She was from one of the most influential families of the Renaissance, the Medicis, and mother to three kings, so it's perhaps no surprise that Catherine de' Medici is largely remembered for her ...

Château des dames (The Ladies' Chateau), and its various interior rooms, formal gardens, and even its stables hold stories from women like Catherine de' Medici, Regent of France, and Diane de ...

Catherine de’ Medici was born a piece on a political chessboard in 1519. Orphaned before she was a month old in her native Italy, this Catholic daughter of a French princess and a Florentine ...

see Leonardo da Vinci's tomb in the Château d'Amboise or simply behold the river-spanning architecture of Catherine de Medici's Chenonceau. But there is one estate that sits quietly behind gates ...

Caterina Maria Romola di Lorenzo de Medici was born in Florence on 13 April 1519. Her father was Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence and her mother was Madeleine de la Tour d ...

The current chateau was constructed between 1513 and 1517, and a number of noble women resided there, including Catherine De Medici, Louise Dupin and Diane de Poitiers (also known as King Henry ...

She is the author of the book, The Identities of Catherine de' Medici, published by Brill in 2021. In the last week, I’ve been contacted by several friends and colleagues telling me if you type ...

That really says it all,” says historian Estelle Paranque, author of the forthcoming book Blood, Fire and Gold: The Story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. “A snake is someone that will ...

Contrary to the overly dramatic storyline of the TV biopic “The Serpent Queen” on Starz, Catherine de’ Medici wasn’t really that bad as queen and later queen mother in 16th-century France.

Why did Starz turn away from the British Tudors and to the world of French Queen Catherine de Medici for their new series “The Serpent Queen”? “Sometimes it’s because somebody’s so bad ...