Ancestral Trails 2016 » Marie de MEDICI (1575-1642)

Données personnelles Marie de MEDICI 

• Elle est née le 26 avril 1575 dans Château de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau, France.
• Elle est décédée en l'an 1642 dans Brussels, Brabant, Flanders, Belgium, elle avait 66 ans.

  Died in exile

• Un enfant de Francesco de MEDICI et Joanna von HABSBURG

Famille de Marie de MEDICI

Elle est mariée avec Henri de FRANCE.

Ils se sont mariés le 5 octobre 1600, elle avait 25 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. Christine Marie de FRANCE  1606-1663 
2. Henrietta Maria de FRANCE  1609-1669 
3. Elizabeth de FRANCE  1602-1644 
4. Gaston Jean Baptiste d'ORLEANS  1608-1660 
5. Louis de FRANCE  1601-1643 

Notes par Marie de MEDICI

Marie de' Medici became the second wife to King Henry IV of France in a marriage by proxy on 5 October 1600 by the power invested in her uncle, Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany. When Henry was assassinated in 1610, Louis XIII, his son and successor to the throne, was only eight years old. Louis' mother, Marie, acted as his regent as commanded by the Frankish Salic law in case of an infant ruler. However, even after Louis came of age at thirteen in 1614, the queen continued ruling in his stead. In 1617, Louis XIII finally decided to take governing matters in his own hands at the age of fifteen and the queen was exiled to Blois.

Louis and his mother were not reconciled for over four years, and finally in 1621 Marie was permitted to return to Paris. Upon her return, Marie focused on building and decorating the Luxembourg Palace, an enormous undertaking in which Peter Paul Rubens played a key role. Rubens, then court painter to the Duchy of Mantua under Vincenzo I Gonzaga, had first met Marie at her proxy wedding in Florence in 1600. In 1621, Marie de' Medici commissioned Rubens to paint two large series depicting the lives of herself and her late husband, Henry IV, to adorn both wings of the first floor of the Luxembourg Palace. The first series of 21 canvases depicts the life of Marie in largely allegorical terms, and was finished by the end of 1624, to coincide with the celebrations surrounding the wedding of her daughter, Henrietta Maria to Charles I of England on 11 May 1625. The cycle of paintings dedicated to the life of Henry IV was never completed, although some preliminary sketches survive. The fact that the Henry IV series was not realized can be attributed in part to Marie de' Medici being permanently banned from France by her son in 1631. She escaped to Brussels, and later died in exile in 1642 in the same house that the Peter Paul Rubens's family had occupied more than fifty years prior.

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