Introduction Huguenot church in France emerged from a protestant movement that was based on teachings of John Calvin, a protestant reformer. This saw many powerful people become Huguenots in France. The France ruling dynasty of the Valois family including Henry II (1547-1559) and the sons King Francis II (1559-1560), King Charles IX (1560-1574) and king Henry III) were all staunch Catholics who sometimes adopted policies to tame the growth of the movement of Huguenots and at the same time tried to limit the growth of nobility in political prowess. The Huguenots quest for religious independence placed them against the kings of France which led to a series of wars; these wars were referred to as ‘Wars of Religion’ (1562-1598) (Sidney 186). In the early times prior to the late 1500’s, in France, everybody in the kingdom was required to follow a given set of religious beliefs that were in accordance to those of the king or the lord of the land. Anyone who did not follow these set of beliefs was either exiled from the community or killed. The Edict of Nantes was a treaty with rights on religion and the freedom to worship that was signed and passed by King Henry IV (1589-1610) of Navarre to the ‘commoners’ on the 13 th of April, 1589 to provide them with religious freedom. King Henry IV was a protestant and he led the French ‘commoners’ cause when wars on religion were common and The Edict of Nantes marked the end of wars on religion. Before he became King, Henry IV had embraced Protestantism but had to convert to catholic in order to realize the position of king in France since the citizen majority (up to 90%) comprised of the Catholic family (Mark, 399). Henry IV of France Henry IV of France was the writer of the Edict of Nantes which brought the civil wars over religion to an end in his kingdom. He lived between 1553 and 1610. He was king of France between 1589 and 1610. He was assassinated by a fanatic in 1610. Due to his great contribution to ending religious wars in France, he is still recognized as one of the greatest leaders of France. He was a protestant until he was about to be king of France. Since ninety percent of the France population was catholic, he decided to convert to catholic in 1593 in order to satisfy the wishes of the majority and consequently be in a better position to secure the throne and be King of France (Hunt, 547). After his conversion, Henry IV used the phrase, “Paris is worth a mass” to meant he was willing to sacrifice his religious beliefs so as to save the French kingdom from the wars it was experiencing. He was crowned king of France in 1589 following the death of Henry III and signed the Edict of Nantes in 1598; this brought to an end the wars of religion in France effectively and gave Henry IV an easy time to develop France (Nantais 5) The Edict of Nantes Prior to the signing of the Edict of Nantes, Protestants in France were exposed to massacre and massive deaths. The Catholic French government was assisted by papal and the Spanish troops during the religious and civil wars against the Protestants. Many agreements of peace were reached but they were never followed. At one point for example, Huguenots were guaranteed freedom of public religious worship, balanced political privileges with the Catholics and security.