Maria de' Medici

1575 - 1642  (67 years)

• Name	Maria de' Medici
  Birth	26 Apr 1575	Florence, Firenze, Toscana, Italy   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	4 Jul 1642	Koln, Germany   [1]
  Burial	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)
  Marriage	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)
  Family ID	F17876	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2020

  
  

• 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.