After Catherine's daughter Elisabeth died in childbirth in 1568, she had touted her youngest daughter Margaret as a bride for Philip II of Spain. Ippolito de' Medici · Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of... · Palazzo Medici Riccardi · Arts

11 сент. 2024 г. · Orphaned within days, Catherine was highly educated, trained, and disciplined by nuns in Florence and Rome and married in 1533 by her uncle, ...

One son died in infancy and Catherine's final delivery, in 1556, was of twins (one a neonatal death, the other a stillborn breech extraction).

Catherine eventually had ten children, three of whom became kings of France. In 1559, Henry was pierced through the eye during a jousting tournament and died a ...

Their eldest son Francis was proclaimed king, but died after less than a year. Then in 1560, their second son Charles was crowned, aged just ten years old.

15 июл. 2024 г. · Then, when Francis died of illness on 5 December 1560, her 10-year-old son, Charles IX, became the next king of France. In an attempt to ...

22 июн. 2022 г. · In 1544, she gave birth to her first son, Francis II of France (aka François II, r. 1559-1560) and would have ten children in all, including ...

18 апр. 2023 г. · Yes, her son Paul Petrovich, became her successor as Emperor upon her death in 1794. She also had a child out of wedlock, Count Alexei ...

This was just the beginning — for twelve years, she gave birth to ten, and seven survived (not a bad rate at the time!), and four male children — it seemed that ...

Among her children, Victoire and Jeanne were twin daughters born in 1556. Unfortunately, Jeanne was stillborn, and Victoire died shortly after birth.