Henry is buried at the Saint Denis…

Henry is buried at the Saint Denis Basilica.

His reign is to have a lasting impact on the French people for generations afterwards.

Henry’s widow, Marie de' Medici, is to serve as Regent for their nine-year-old son, Louis XIII, until 1617.

Ravaillac in the course of his trial has frequently been tortured in an attempt to make him identify accomplices, but he denies that he had been prompted by anyone or had any accomplices.

The fortuitous combination of his knowing the king's route and the blockage of traffic that put the king within reach excites speculation.

The king was on his way to visit Sully, who lay ill in the Arsenal; his purpose was to make final preparations for imminent military intervention in the disputed succession to Jülich-Cleves-Berg after the death of Duke John William, an intervention on behalf of a Calvinist candidate that would have brought him in conflict with the Catholic Habsburgs.

Ravaillac seems to have been apprised of some such development; in his tortured mind "he had seen that the king wanted to make war on the pope."

He is taken on May 27 to the Place de Grève, scalded with burning sulfur, molten lead and boiling oil and resin, his flesh then torn by pincers, and his body pulled apart by four horses, a method of execution reserved for regicides.

Following his execution, Ravaillac's parents are forced into exile and the rest of his family is ordered never to use the name "Ravaillac" again.