[2] At the Battle of Moncontour on 3 October 1569, Henri was wounded in the face and was forced to retreat.

[4] In his escape from Paris, Henri was joined by Theodore Beza, who published his Du droit des magistrats sur leurs sujets in Germany.

[5] By 1573 the Huguenot cause had made some political gains in the Midi, consequently Henri was assigned "governor general and protector".

[7] During the sixth war of religion, he commanded the forces that captured Brouage and allowed English aid for the Huguenots.

[8] And, it would be Henri, angered by Catholic resistance to his governorship of Picardy, who started the seventh war of religion by seizing the town of La Fère in November 1579.