biography
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Charles IX (of France)
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| lived:
| (1550–74)
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| biography:
| King of France (1560–74), born in St Germain-en-Laye, NC France. The second son of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici, he succeeded his brother Francis II. His reign coincided with the Wars of Religion. He was completely subject to his mother, whose counsels drove him to authorize the massacre of Huguenots on St Bartholomew's Day (1572), the memory of which was said to have haunted him until his death. |
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