Maria de' Medici

1575 - 1642  (67 years)

• Name	Maria de' Medici
  Born	26 Apr 1575	Florence, Firenze, Toscana, Italy   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	4 Jul 1642	Koln, Germany   [1]
  Buried	St.-Denis, Paris, France   [1]
  Person ID	I29944	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2020

  
  

  Family	Henri IV, King of France and Navarre,   b. 13 Dec 1553, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France ,   d. 14 May 1610, Paris, France  (Age 56 years)
  Married	17 Dec 1600	Lyon, Rhone, France   [1]
  Children	+ 1. Henrietta Maria of France, Queen Consort of England,   b. 26 Nov 1609, Louvre, Paris, France ,   d. 31 Aug 1669, Château de Colombes, Colombes, France  (Age 59 years)
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2020
  Family ID	F17876	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Daughter of Francesco I Maria de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife Joahanna, Archduchess of Austria. Granddaughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife Leonora Alvarez de Toledo; also of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna, princess of Bohemia and Hungary. "[H]er regency, 1610-17, was marked by the squandering of state revenues and concessions to rebellious nobles, she gained Richelieu a cardinal's hat, later to become his worst enemy, died in exile." [The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England (citation details below)]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012.