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Catherine de' Medici
Orphaned of both parents at birth in Florence, she was married at fourteen by Pope ...
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Henry II
The second son of Francis I, he spent part of his childhood as a hostage ...
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Francis, Duke of Guise
Nicknamed “le Balafré” (the Scarred) for a wound received at the Siege of Boulogne, he ...
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Henry I, Duke of Guise
The son of François de Guise, he avenged his father’s assassination by having Gaspard de ...
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Henry III
Catherine de’ Medici’s favourite son, he distinguished himself as a military commander at just eighteen, ...
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Henry of Navarre
Raised partly in the Protestant faith by his mother Jeanne d’Albret, he became King of ...
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Anne de Montmorency
A childhood companion of Francis I, he built a distinguished military career under that king ...
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Louis I, Prince of Condé
The younger brother of Antoine de Bourbon, he was implicated in the 1560 Amboise conspiracy ...
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Antoinette of Bourbon
The wife, from 1513, of Claude of Lorraine, first Duke of Guise, she bore about ...
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Charles IX
The second of Catherine de’ Medici’s sons to reign, he came to the throne at ...
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Elisabeth of Valois
The eldest daughter of Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici, she was first betrothed to ...
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Francis II
The eldest son of Catherine de’ Medici and Henry II, he married Mary, Queen of ...
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Jeanne d'Albret
The daughter of Marguerite de Navarre and niece of Francis I, she inherited the throne ...
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Margaret of Valois
A daughter of Catherine de’ Medici and sister to three kings of France, she married ...
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Antoine of Navarre
First Prince of the Blood as a direct descendant of Saint Louis, he became King ...
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Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon
The younger brother of Antoine de Bourbon and uncle of Henri de Navarre, Archbishop of ...
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Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
The younger brother of François de Guise, Archbishop of Reims from his teenage years and ...
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Claude of Valois
The second daughter of Catherine de’ Medici, she married Charles III of Lorraine in 1559 ...
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Francis, Duke of Anjou
The youngest of Catherine de’ Medici’s children, his face scarred by smallpox, he nursed a ...
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Gaspard de Coligny
A nephew of Anne de Montmorency, he converted to Protestantism in the late 1550s and ...
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Henry I, Prince of Condé
The son of Louis I of Condé, he became Prince of Condé at seventeen after ...
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Michel de l'HĂ´pital
A trained jurist, he distinguished himself in diplomatic missions before being appointed Chancellor of France ...
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Charles, Duke of Mayenne
The second son of François de Guise and younger brother of Henri de Guise, he ...
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Claude, Duke of Aumale
The third son of Antoinette de Bourbon and brother of François de Guise and the ...
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Diane de Poitiers
The widow of the Grand Seneschal of Normandy and twenty years Henry II’s senior, she ...
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Elisabeth of Austria
The daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II, this Habsburg archduchess married Charles IX in ...
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François de Montmorency
The eldest son of Anne de Montmorency, Marshal of France and Governor of Paris, he ...
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Henri I de Montmorency
The second son of Anne de Montmorency, he initially fought in the Catholic camp at ...
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Louise of Lorraine
Descended from a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine, that of Vaudémont, she was ...
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Made Queen of Scots at six days old, she was sent to the French court ...
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Philip II of Spain
The son of Charles V, he inherited a vast empire spanning Spain, the Netherlands, and ...