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	Catherine de' Medici - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Born in Florence, Italy, she was a daughter of Lorenzo II de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and a French princess, Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne.
		Having lost both her parents at an early age, Catherine was sent to a convent to be educated; she was only fourteen when she was married (on October 28, 1533), at Marseille, to the duke of Orléans, whose elder brother François was alive at the time, but who would become King Henry II of France.
		Catherine, thinking her influence menaced, sought to regain it, first by the murder of Coligny, and, after that failed, by the St.
	voyager.in /Catherine_de_Medici (1296 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Catherine De' Medici
		Catherine was obliged to allow the Guises to quell the conspiracy of Amboise, March, 1560, and for a few months to exercise a sort of Catholic dictatorship.
		The Bayonne interview between Catherine and the Duke of Alba (June, 1565) caused a renewal of trouble; the Protestants spread the rumour that the queen mother had conspired against them with the King of Spain, and a serious resort to arms was under way.
		Catherine, ever ambitious, laid claim to the crown of Portugal for a member of her family, and dreamed in vain of giving the crown of France to her daughter's son, the Marquis de Pont a Mousson; but the matter rested between the Guises and the Bourbons.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03443a.htm (1490 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Catherine de' Medici (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		CATHERINE DE' MEDICI [Catherine de' Medici], 1519-89, queen of France, daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, duke of Urbino.
		After the defeat of royal troops by the Huguenot leader Gaspard de Coligny, Catherine agreed (1570) to the peace of St. Germain.
		When the first attempt failed, she took part in planning the massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day (1572) in which Coligny and hundreds of other Protestants were murdered.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Cathrin-deM.asp (485 words)

	Catherine d'Medici
		Catherine de' Medici was born to the Medici family of Florence in 1519.
		Other than Francis, Catherine had not a friend in all of France and was not looked highly upon by the French people, especially the nobles, who called her "the Italian woman".
		In 1559, Catherine's husband died in a tournament accident and her eldest son Francis II came to the throne.
	departments.kings.edu /womens_history/cathymedici.html (1769 words)

	Who's Who in 16th century France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Destined to be the last of the Valois, he nevertheless kept his throne for 15 years in the face of chaos.
		After François' death they opposed the tolerant policy of Catherine de'Medici [queen mother] and provoked the outbreak of the Wars of Religion (1562).
		The wife of King Henri II, daughter of the Florentine ducal family, and niece of Pope Leo X, three of Catherine's four sons came successively to the throne of France after the premature death of their father in a tournament accident (François II, Charles IX, Henri III).
	www.lepg.org /people.htm (1892 words)

	Catherine de' Medici
		, Catherine agreed (1570) to the peace of St. Germain.
		Catherine de' Medici - Medici, Catherine de': see Catherine de' Medici.
		Francis II, king of France - Francis II, 1544–60, king of France (1559–60), son of King Henry II and Catherine de'...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0810862.html (327 words)

	Royal Family HQ - French Royal Family
		Very interesting article featuring 14 photos of Catherine Oxenberg and her trip
		Born 13 April, 1519; died 5 January, 1589; she was the daughter of Lorenzo de'
		Medici (II), Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de la Tour d' Auvergne who,...
	www.royalfamilyhq.com /frenchroyalfamily (719 words)

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