Catherine de Médicis

(1519-1589)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589 LBT ID: CaMedici1589 VIAF ID: 22213267 LOC ID: n50072220	B/BAP: 1519-04-13 DIED: 1589-01-05
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The daughter of Lorenzo II de Medici, duke of Urbino; after her marriage she was queen consort of King Henry II of France from 1547 to 1559 and then regent in behalf of her son.
REFERENCES TO Catherine de Médicis: Léonard Simond de Sismondi to John Whishart, [November? 1815] in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 3 Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of, 1789-1849, “Journal of Conversations with Lord Byron. No. V.” in New Monthly Magazine NS 35 (December 1832) 521-544 Found 1: ¶ 21 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1818 Found 1: ¶ 15 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter XII Found 1: ¶ 25 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter III: 1815