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Paternal Family Tree: Capet
Maternal Family Tree: Catherine Medici Queen Consort France 1519-1589
On 28th October 1533 [her father] King Henry II of France (age 14) and [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 14) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. He the son of [her grandfather] King Francis I of France (age 39) and [her grandmother] Claude Valois Orléans Queen Consort France.
On 14th May 1553 Margaret Valois Queen Consort France was born to King Henry II of France (age 34) and Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 34).
On 10th July 1559 [her father] King Henry II of France (age 40) was killed whilst jousting in celebration of his [her sister] daughter's (age 14) marriage to Philip "The Prudent" II King Spain (age 32). His son [her brother] Francis (age 15) succeeded II King France: Capet Valois Angoulême. Mary Queen of Scots (age 16) by marriage Queen Consort France. They would reign for eighteen months only with Francis dying in Dec 1560. Francis and Mary would have no issue.
On 18th August 1572 Henry IV King France (age 18) and Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 19) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. She the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 53). He the son of Antoine King Navarre and Jeanne Albret III Queen Navarre. They were second cousins.
On 5th January 1589 [her mother] Catherine Medici Queen Consort France (age 69) died.
In 1599 [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 45) divorced Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 45).
On 17th December 1600 [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 47) and Marie de Medici Queen Consort France (age 25) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort of France. The difference in their ages was 21 years. He the son of Antoine King Navarre and Jeanne Albret III Queen Navarre. They were fourth cousins.
On 14th May 1610 [her husband] Henry IV King France (age 56) was murdered by François Ravaillac, a Catholic zealot who stabbed him while his coach was stopped on Rue de la Ferronnerie. His son Louis (age 8) succeeded XIII King France: Capet Valois Bourbon.
Letters of the Court of James I 1613. 26th August 1613. London. Reverend Thomas Lorkin to Thomas Puckering 1st Baronet (age 21).
Queen Margaret (age 60)1, I hear, is very sick, they say, out of conceit; for that it hath been told her, that the almanac doth foretel that this month one of the greatest women of Christendom shall die. The world would laugh, if so great a woman as she is (saith mine author) should have so little wit, as to be put to death by an almanac. The Prince of Conde (age 24), having overheated his body lately in hunting of the stag, fell into a burning ague, and was in some danger for four or five days; but now the violence of the disease being spent, there is a good hope conceived of his recovery.
The Duke d'Espernon (age 59), pretending to live in great fear of his life by reason of the mortal hatred, which divers of his enemies bear him, hath obtained of the queen, for better security, a guard of twenty men taken out of the regiment des gardes who accompany him up and down, wherever he goes; which is offensive to many, who think it strange that the public guard should be employed in the maintaining of his particular factions.
One Recion, a printer of the Religion, having long since reprinted the book of "Novus Homo," (which was published here in England before against the present Pope) was condemned by the Judge of the Chatelet to make an amende honorable before the court, and another before the Nuncio; the further sentence was, that the book should be burned at the Nuncio's gates; and the printer himself banished for ever out of Paris. From which sentence he appealing to the Court of Parliament, they have remitted all his other punishments, save banishment, and that they have restrained only to two years.
Those of the Religion having begun to build a college at Charenton, for the instruction of their youth, the lieutenant-civil adjourned the deputies-general to appear before him, to answer the matter; but they sent him word they were responsible to none but the chancellor, and do not let to go forward with the building; being confident they are sufficiently warranted thereunto by the grants and license of the last king. Richeome, the Jesuit, hath newly set forth at Bordeaux an answer of "Anti-Coton" and La Martaliere's Plea against the Jesuits, and I understand that Suarez2, the Jesuit, hath newly set forth a great book in quarto at Coimbra, in answer to his majesty's apology. The quarrel between the King of Denmark and the States' is now at length happily compounded. My Lord Harrington (deceased) and his lady (age 59) are, by this, I suppose, arrived in England, having left the Palatine's court above a fortnight since. Sir John is gone to meet them at Calais; otherwise, I suppose, your letter should ere now have received answer. Some time next week, if not the latter end of this, his majesty is expected here in London.
Note 1. The first wife of [her former husband] Henry IV of France, from whom she was divorced. She died 27th March, 1615.
Note 2. Francis Saurez, a Spanish theologian, who attacked James in a work written in defence of Catholicism, to which the king thought proper to reply by the hands of the hangman; a functionary who seems to have been much troabled at this period with the writings of zealoas controversialists. Saarez pablished twenty-three folio volumes, and died at Lisbon in 1613.
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On 27th March 1615 Margaret Valois Queen Consort France (age 61) died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great Grand Daughter of Louis XII King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Charles V of France 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis Valois I Duke Orléans 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Valois Orléans 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gian Galeazzo Visconti 1st Duke Milan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabelle Valois 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Valois Orléans Count Angoulême 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Marguerite Rohan
GrandFather: King Francis I of France 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Amadeus Savoy VIII Count Savoy 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis Savoy I Count Savoy 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Valois Countess Savoy 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Philip "Landless" Savoy II Duke Savoy 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Janus of Cyprus
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Cyprus Countess Savoy
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anglesia Visconti
Great x 1 Grandmother: Louise of Savoy Countess Angoulême 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Bourbon I Duke Bourbon 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Bourbon I Duke Bourbon 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Marie Valois I Duchess Auverge 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Bourbon 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Fearless" Valois Duke Burgundy 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Valois Duchess Bourbon 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Father: King Henry II of France 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Charles V of France 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Louis Valois I Duke Orléans 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna Bourbon Queen Consort France 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Valois Duke Orléans 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gian Galeazzo Visconti 1st Duke Milan
Great x 3 Grandmother: Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabelle Valois 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Louis XII King France 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Adolph La Marck 6 x Great Grand Son of King Stephen I England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Adolph La Marck I Duke Cleves 7 x Great Grand Son of King Stephen I England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Jülich Countess Cleves and Mark 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Stephen I England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary La Marck Duchess Orléans 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Fearless" Valois Duke Burgundy 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Marie Valois Duchess Cleves 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Wittelsbach Duchess Burgundy 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandMother: Claude Valois Orléans Queen Consort France 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Montfort V Duke Brittany 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Montfort 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joanna of Navarre Queen Consort England 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Francis Montfort II Duke Brittany 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Louis Valois I Duke Orléans 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Valois 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Valentina Visconti Duchess of Orleans 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne of Brittany Queen Consort France 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John I Count Foix
Great x 3 Grandfather: Gaston IV Count Foix
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jeanne Albret Countess Foix
Great x 2 Grandmother: Marguerite Foix Duchess Brittany 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John II King Aragon 7 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Trastámara Queen Consort Navarre 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Blanche Évreux Queen Consort Aragon 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Margaret Valois Queen Consort France 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Cosimo de Medici "The Elder"
Great x 3 Grandfather: Piero di Cosimo de Medici
Great x 2 Grandfather: Lorenzo de Medici
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni
Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Great x 1 Grandfather: Piero "The Unfortunate" de Medici
Great x 4 Grandfather: Orso Orsini
Great x 3 Grandfather: Giacomo Orsini
Great x 2 Grandmother: Clarice Orsini
GrandFather: Lorenzo de Medici Duke of Urbino