WI Henry IV did not convert?

In otl Henry IV converted to Catholicism after failing to capture Paris before the Duke of Parma could relive it. What if he was able to capture the city in late July early August, and crowned king before the Spanish and the league are able to stop him?
 
Not converting to Catholicism will still be a hindrance for Henri IV. Most of France was Catholic by that point, and France was "the eldest daughter of the Church" in the eyes of many. A Heretic on the French throne wouldn't be well viewed.

Not to mention the Guise were trying to find a way to avoid Henri IV becoming King. They first tried to support his Uncle Charles, Cardinal of Bourbon (they even considered him as King Charles X), but the latter was in the hands of Henri and thought of him as his legitimate King anyway. When the Cardinal of Bourbon died OTL, the Guises tried to use the Estates General to get rid of Salic Law and install someone else on the French throne, probably one of them. It failed OTL because Philip II, who supported the Guises, wished to see the French throne in the hands of his daughter Isabella (who was a niece of Henri II of France) and her future husband Archduke Albert von Hapsburg.

Henri not converting won't give him some of the support he needs to stay on the French throne and counter the Guise and the League's influence. If he doesn't convert, there is a chance the Estates General stay longer in place because they wouldn't want an Heretic as King.
 
Henri probably could have won without converting, but would never have been as secure, and there would have been still more bloodshed, which his conversion averted. A section of Catholics would never have accepted a Protestant as King of France, whereas the Protestants didn't really have anyone else to turn to so, though no doubt feeling betrayed, would continue to support him. So in that sense converting was a win-win for Henri.

The Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, who by the way was Henri II's granddaughter, Henri III's niece, was actually declared Queen Regnant of France by the Paris Parlement. She was also mooted at one time by her father as Queen of England, before eventually ending up ruling the Netherlands with her husband. A remarkable woman, England already had one of its own thanks but France could have done worse.
 
Im trying too find figures on the numbers around 1590, but i can only find ca 750.000+ in 1685.

Looking at the numbers of emigrants, the butterflys alone would be big.
 
But not only Prussia, England, Holland, south africa, amerika...

As well as the impact of the "protestant work moral" on france, its role on the religious wars in germany etc.
 
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