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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Catherine de' Medici, Henry II of France, Thoinot Arbeau, Theodore Beza, Pope Innocent IX, Jacobus van Meteren, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Gaspard II de Coligny, Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, Francis, Duke of Guise, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Uluc Ali Reis, Andrea Cesalpino, Sir George Howard, Edwin Sandys, Descendants of Cosimo I de Medici, Mary FitzRoy, Duchess of Richmond and Somerset, Benedict Spinola, Laurence Vaux, Elbertus Leoninus, Janet Beaton, Imagawa Yoshimoto, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Clement Adams, Isabella Jagiellon, Johannes Goropius Becanus, Ogasawara Nagatoki, Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, Tristan de Luna y Arellano, William Winter, Nicholas Grimald, Richard Reynell, Nicholas Harpsfield, Bertrand d'Argentre, Rudolf Gwalther, Pietro Perna, Rene of Chalon, Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni, Richard Bruerne, Johannes Aurifaber, Girolamo Mei, Chiappino Vitelli, Pedro de Villegas Marmolejo, Gutierre de Cetina, Diego de Salamanca, Stanis aw Zamoyski, Bernard Gilles Penot, Hendrick van den Broeck, Francois, Count of Enghien, Pierre de Saint-Julien de Balleure, Pieter Huys, Ikeda Nagamasa, Iwanari Tomomichi, Owen Hopton, Date Harumune. Excerpt: Catherine de' Medici (Florence, 13 April 1519 - Chateau de Blois, 5 January 1589) was an Italian noblewoman who was Queen consort of France from 1547 until 1559, as the wife of King Henry II of France. In 1533, at the age of fourteen, Caterina married Henry, second son of King Francis I and Queen Claude of France. Under the gallicised version of her name, Catherine de Medicis, she was Queen consort of France as the wife of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559. Throughout his reign, Henry excluded Catherine from participating in...
