Catherine De Medici – Queen Of France Supported Nostradamus, Was Suspected Of Poisoning And Blamed F

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Catherine De Medici – Queen Of France Supported Nostradamus, Was Suspected Of Poisoning And Blamed For Horrible Massacre
 

Catherine de Medici, (1519 – 1589) has been called the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe and some historians say she did not hesitate to exploit her authority as Queen of France. Did Catherine de Medici only do what was necessary when she responded to crisis brought on by the Protestant Reformation, or was she too dominant and added fuel to the escalating religious violence in France?

Was Catherine de Medici guilty of murdering an enemy with poisoned gloves? Why was she blamed for the horrible St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572? Was she ruthless and evil or simply just desperate to keep the Valois monarchy on the throne at all costs? Were the witch accusations against Catherine de Medici pure fantasies or did she practice dark arts?

http://www.ancientpages.com/2018/12/17/catherine-de-medici-queen-of-france-supported-nostradamus-was-suspected-of-poisoning-and-blamed-for-horrible-massacre/

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Why was she blamed for the horrible St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of 1572?

Practically all of the historians I've read have dogmatically asserted that she was behind the amazingly brutal massacre of Protestant men, women, and children.  Many of the historians declare that the Papacy was evidently involved in the plot to perpetrate the massacre--pointing out, among other things, that the church bells in Rome supposedly rang in celebration when word of the massacre of the hated Protestants was received in Rome.

The article says that between 5,000 and 30,000 Protestants were killed in Paris and its environs on August 23 and August 24.  One supposed authority (?) said that the massacre actually lasted for more than a week and spread far from Paris, with a death total of perhaps 80,000.