Edict of Nantes(French Édit De Nantes), was a law made at Nantes in the city of Brittany on the day of April 13 in 1598, by Henry IV of France. This granted a large measure of religious liberty to all of his subjects who were protestant, otherwise the Huguenots. The edict was followed by Henry IV’s own switch from Huguenot Calvinism to Roman Catholicism bringing the end of violent Wars of Religion beginning in 1562. The edict is one of the first decrees of tolerance of religion in Europe and granted brand new religious rights to the minority of French Protestants.
