AUDENARDE
Tapestry panel from Oudenaarde (Flanders),... Lot 18
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AUDENARDE
Tapestry panel from Oudenaarde (Flanders), from the end of the 16th century (around 1580).
The abjuration of Henry IV.
In wool and silk.
Borders with seedlings of birds, plants and flowering sprays and fruit compositions in pastel tones. Nice freshness of colors, good general condition.
Restorations of maintenance, missing the two wide borders at the top and bottom.
Ht. 235 cm - Width 235 cm
In order to become King of France, and to put an end to the Wars of Religion, Henri IV decided to solemnly abjure Protestantism on July 25, 1593 before the Archbishop of Bourges, Renaud de Beaune, in the Basilica of Saint-Denis. The future King converted to Catholicism and was baptized to claim his throne, of which he was the legitimate heir, since the death of Henri III in 1589.
At the beginning of 1593, when King Henri IV had already attempted two sieges of Paris, Charles de Mayenne convened the Estates General at the Louvre Palace to elect a Catholic King. King Philip II favoured the access to the throne for his daughter, the infanta Isabelle Claire Eugénie, but these states general rejected her election to the throne thanks to the Salic law still in force on 20 June 1593. The parliament of Paris supporting Mayenne's election to the throne of France forbade Henry IV to be crowned without his authorization. In response to this, supported by his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées, Renaud de Beaune presided over the ceremony. Pope Clement VIII refuses to convert him because for him, he is still a Protestant. When he entered the abbey of Saint-Denis, a great silence fell and the king walked towards my lord of Beaune, archbishop of Bourges, who said7 : "Who are you? - I am the king! - What are you asking for? - To be received into the bosom of the
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