Pope Clement VIII accepts the submission of the French King, Henri IV, in St....

The king's representative was Bishop Jacques Davy du Perron (1556-1618) who is depicted kneeling at the pope's feet and being chastised with a rod as punishment in place of the king; König Heinrich IV von Frankreich; Henry IV (1553-1610) ruled as King of France from 1589-1610 and as Henry III of Navarre from 1572-1610; said to have declared that Paris vaut bien une messe ("Paris is well worth a Mass"), thus explaining his conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism, which was essential to his successful claim of the throne of France; Pope Clement VIII ( 1536-1605), born Ippolito Aldobrandini, was Pope from 30 January 1592 to 3 March 1605;