By July 1562, the French Wars of Religion truly commenced.The Huguenots actually aimed at seizing the king and controlling him through one of their leaders, the noble Prince of Condé, whom they wished to have appointed chief advisor to the Crown. For Catherine, the task of government was not to promote eternal salvation, but to provide as much order and peace as possible on earth, even if that meant the use of deception and violence to defeat those who would kill others in order to promote their religions. En 1533, la jeune Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medicis, âgée de 14 ans, quitte Florence pour épouser Henri II, fils de François 1er, roi de France. Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) was a Machiavellian politician, wife of Henry II of France, and later rege… Henry IV (France) (1553–1610; Ruled 1589–1610) Catherine de' Medici Catherine had reached the twilight of her political career. Casualtiesmounted, and Antoine of Bourbon, king of Navarre, died in 1562, while Francis, duke of Guise, died early in 1563. Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) was a Machiavellian politician, wife of Henry II of France, and later rege… Catherine de' Medici Charles IX then sanctioned the slaughter of the Huguenot nobility. The Guise household accepted Catherine's choice, for, aside from his reputation as a Renaissance scholar, he had dedicated a number of his poems to the House of Guise. FALCONES Ildefonso Though arch-Catholics, following the Guise cardinal of Lorraine, ignored edicts of toleration and fueled the flames of conflict, they naturally fought against rebellious Huguenots who had attempted to seize the person of the king. CHF 13.40 In 1568, she dismissed the chancellor L'Hospital, who had increasingly come to be identified with a policy of toleration and coexistence.
At this time, Catherine was hated and distrusted by both Catholics and Protestants, but Henry of Navarre saw merit in her renewed call for compromise, agreeing to the opening of negotiations for peace in 1579. CHF 13.90

Dans son étude Sur Catherine de Médicis, (1830-1842), Honoré de Balzac la met en scène sous le nom de : « Madeleine de la Tour-de-Boulogne, mère de Catherine de Médicis [1] », et il précise que C'est par sa mère que Catherine était si riche et alliée à tant de familles ; car, chose étrange ! Henry of Bourbon and some others were spared by converting to Catholicism, but throughout the rest of France some 10,000 Huguenots were slaughtered in the next few days. On August 23, Catherine and her supporters deliberated with Charles IX, somehow convincing him that the Huguenots were not only threatening to take justice into their own hands where the duke of Guise was concerned, but that they also intended to overthrow Charles himself. On August 25, the Crown even issued an edict calling for the massacre to stop, but the genie had been let out of the bottle. To the present day, it is not clear whether Catherine was part of the plot to eliminate Coligny, though it is quite clear that she opposed his growing influence over her son and that she planned to capitalize on the assassination attempt. Though Catherine's father bore the impressive title of duke of Urbino, the Medici family's roots were mercantile rather than noble. Catherine took her position quite seriously, silencing Catholic sermons which denounced the king's alliance with Protestants against fellow Catholics. Femme de lettres française (1599-1678). Cependant, " avec son visage aux traits épais, son teint très clair, sa bouche lippue, ses paupières lourdes, ses yeux globuleux, [elle] n'a rien d'une beauté. Then, as the year 1572 opened, Charles IX, now in his early 20s and no longer in need of an official regent, apparently intended to strike out on his own and initiate a policy which blatantly favored the Huguenot minority in their foreign policy aims. This was the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, August 24, 1572, and it cannot be doubted that Catherine played a major role in its implementation.
Above all others, she targeted Antoine, duke of Bourbon and king of Navarre, a small subordinate protectorate of the French monarchy just north of the Pyrenees. Catherine readily told the royal council that he would thus occupy first place in the council, advising the queen regent and her son in all matters. He was born in the town of Pau, the… HENRY III (FRANCE) (1551–1589), king of France. CHF 18.60

This alliance and the Guise assassinations eventually cost Henry III his life at the hands of a Catholic assassin, but it provided Henry of Bourbon with the legitimacy he needed to ascend to the throne of France that same year. Then, four days after the wedding, on August 22, an assassination attempt, most likely masterminded by Henry, the new duke of Guise, was made on the life of Coligny, the Huguenot aristocrat and leader.

In March 1560, the post of chancellor to the king was vacant, and Catherine proposed Michel de L'Hospital, a man who had been trained in law at the University of Padua in Italy, wrote poetry, and favored the development of a compromise where Catholics and Huguenots were concerned. The Huguenots received 100,000 crowns and 6,000 men from In the midst of this chaos, Catherine de Medici proved that she was quite capable of taking to the battlefield to inspire troops and protect her son from capture by the Huguenots. Druon Maurice