The path to the French throne

The famous Italian family of Medici has always been known for his ability to get rid of enemies. Its members wore rings and keys inside the tiny spikes which were filled with the strongest venom. It was enough for a person inadvertently touch the little things such as a thorn in the bruised finger and the poison got into the blood, and dying in the throes of an unhappy....
How many times have poured the poison into wine at the table! .

The path to the French throne.

Catherine was the daughter of the Florentine Lorenzo Duke of Urbino II and granddaughter of Pope Clement VII. Early orphaned, with nine years she was raised in a convent. One day in Florence Republican uprising began, and the townspeople, who hated the Medici, gave the girl soldiers to outrage over the heir to the great family....

Physical and psychological trauma for the child was not a gift. Catherine grew secretive and distrustful of others, all its actions ran cold calculation. At age 14, married to her same age, Henry of Orleans, son of French King François I of Valois. But in the first ten years of marriage, the couple had no children, besides Henry favored his mistress Diane de Poitiers, his senior by twenty years....

In the eleventh year at the royal couple, finally, the first child was born, and later Catherine gave birth to nine children. The official version says that Henry has agreed to an operation cure him of infertility. But some believe that Catherine just started a lover.

Would inherit the throne of the elder brother of Henry Francis. But he died suddenly, having drunk a hot day with ice water. There also were rumors that the crown prince had been poisoned, but the culprits have not been found. At the appointed time Henry became king.

Synoubiytsa?.

After Henry II, was accidentally killed at a tournament Earl Montgomery, succeeded by his eldest son, Francis II, a painful 16- year-old boy. It took very little time, Francis became ill and died suddenly. Shortly before his death, the king saw the servant as his mother, the Dowager Queen Catherine, poured into the ear to the patient some medicine... then it got worse.

The name of the successor of Francis II - Charles IX - and still is associated with the bloody massacre of St. Bartholomew, when the Parisian Catholics attempted to exterminate the polls Protestant Huguenots. In fact, the real director of this performance was not the young king and his mother Catherine de Medici, and she longed for blood, believing that a massacre could strengthen its power.

Junk magic.

In an effort to destroy the unwanted, the queen resorted to the amounts considered in those years, one of the most effective - witchcraft. She held for a former priest, defrocked for practicing black magic. Along with Catherine has been involved in Satanic Mass, she hoped that Satan will make all of her dreams come true. By order of the Queen Mother Monk manufactured from wax figures of the ... Voodoo (or something else ) to bear fruit, the enemies of the queen seriously ill and often died.

But the fate of the queen punished for her actions: the terminally ill King Charles. Catherine, wishing to save his life, resorted to necromancy. When that did not work, the monk - Satanist told her to turn to the oracle ... For this ceremony was required to kill the baby, always beautiful, pure and innocent. Catherine de 'Medici did not stop to crime. Having obtained the consent of the patient 's son, she arranged the ceremony in the palace of nasty - a black mass. It is served before the image of the demon, laying on the floor upside down cross. The monk - sorcerer ... White gave the child to swallow, which allegedly brought here to be baptized. After the ... His head was put on a black wafer, and then on the table, magic lantern lit up.

Participants began to cause mass demon, asking him to utter a prophecy by the mouth of the severed head of child. Soon, all the really heard a faint, some non-human voice that sounded straight out of a dead baby's head. He said a few Latin phrases, at first glance, a meaningless jumble of words. Catherine Monk, and tried to interpret the prediction in a positive way. However, the patient died soon after the King.

Mother-in-law - poisoner.

The use of poisons was still more reliable than the occupation of magic. Therefore, increasingly resorted to the help of Catherine the poison, not forgetting, however, read over it a spell. Thus, it is ordered to put in a room of his political rival, the Queen of Navarre Jeanne d'Albre, poisoned candle. Having breathed the fumes of the candles, she died soon after. According to contemporaries, Catherine de 'Medici tried to poison him and his son- Henry of Navarre, who represented a threat to the French crown as a possible contender for the throne. But he also had with him magicians, who warned him against the danger of....

Witchcraft and the crime did not bring happiness, Catherine de Medici. All four of her sons died: three from the unknown disease, and King Henry III was assassinated... None of them left behind a legal heirs. Valois dynasty of powerful rulers went into oblivion....

Author: Irina Shlionskaya.






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