Marie de' Medici

Queen of France, second wife of King Henry IV of France (1575-1642)

Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis, Italian: Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642), was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV of France of the House of Bourbon, her regent was succeeded by her son Louis XIII of France.

Marie de Medici
Queen consort of France and Navarre
Tenure17 December 1600 – 14 May 1610
Coronation13 May 1610
Regent of France
Regency14 May 1610 – 2 October 1614
MonarchLouis XIII
Born26 April 1575
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Tuscany
Died3 July 1642(1642-07-03) (aged 67)
Cologne, Holy Roman Empire
Burial
Spouse
Henry IV of France
(m. 1600; died 1610)
Issue
HouseMedici
FatherFrancesco I, Grand Duke of Tuscany
MotherJoanna of Austria
ReligionRoman Catholicism
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