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On April 13 1519 Catherine de Medici was born in Florence.
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Catherine and Henry get married when she was only 14 years old.
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Henry then became king and Catherine was Queen.
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Charles IX was born
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Henry III was born.
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Francis was born!
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Henry signed the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis with the Holy Roman Empire and England, ending a long period of Italian wars.
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Henry's death. Which meant Catherine would no longer be the Queen. This made Catherine the mother of King Francis II.
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Catherine and the chancellor advocated this policy to an assembly of notables at Fontainebleau.
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Francis II dies and Catherine become regent on behalf of her 10 year old son King Charles IX and was granted powers.
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a spy called Poltrot de Méré fired an arquebus into the back of the Duke of Guise, at the siege of Orléans.
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she came to be blamed for the excessive persecutions carried out under her sons' rule, in particular for the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572, in which thousands of Huguenots were killed in Paris and throughout France.
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King Charles IX died and it left Henry III with the power. Catherine played a big role in the reign of Henry III.
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She passed away on January 5th 1589 in France.
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At this time Catherine was rebuired at Saint-Denis.
