31 - HENRY IV. Document signed “Henry,” countersigned by his Secretary of State Nicolas de Neufville, future Marquis de Villeroy. Paris, June 17, 1605. One folio page on parchment; mounted under glass.

HENRY IV. Document signed “Henry,” countersigned by his Secretary of State Nicolas de Neufville, future Marquis de Villeroy. Paris, June 17, 1605. One folio page on parchment; mounted under glass. PENSION CERTIFICATE FOR ODET DE LA NOUE, who served as an officer in the Protestant armies against the Duke of Alba in the Netherlands, and later in the royal army of Henry IV. He participated in the negotiations that led to the promulgation of the Edict of Nantes, and would eventually carry out a diplomatic mission to The Hague due to his family ties to the House of Orange. “... The King... DESIRING TO RECOGNIZE, IN RECOGNITION OF THE GOOD AND PLEASANT SERVICES THAT MR. DE LA NOUE HAS PREVIOUSLY RENDERED TO HIM, to provide him with the means to continue, His Majesty has granted him the sum of three thousand six hundred livres tournois as a pension, to be drawn each year from both the ordinary and extraordinary funds of his savings, and intends that the said Monsieur de La Noue be placed on the list of his pensioners and henceforth be paid the said three thousand six hundred livres in pension annually, beginning on the first day of the present year... ”