Chatel instead of Ravaillac

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Châtel

WI Chatel had handled himself better with that blade and Henry was assassinated 16 years ahead of schedule?

I also asked that some days ago, but didn't have many replies:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=124253

The first thing I can think is that legally the new king is the 06 years old Prince of Condé, Henry II, who however was regarded as a bastard by Henry IV and the court. Also, you would have the division of France and Navarre once more, as the prince of Condé didn't have rights to the Navarrese throne. The new monarch of Navarre is the Protestant Catherine, sister of Henry IV. If she dies childless than the throne goes to the Rohan family, who also were Protestants. We might see Navarre remaining as a small, independent and Protestant kingdom in Southern France.
 
I also asked that some days ago, but didn't have many replies:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=124253

The first thing I can think is that legally the new king is the 06 years old Prince of Condé, Henry II, who however was regarded as a bastard by Henry IV and the court. Also, you would have the division of France and Navarre once more, as the prince of Condé didn't have rights to the Navarrese throne. The new monarch of Navarre is the Protestant Catherine, sister of Henry IV. If she dies childless than the throne goes to the Rohan family, who also were Protestants. We might see Navarre remaining as a small, independent and Protestant kingdom in Southern France.

So France enters a religious civil war? How about extending slightly the lifespan of Charles Cardinal de Bourbon? Could he become King Charles X?
 
So France enters a religious civil war? How about extending slightly the lifespan of Charles Cardinal de Bourbon? Could he become King Charles X?

The problem is that if you keep the Cardinal alive then it would change so many things that the death of Henry IV is also butterflied.
 
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