Catherine de Medici was Queen Mother of France during Charles IX's reign. Worried about the growing influence of Huguenot leader Admiral de Coligny on the King, she plotted his assassination and, later, the St. Barthlomew's Day Massacre
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Catherine de Medici was Queen Mother of France during Charles IX's reign. Worried about the growing influence of Huguenot leader Admiral de Coligny on the King, she plotted his assassination and, later, the St. Barthlomew's Day Massacre
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