Henrietta Maria of France, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henrietta Maria of France

queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I

Date of Birth: 25-Nov-1609

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1669

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Henrietta Maria of France

  • Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I.
  • She was mother of his two immediate successors, Charles II and James II and VII.
  • Contemporaneously, by a decree of her husband, she was known in England as Queen Mary, but did not like this name and signed her letters "Henriette R".Her Roman Catholicism made her unpopular in England, and also prohibited her from being crowned in a Church of England service; therefore she never had a coronation.
  • She began to immerse herself in national affairs as civil war loomed on the horizon, and was compelled to seek refuge in France in 1644, following the birth of her youngest daughter, Henrietta, during the height of the First English Civil War.
  • The execution of King Charles in 1649 left her impoverished.
  • She settled in Paris, and then returned to England after the Restoration of her eldest son, Charles, to the throne.
  • In 1665, she moved back to Paris, where she died four years later. The North American Province of Maryland, a major haven for Roman Catholic settlers, was named in her honour.
  • The name was carried over into the current U.S.
  • state of Maryland.

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