The Edict of Nantes was issued in April 1598 by King Henri IV of France. It was the last in a series of pacification edicts from the time of the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598; Religion, wars of), intended to bring about peaceful coexistence among the religious parties. Particularly noteworthy among these legal texts were [3]: the Edict of Saint-Germain, also called the Edict of January or the Edict of Toleration (Regent Catherine de Medici in the name of Charles IX, Janu…