On this day in history, 18th August in 1572, Henry of Navarre, leader of the Huguenots and the future King Henry IV of France, married Margaret of Valois, daughter of King Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
This royal wedding was meant to bring peace, to to heal the religious divisions between Protestants and Catholics in France, but, instead, there was an assassination followed by a bloody massacre, the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which not only affected the city of Paris, but towns and cities across France..
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