Next year, France will hold a national Mass and funeral for Henry IV. His head will then be reburied alongside the rest of the country's former kings and queens, in the Basilica of Saint Denis.

Remembered as Good King Henry or Henry the Great, King Henry IV of France was one of his country's most popular monarchs and was celebrated as an example of what a king should be. On what would ...

In 2010, researchers used digital facial reconstruction on the head, which had been in the hands of private collectors, to identify it as the "good King Henry," who ruled France from 1589 to 1610.

But in 1610, Henry IV, like his predecessor, lost his life to an assassin. The king was buried in the Basilica of Saint Denis in northern Paris, where his body stayed until 1793.

Even a mushroom-like growth on his nose and evidence of a pierced right ear seemed to point to King Henry IV. Though beloved by most of his people, the Bourbon monarch was assassinated in 1610 ...

Even a mushroom-like growth on his nose and evidence of a pierced right ear seemed to point to Henry IV. Although beloved by most of his people, the Bourbon monarch was assassinated in 1610 after ...

"New research refutes claim that mummified head belonged to King Henry IV of France." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 October 2013. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 10 / 131009130001.htm>.

In February 1610, the English chargé d' affaires reported that Henry IV of France, having decided to go to war in the Spanish Netherlands, had lately been measured for a new suit of armour, and had ...