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Maria de Medici (1575-1642) - Queen of France, daughter of the Grand Duke Francesco I of Tuscany and Joanna of Austria. In 1600 he was married to King Henry IV of France.
Maria de Medici possessed beauty, but turned the wife of Henry IV away from herself with an overbearing character and constant, albeit well-deserved, scenes of jealousy. When Henry IV in 1610 wanted to go with an army to Germany to support the Protestants, she persuaded him to crown her at Saint-Denis. The day after the coronation, King Henry IV was killed. The suspicion that Maria de Medici was an accomplice in this conspiracy was never removed from her.
After the assassination of Henry, Maria de Medici took the regency for her underage son Louis XIII. The highest aristocracy was dissatisfied with her and repeatedly raised uprisings, which Mary managed to suppress only at the cost of great efforts and sacrifices. After the proclamation of the young king as an adult in 1614, Mary was able to hold the reins of government in her hands until 1617, when Louis XIII ordered her mother to be removed to Blois.
In 1621, Mary made peace with her son and returned to Paris, where she again became the head of the Council of State. To strengthen her influence, she gave her close associate Richelieu a place in the ministry, but was soon dismissed by him and fled to Brussels in July 1631. Removed from there at the request of Richelieu, she moved to England, then to Cologne, where she died alone and poverty in Rubens' house in Tsvetochny Lane.
Paris owes Marie de Medici its beautiful Luxembourg Palace, Cours la Reine and good water pipes.