Catherine Di Medici was born on April 13,1519 in Florence, Italy and she died on January 5,1589 due to old age. But, she was not born into french nobility and her mother Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne was a bourbon princess related to multiple french nobility though. In a very sad tragedy Catherine Di Medici became an orphan within days of her birth.
Catherine was actually an italian born politician who had a passion for politics, architecture and she was also esteemed at the dazzling court of Francis the first . She was not born royalty but she married Henry the second. Catherine designed a few buildings like the Tuileries and the Chenonceaux was what she …show more content…
But, with all of the politics comes war and death .Also, from the years 1560 to 1570 were politely one the most important years of her life. Around this time there was a war brewing because catholic extremist who wanted to take the crown from france. What Catherine did was that she sat down with both leaders of each religion and worked out an agreement in which the protestants and catholics agreed in. This ended the first civil war in March of 1563, but there were more to come in the near