Images

One morning at the gates of the Louvre, depicting Catherine de' Medici inspecting the victims of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, oil on canvas painting by Édouard Debat-Ponsan, 1880. Musée d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand

Henry of Navarre (later King Henry IV of France, l. 1553-1610) and Margaret of Valois, miniature from manuscript NAL 00082, 1572. National Library of France.

An 1846 painting by John Everett Millais titled "Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru". The scene shows the conquistador Francisco Pizarro (c. 1478-1541) capturing the Inca ruler Atahualpa at the battle of Cajamarca in 1533. (Victoria and Albert...

Brunhilda of Austrasia (c. 543-613) being executed, illustration from the Grandes Chroniques de France, Français 2813, folio 60, verso, c. 1375-1380. National Library of France.

Map of the Merovingian kingdoms at their height.

Coin of Childebert II of Austriasia (r. 575-596). National Library of France.

Henry III of France (r. 1574-1589), oil on canvas by Nicholas Hilliard, c. 1576-78. Private Collection.

Catherine de' Medici and Her Children, oil on canvas by the workshop of François Clouet, 1561.

Henry II of France (r. 1547-1559), oil on canvas by the workshop of François Clouet. Castle of Montal.

Portrait of Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589), oil on canvas by Germain Le Mannier, c. 1547-1559. Uffizi, Florence.