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Margaret of Valois' eyewitness account of St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre is among the most famous and the only written record of the event left by a member of the royal family of France at the time. Her account appears in her memoirs as Letter...

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

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

A portrait of Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536 CE), first wife of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE). (National Portrait Gallery, London)

A 19th century CE painting by Henry Nelson O'Neil showing the court of 1529 CE which convened to annul the marriage of Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536 CE) and Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE). The marriage would not be annulled until...

A 1919 photograph of Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya, aka Catherine Breshkovsky (1844-1934) who was an activist and member of the Socialist Revolutionaries but had worked for greater women’s rights from the 1860s to the Russian Revolution...

Statue of Catherine of Aragon, queen consort of England (r. 1509-1533) and first wife of Henry VIII of England, designed by Manuel González Muñoz, 2007. Archepiscopal Palace of Alcalá de Henares near Madrid, Spain.

The tomb of Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536 CE), first wife of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE). Peterborough Cathedral, England.

Thomas Cromwell (l. c. 1485-1540 CE) served as chief minister to Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE) from 1532 to 1540 CE. With his king and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (in office 1533-55 CE), Cromwell masterminded the...

Queen Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), oil on canvas after Sir Peter Lely, circa 1660-1705. Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire National Trust.