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56 - CHARLES IX - CATHERINE OF MÉDICIS
The chancellor of the Hospital.
CHARLES IX - CATHERINE OF MÉDICIS
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MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789) » Wars of religion
French history in 100 tables
by Paul Lehugeur
ORIGINS (of 58 front. J.-C. with 887)
FEUDALITY (from 887 to 1483)
MONARCHY (of 1483 to 1789)
Wars of Italy
Wars against the house of Austria
Wars of religion
Apogee of monarchical France
Decline of monarchy
THE REVOLUTION
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François II, died without children in 1560, has as a successor his brother Charles IX, ten years old.
The queen mother, Catherine de Médicis, widow of Henri II, exert regency (1560-63).
Policy without scruple, it strengthens its capacity by all the means, is useful of the Own ways against the Bourbons and the Bourbons against the Own ways; the edicts of the chancellor of the Hospital and the Conference of Poissy (1561) are impotent to restore the order, and the period of the wars of religion starts: France falls into chaos, and loses any influence in Europe: the catholics are combined Spain, and to the Protestants in England.
Charles IX.
Élisabeth of Austria.
Conference of Poissy.
OWN WAYS
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