Marie de’ Medici — Erosophia Encyclopedia

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Marie de’ Medici — Queen of France by marriage to Henry IV, regent from 1610 to 1617

A Florentine married for her dowry to a king who did not love her, she became regent the very day of his murder and governed for seven years with an Italian favourite. Driven out by her son, exiled, in revolt then reconciled, she ended by quarrelling with the minister she had given him, and died outside the kingdom. (Editorial synthesis)

Marie de’ Medici was born in Florence. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)

Marie de’ Medici died on 3 July 1642. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)

Marie de’ Medici died in Cologne. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)

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