In early modern France, there was conflict between Catholic and Protestant noble families over who would succeed the throne. Henry III was killed, allowing Henry of Navarre to take the throne as Henry IV, but he had to convert to Catholicism to gain acceptance from the predominantly Catholic city of Paris. Henry IV then issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598, granting religious toleration and rights to Huguenots in an attempt to end the civil wars over religion that had plagued France.