Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; Italian: Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife...
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Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, pronounced [kateˈriːna de ˈmɛːditʃi]; French: Catherine de Médicis, pronounced [katʁin də medisis];...
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that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his son Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th...
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Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine...
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appointed Charles of Spain—whose mother, Elisabeth Farnese, was a great-granddaughter of Margherita de' Medici—Gian Gastone's heir. Charles later transferred...
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Pope Clement VII (redirect from Jules de Médicis)
Pope Clement VII (Latin: Clemens VII; Italian: Clemente VII; born Giulio de' Medici; 26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534) was head of the Catholic Church and...
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Carlo di Cosimo de' Medici (1428 or 1430 – 29 May 1492) was an Italian priest. A member of the powerful Medici family, he became a senior clergyman and...
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Pope Pius IV (redirect from Giovanni Angelo Cardinal de Medici)
the younger brother of condottiero Gian Giacomo Medici, and the maternal uncle of Charles Borromeo. Medici studied philosophy and medicine in Pavia. After...
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The Wedding by Proxy of Maria de’ Medici to King Henry IV The Disembarkation at Marsailles The Meeting of Marie de Médicis and Henri IV at Lyon The Birth...
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(1576–1577). For Catherine de Médicis he built the Hôtel de Soissons, (1572–84; demolished in 1748), of which only the Medici's column remains. His treatise...
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Catherine de' Medici was patron for building projects including the Valois chapel at the Basilica of Saint-Denis, the Tuileries Palace, and the Hôtel de la Reine...
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The Serpent Queen (category Cultural depictions of Catherine de' Medici)
American historical drama television series about the life of Catherine de' Medici, the 16th century Queen of France, as portrayed by actress Samantha Morton...
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Gaston, Duke of Orléans (redirect from Jean-Baptiste Gaston, duc d'Orléans)
(Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de' Medici. As a son...
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Fémina 1975) Michel Butel (Prix Médicis 1977) Jocelyne François (Prix Fémina 1980) François-Olivier Rousseau (Prix Médicis and Prix Marcel Proust 1981) Nicolas...
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Marie de Médicis escaped from her confinement in the Château de Blois, becoming the titular leader of an aristocratic rebellion. The king and the duc de Luynes...
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Constable Charles de Bourbon's plot against King Francis I, but did not know at the time that his father-in-law was involved as well. In 1524, Jean de Poitiers...
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extravaganza, with René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt 1831: Les Deux Mirabeau, vaudeville anecdotique in 1 act 1831: Médicis et Machiavel, drama in 3...
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daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici, and Duchess of Lorraine by marriage to Charles III, Duke of Lorraine. Claude was born in Fontainebleau...
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won second great Prix de Rome and in 1887 the first grand prix of Rome, after which he spent three years at the villa Médicis. In 1900, he designed the...
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Jean de Serres (French: [sɛʁ]; Latin: Joannes Serranus; 1540–1598) was a major French historian and an advisor to King Henry IV during the Wars of Religion...
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Margaret of Valois (redirect from Margaret de Valois)
daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici and the sister of Kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. Her union with the King of Navarre...
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to Catherine de Medici, and for Eleanor of Austria between the years of 1532 and 1543. Born in 1510, Françoise was the daughter of Jean IV of Longwy and...
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Diplomatique De Bertrand De Salignac De La Mothe Fenelon, vol. 6, (1840), 229-231, 3 July 1571 See Zvereva, Les Clouet de Catherine de Médicis, 2002. Blunt...
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by Thomas de Leu Catherine de Médicis Sir Francis Drake, after Jean Rabel [fr] Charles III de Bourbon Religious subjects engraved by Thomas de Leu God creates...
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The Casa de Velázquez is a French school in Spain modelled on the Villa Médicis in Rome, and Villa Abd-el-Tif in Algeria. Like the Prix de Rome bursary...
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Jardin du Luxembourg (redirect from Jardins de Luxembourg)
Hippomenes by Jean Antoine Injalbert Bust of Charles Baudelaire, by Pierre Félix Masseau Polyphemus Surprising Acis and Galatea, the Fontaine Médicis, by Auguste...
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to Queen Catherine de' Medici from 1547 until 1560 and was the regent of the Principality of Sedan from 1553 to 1559. Françoise de Brézé was born around...
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Republic of Florence (category House of Medici)
of the city, aided by Emperor Charles V. Pope Clement VII, himself a Medici, appointed his relative Alessandro de' Medici as the first "Duke of the Florentine...
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entertainments, sometimes called magnificences, were laid on by Catherine de' Medici, the queen consort of France from 1547 to 1559 and queen mother from 1559...
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the Conversion of St. Paul; among his woodcuts, the Entrée de Henry II et Catherine de Médicis à Rouen (1551). He died at Sens, but the date of his death...
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