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LONDON — After nine months of tests, researchers in France have identified the head of France’s King Henry IV, who was assassinated in 1610 at age 57. The tests helped identify the monarch’s embalmed head, which has shuffled between private collections since it disappeared during the French Revolution in 1793.
The results of the research were published online today in the medical journal BMJ.
Next year, France will hold a national Mass and funeral for Henry IV. His head will then be reburied alongside the rest of the country’s former kings and queens in the Basilica of Saint Denis.
Denver Post wire services
