Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard ... Protestant and Catholic aristocrats had joined the royal family for the wedding of Catherine’s (Catholic) daughter ...

Born in 1519 and 1545, respectively, the women were descendants of Lorenzo I de’ Medici ... his flair for ostentation from his Medici great-grandmother, Catherine. Dispatched to France at ...

A new Starz series, “The Serpent Queen,” dramatizes the life of the much-maligned 16th-century ruler Based on a True Story Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Catherine de ...

“Catherine de’ Medici: The Life and Times of the ... Born in 1519 to the powerful Medici family of Florence, she was orphaned within a month by the deaths of both parents.

Catherine de Medici was born to Lorenzo de Medici ... “When Henri dies,” said Goldstone, “The Guises [a prominent French noble family] they’re going to come in and take over.

As TV critic Lorraine Ali writes in her recommendation for “The Serpent Queen,” Starz’s razor-sharp costume drama about Catherine de Medici will ... Why ‘All in the Family’ would be ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine ...