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Charles IX was the king of France after his older brother, King Francis died. Charles ruled France for 14 years.
Childhood[]
Charles IX was born Charles Maximilian, third son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici, in the royal chateau of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He was immediately created Duke of Orléans at birth, succeeding his older brother Louis, his father's second son, who had died in infancy the year before.
On 14 May , Charles was presented the Order of the Garter by Henry Carey.
Accession to the Throne[]
Charles's father died in , followed in December by his older brother, King Francis II. The ten-year-old Charles was immediately proclaimed king and, on 15 May , consecrated in the cathedral at Reims. The government was dominated by his mother, Catherine de' Medici, who at first acted as regent for her young son.
The French Wars of Religion[]
Charles' reign was dominated by The French Wars of Religion, which pitted various factions against each other.
Louis Condé, had already prepared for war, assumed the role of a protector of Protestantism and began to seize and garrison strategic towns along the Loire Valley. The war was followed by four years of an uneasy "armed peace", during which Catherine tried to unite the factions in the succes
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Charles IX (Charles Maximilien; 27 June – 30 May ) was King of France from until his death in He ascended the French throne upon the death of his brother Francis II in , and as such was the penultimate monarch of the House of Valois.
Charles' reign saw the culmination of decades of tension between Protestants and Catholics. Civil and religious war broke out between the two parties after the massacre of Vassy in In , following several unsuccessful attempts at brokering peace, Charles arranged the marriage of his sister Margaret to Henry of Navarre, a major Protestant nobleman in the line of succession to the French throne, in a last desperate bid to reconcile his people. Facing popular hostility against this policy of appeasement and at the instigation of his mother Catherine de' Medici, Charles oversaw the massacre of numerous Huguenot leaders who gathered in Paris for the royal wedding, though his direct involvement is still debated. This event, known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, was a significant blow to the Huguenot movement, and religious civil warfare soon began anew. Charles sought to take advantage of the disarray of the Huguenots by ordering the siege of La Rochelle, but was unable to take the Protestant st
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