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Catherine de' Medici

500: Catherine de’ Medici – Patron of the arts and follower of the occult

April 19, 2019 Amy Eloise Kelly 3

To celebrate the 500th birthday of the formidable Catherine de’ Medici, we will be posting seven articles over the next seven days about her. This is the seventh and last one, and it will focus on Catherine as patron of the arts and follower of the occult. Read part six here. Though she married into [read more]

Catherine de' Medici

500: Catherine de’ Medici – The Mother of three Kings

April 17, 2019 Amy Eloise Kelly 2

To celebrate the 500th birthday of the formidable Catherine de’ Medici, we will be posting seven articles over the next seven days about her. This is the fifth, and it will focus on the relationships with her three surviving sons – who all became King of France. Read part four here. When Catherine was married [read more]

Catherine de' Medici

500: Catherine de’ Medici and Diane de Poitiers – A bitter rivalry

April 15, 2019 Amy Eloise Kelly 0

To celebrate the 500th birthday of the formidable Catherine de’ Medici, we will be posting seven articles over the next seven days about her. This is the third, and it will focus on the rivalry with her husband’s mistress Diane de Poitiers. Read part two here. Catherine de’ Medici, the niece of Pope Clement VII, [read more]

Marguerite Louise d’Orléans

Marguerite Louise of Orléans and the end of the Medici dynasty

November 30, 2017 Amy Eloise Kelly 3

Marguerite Louise of Orléans was born in July 1645 to Gaston, Duke of Orléans and his second wife Marguerite of Lorraine. Her father was the brother of King Louis XIII of France, making Marguerite the granddaughter, niece and cousin of three French kings. Marguerite’s older half-sister was La Grande Mademoiselle; a high ranking heiress at [read more]




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