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3 days ago · The only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, Mary was six days old when her father died and she inherited the throne. During her childhood, Scotland was governed by regents, first by the heir to the throne, James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, and then by her mother, Mary of Guise.
Jul 9, 2024 · Charles's older brother, Francis, became king when their father died, in 1559. Francis was on the throne for 18 months before he died, on Dec. 5, 1560. At that moment, Charles became King of France; he was 10. Catherine, as she had done with Francis, was regent.
Jun 23, 2024 · Charles IX (born June 27, 1550, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris—died May 30, 1574, Vincennes, France) was the king of France from 1560, remembered for authorizing the massacre of Protestants on St. Bartholomew’s Day, August 23–24, 1572, on the advice of his mother, Catherine de Médicis.
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Jul 6, 2024 · Catherine de Medici with her children in 1561: Francis, Charles IX, Margaret and Henry III. The family had other plans for her marriage. Queen Catherine arranged with Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre, that Marguerite would marry her son, the Huguenot prince, Henri of Navarre.
4 days ago · Mary's dream of a new, Catholic Habsburg line was finished, and her popularity further declined when she lost Calais — the last English territory on French soil — to Francis, Duke of Guise, in January 1558. Mary's reign, however, introduced a new coining system that would be used until the 18th century, and her marriage to Philip II created new trade routes for England.
5 days ago · The response from the powerful Catholic Guise family was to order a wholesale killing of Huguenots in Wassy on March 1. This came to be known as the Massacre of Wassy. Unsurprisingly, Huguenots took up arms against the government in response.
Jun 20, 2024 · Mary Tudor was an English princess, the third wife of King Louis XII of France; she was the sister of England’s King Henry VIII (ruled 1509–47) and the grandmother of Lady Jane Grey, who was titular queen of England for nine days in 1553. Mary’s father, King Henry VII (ruled 1485–1509) betrothed.
