MEDICI, Marie de (1573-1642). Letter signed ("Marie"), as Queen of France and Regent to Louis XIII, to M. de Poyannin, Paris, 14 December 1613. 1 page, folio . A SLAIN KING, AN UNPOPULAR QUEEN, AND BITTERLY DIVIDED ROYAL FAMILY. Having taken over the throne following the assassination of her husband, King Henry IV--of which she was alleged to have prior knowledge and did nothing to prevent--Queen Marie here summons de Poyannin to discuss affairs of state. She also served, at this time, as Regent for her minor son, the future Louis XIII. But her days in power were brief and tumultuous. Sacking most of Henry's able advisors, she made her court favorite, the Italian Concino Concini, her principal advisor. So unpopular were her actions that the nobleman rose against her, convening an Estates General in 1614 that curtailed some of her powers. Her son, assuming the throne in his own right in 1617, promptly had Concini assassinated and his mother packed off into exile. Repeated reconciliations were inevitably followed by renewed schemes on her part against her offspring, and she was eventually exiled for good to Amsterdam in 1638. She died in Cologne in 1642.
MEDICI, Marie de (1573-1642). Letter signed ("Marie"), as Queen of France and Regent to Louis XIII, to M. de Poyannin, Paris, 14 December 1613. 1 page, folio . A SLAIN KING, AN UNPOPULAR QUEEN, AND BITTERLY DIVIDED ROYAL FAMILY. Having taken over the throne following the assassination of her husband, King Henry IV--of which she was alleged to have prior knowledge and did nothing to prevent--Queen Marie here summons de Poyannin to discuss affairs of state. She also served, at this time, as Regent for her minor son, the future Louis XIII. But her days in power were brief and tumultuous. Sacking most of Henry's able advisors, she made her court favorite, the Italian Concino Concini, her principal advisor. So unpopular were her actions that the nobleman rose against her, convening an Estates General in 1614 that curtailed some of her powers. Her son, assuming the throne in his own right in 1617, promptly had Concini assassinated and his mother packed off into exile. Repeated reconciliations were inevitably followed by renewed schemes on her part against her offspring, and she was eventually exiled for good to Amsterdam in 1638. She died in Cologne in 1642.
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