Catherine de' Medici
1519 – 1589
French

Queen. She ruled as regent several times during the reigns of her three sons and eventually put her son-in-law on the throne as Henry IV.

Contemporaries
1580–1660St. Vincent de Paul
1585–1642Armand Richelieu
1515–1572Petrus Ramus
1588–1665Catherine de Vivonne Rambouillet
fl. c. 1494–c. 1553François Rabelais
1503–1566Nostradamus
1533–1592Michel de Montaigne
1555–1628François de Malherbe
1577–1638Père Joseph
1550–1588Henri Guise
1479–1565Jean Grolier
1510–1588Jean Daurat
1509–1564John Calvin
1530–1596Jean Bodin
1522–1560Joachim du Bellay
1528–1577Remy Belleau