Catherine de Medici ... Eleven years later he was crowned Henry II of France. Unfortunately it was to be a short reign as Henry died in a jousting accident in 1559, ...

De Heere, as it happens, was one of many artists whom Catherine de’ Medici hired in her role as patroness of the arts and architecture during the French Renaissance, a beneficent role that Ms ...

Starz The Serpent Queen tells the true story of Catherine de Medici, queen of France from 1547-1559. ... the second son of ...

What Catherine didn’t realize was that the teenaged Henry was already in the thrall of the 35-year-old Diane De Poitiers. Catherine de’ Medici would grow into a shrewd, dangerous, and powerful ...

Born Giulio de' Medici, Catherine's uncle took the name Clement VII upon becoming pope in 1523. ... Catherine and Henry ascended to the French throne upon Francis’ death in March 1547.

Miss Sichel treats of the youth of Catherine de Medici, the Court of Henry II., the reign of François 11., Jeanne de Navarre, the Council of Poissy, the Huguenots, Ronsard, Bernard Palissy ...

In Kathleen Wellman’s book “Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France,” Henry and Diane de Poitiers became romantically involved the year after he married Catherine de Medici; Henry was 15 ...

However, one Diane de Poitier (Ludivine Sagnier) stands between them. The Serpent Queen Episode 6 opens with Catherine’s premonition of Henry dying during a joust wearing her green favor.

“Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent ... In 1533, she was wed to Henry of the House of Valois in France, second son of King Francis I. He became dauphin upon the death ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in ... princess and a Florentine dynast was betrothed at age 14 by papal decree to the young French prince who would become Henry II.