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Biography of Catherine de' Medici
Name: Catherine de' Medici
Birth Date: 1519
Death Date: 1589
Place of Birth: Florence, Italy
Nationality: Italian, French
Gender: Female
Occupations: queen, politician
Catherine de' Medici
Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589) was a Machiavellian politician, wife of Henry II of France, and later regent for her three feeble sons at the twilight of the Valois dynasty, who authorized the killing of French Protestants in the notorious Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572.Catherine de' Medici was never able to rule France as its monarch because the Salic Law restricted the succession solely to men. But this Machiavellian--whose father was Machiavelli's patron--ruled it as regent for nearly 30 years, and did everything she could to strengthen the position of her three weak sons on its throne. She presided over, and was partly responsible for, many of the horrors of the French Wars of Religion in the 1560s and 1570s, of which the worst was the massacre of Protestants gathered in Paris to witness the marriage of her daughter Marguerite Valois to Duke Henry of Navarre in 1572. Her calculating …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…There is considerable historical literature on the wars of religion in France. Recommended are James Westfall Thompson, The Wars of Religion in France, 1559-1576 (1909); Franklin Charles Palm, Politics and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France (1927); J. E. Neale, The Age of Catherine de Medici (1943; new ed. 1957); Robert M. Kingdom, Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555-1563 (1956); and Philippe Erlanger, St. Bartholomew's Night: The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew (trans. 1962). The French wars of religion are placed in the context of European politics in J. H. Elliot, Europe Divided: 1559-1598 (1968).Heritier, Jean, Catherine de Medici. St. Martin's Press, 1963.Mahoney, Irene, Madame Catherine, New York: Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1975.Nogueres, Henri, The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. Macmillan, 1962.Soman, Alfred, The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew: Reappraisals andDocuments. Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974.Strage, Mark, Women of Power: The, Life and Times of Catherine deMedici. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.Williamson, Hugh Ros, Catherine de Medici. Viking, 1973.
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