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Catherine de' Medici: Married at Fourteen by the Pope
Catherine de' Medici was fourteen when the pope married her to a boy of fourteen. His father was king of France. Her parents had been dead since she was a baby.
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Catherine de' Medici at the Deathbed of Henry II, July 1559
Catherine de' Medici watched her husband ride into a tournament wearing another woman's colours. He was carried out with a lance through his eye and called for his mistress from the bed where he was dying. Catherine refused to let Diane de Poitiers in. The queen had finally found a door she could close.
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The Treaty of Haddington, 7 July 1548: Scotland Promises Its Five-Year-Old Queen to France
Henry VIII had given her a "Rough Wooing" since she was barely old enough to walk. His son continued it. On the seventh of July 1548, Scotland promised its five year old queen to France. She was some seventy miles away and did not know it was happening.