Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...

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 ...

Catherine de Medici was born an Italian noblewoman on April 13, 1519 in Florence to father Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Duke of Urbino and mother Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne, who had ...

Why did Starz turn away from the British Tudors and to the world of French Queen Catherine de Medici for their new series “The Serpent Queen”? “Sometimes it’s because somebody’s so bad ...

And Catherine de'Medici, Queen of France, made sure she was informed of the intrigues at court by expressly employing a group of pretty young women to engage in pillow talk with gullible male ...

The Serpent Queen, based on the book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda, is about the life of Catherine de’ Medici, the 16th century Queen of France. In the second ...

This 1561 portrait depicts Catherine de' Medici standing alongside four of her children, including the newly crowned Charles IX. Public domain via Strawberry Hill House and Garden Though Catherine ...