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1 day ago · The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee, Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici during the first half of the 15th century.
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Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (Italian: [loˈrɛntso de...
- List of Popes From The Medici Family
There were four popes who were related to the Medici. Pope...
- Borgia
The House of Borgia (/ ˈ b ɔːr (d) ʒ ə / BOR-zhə, BOR-jə,...
- Cosimo De
Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (27 September 1389 – 1 August...
- Anna Maria Luisa De
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (11 August 1667 – 18 February...
- Marie De
Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; Italian: Maria...
- Strozzi Family
Strozzi family Coat of Arms. The House of Strozzi is the...
- Gian Gastone
Gian Gastone de' Medici (born Giovanni Battista Gastone; 25...
- Mugello
Mugello within Metropolitan Florence Countryside near...
- Sforza
History. The first son of Muzio Attendolo Sforza, Francesco...
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2 days ago · They were initially supported by Catherine de' Medici, whose January 1562 Edict of Saint-Germain was strongly opposed by the Guise faction and led to an outbreak of widespread fighting in March. She later hardened her stance and backed the 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris , which resulted in Catholic mobs killing between 5,000 and ...
5 days ago · After Francis II died in December 1560, Mary had to return many of the French crown jewels to Claude de Beaune, Dame du Gauguier, a lady-in-waiting and treasurer to Catherine de' Medici. The diamonds were described in detail and valued in the inventory. [46]
2 days ago · The life and times of Catherine de' Medici, by renowned scholar of the Italian Renaissance Mary Hollingsworth. Catherine de' Medici lived her life at the storm centre of European and French politics in an age of religious conflict.
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3 days ago · English | June 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 1800244762 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 29.97 MB. A new biography of Catherine de' Medici, the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe, whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable – and remarkably traduced – woman. History is rarely kind to women of power ...
3 days ago · History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de' Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings during that country's long sequence of sectarian wars in the second half of the sixteenth century.
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4 days ago · Margaret of Valois (1553–1615) was a fascinating woman: the last surviving member of the House of Valois, daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de Medici. She married her distant cousin, King Henry of Navarre, and after all of her brothers died without heirs her husband inherited the throne as the first Bourbon King of France.
