Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Charles IX (Charles Maximilien; 27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) was King of France from 1560 until his death in 1574. He ascended the French throne upon the death of his brother Francis II in 1560, and as such was the penultimate monarch of the House of Valois. Charles' reign saw the culmination of decades of tension between Protestants and ...
His second son, Charles IX, had no legitimate sons to inherit. Following the premature death of his fourth son Hercule François and the assassination of his third son, the childless Henry III , France was plunged into a succession crisis over which distant cousin of the king would inherit the throne.
A Chronicle of the Reign of Charles IX (French: Chronique du règne de Charles IX) is an 1829 historical novel by the French writer Prosper Mérimée. [1] It portrays events leading up to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572 during the reign of Charles IX. The novel takes place at the time of the French Wars of Religion.
A map of Charles IX's grand tour of France Charles IX in 1561 by François Clouet Catherine de' Medici with her children in 1561: Francis, Charles IX, Marguerite and Henry. The grand tour of France was a royal progress around France by Charles IX of France, set up by his mother Catherine de' Medici to show him his kingdom, which had just been ravaged by the first of the French Wars of Religion.
She was Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II and the mother of French kings Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III. The years during which her sons reigned have been called "the age of Catherine de' Medici" since she had extensive, albeit at times varying, influence on the political life of France.
Charles IX of France, who was 22 years old in August 1572, by François Clouet. The impending marriage led to the gathering of a large number of well-born Protestants in Paris, but Paris was a violently anti-Huguenot city, and Parisians, who tended to be extreme Catholics, found their presence unacceptable.
Elisabeth of Austria (5 July 1554 – 22 January 1592) was Queen of France from 1570 to 1574 as the wife of King Charles IX. A member of the House of Habsburg, she was the daughter of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain.
December 5 – Seventeen-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is widowed by the death of her first husband, King Francis II of France. Her mother-in-law, Catherine de' Medici, becomes regent of France. December 6 – Charles IX of France succeeds his elder brother, Francis II, at the age of ten.