Bartholomew's Day massacre kills Henry?

The Bartholomew's Day massacre was the Catholic mob slaughter of Huguenots at Henry's wedding, and he himself was almost killed. What would have happened if the future King of France was killed during this event?
 
No. The Guises are only related to the Capets maternally, with no paternal relations at all.

The new Bourbon claimants is--Cardinal Bourbon, and Henri, Prince of Conde, assuming he survives the Massacre. If he does not, then his his brother Francois, the historical first Prince of Conti becomes a new claimant.
 
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Prehaps a more interesting POD surrounding Bartholomew's Day Massacre, would be that Francis Walsingham (Elizabeth I's ambassador/Spymaster in France) died doing it. Whether he's actually killed by the mob or he is assassinated or the undefined illness that he got in 1570, and suffered from to his death, is the actual culprit is not important, mainly as noone would believe it not being foul play, specially if it also involved Henry of Navarre dying as OP suggested.

Suddenly we would have a very unamused English Queen (and to a lesser degree every other non-catholic Christian Rulers and prehaps even a couple of Catholic Rulers), ready to throw everything (and the mandatory kitchen sink) at stopping the religiously motivated killings, and if some Catholics die, then so be it.
 
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