Marie de' Medici, French queen consort and regent (born 1573)

Marie de' Medici

Queen of France from 1600 to 1610

Marie de' Medici was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV. Marie served as regent of France between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII. Her mandate as regent legally expired in 1614, when her son reached the age of majority, but…