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21 de nov. de 2023 · Catherine de' Medici: Death and Legacy Catherine fell ill in the last few months of 1588, eventually succumbing to a lung infection in January of 1589. Her legacy is a mixed one.
8 de jun. de 2018 · Catherine de' Medici (1519–89) Queen of France, wife of Henry II and daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici. She exerted considerable political influence after her husband's and first son's deaths in 1559. In 1560 she became regent for her second son, Charles IX , and remained principal adviser until his death (1574).
5 de ene. de 2019 · January 5, 1589 – Death of Catherine de’ Medici. Yes, this was across the proverbial pond from the Tudors, but Catherine de’ Medici, as Queen of France, influenced the Tudor world the way Francis I had before her. Admittedly, Francis and Henry were contemporaries in a way that Catherine and Elizabeth were not.
Catherine de’ Medici - Massacre, France, Politics: The issue of war or peace in the Netherlands was closely linked with the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day in Paris on August 23–24, 1572. Upon this occasion, following an abortive attempt against the life of the admiral Gaspard de Coligny, he and a number of his principal lieutenants, together with several thousand Huguenots, were ...
Catherine eventually gave birth to ten children, beginning in 1543. The death of her husband's older brother in 1536 made Henry and Catherine next in line for the throne. Catherine's husband, now Henry II, had been cared for at age eleven by Diane de Poitiers, who was twenty years his senior.
Definition. Catherine de' Medici (l. 1519-1589) was the queen of France, mother of three kings and two queens and, between 1559 and c. 1576, the most powerful woman in France and, possibly, all of Europe. She was the strength behind the French throne for almost 20 years, maintaining the monarchy through the chaos of the French Wars of Religion ...
5 de abr. de 2024 · Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florentine statesman and patron of arts and letters. The grandson of Cosimo de’ Medici, he was the most brilliant of the Medici family. He ruled Florence with his younger brother, Giuliano (1453–78), from 1469 to 1478 and, after the latter’s assassination, was sole ruler from 1478 to 1492.
