Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Catherine de Medici

The "Château d'Amboise rises over the town. It´s owner Louis d'Amboise had unsucessfully plotted against Louis XI and was condemned to be executed in 1431. King Charles VII (aka "le Bien-Servi") pardoned him but took his château at Amboise. For about two centuries the château was a favourite of French kings. Over many decades the château got rebuilt. First in flamboyant Gothic later under Italian architects in Renaissance style. It was here, where Charles VIII died in 1498, afte after he hit his head on a door lintel. Francis I was raised here. He later invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise. Leonardo arrived in 1515 and lived here upto his death in 1519. Henry II and Catherine de Medici raised their children here along with Mary Stuart, the child Queen of Scotland who had been promised in marriage to the future French Francis II. www.chateau-amboise.com/en/

The "Château d'Amboise rises over the town. It´s owner Louis d'Amboise had unsucessfully plotted against Louis XI and was condemned to be executed in 1431. King Charles VII (aka "le Bien-Servi") pardoned him but took his château at Amboise. For about two centuries the château was a favourite of French kings. Over many decades the château got rebuilt. First in flamboyant Gothic later under Italian architects in Renaissance style. It was here, where Charles VIII died in 1498, afte after he hit his head on a door lintel. Francis I was raised here. He later invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise. Leonardo arrived in 1515 and lived here upto his death in 1519. Henry II and Catherine de Medici raised their children here along with Mary Stuart, the child Queen of Scotland who had been promised in marriage to the future French Francis II. www.chateau-amboise.com/en/

A castle existed here since the 10th century, but when Pierre d'Amboise unsuccessfully rebelled against Louis XI the castle was dismantled on royal order in 1465. It got rebuilt and acquired by Catherine de Medici. After the death of Henry II, she forced his mistress Diane de Poitiers, to exchange Château de Chaumont for Château de Chenonceau. It changed hands quite often. In 1810 Madame de Staël, exiled from Paris by Napoleon, finished "De l'Allemagne" here. The Château de Chaumont meanwhile hosts a museum www.domaine-chaumont.fr/en_general_accueil

I had stayed overnight in a nice "chambre d ́hotes" in Onzain on the right side of the Loire. A bridge spans over the Loire here. The Via Turonensis runs through Chaumont sur Loire and turns "inland" just after the castle. The Château de Chaumont was once owned by Catherine de Medici, who entertained here numerous astrologers, among them Nostradamus. Later she forced her husband´s mistress Diane de Poitiers, to exchange Château de Chaumont for Château de Chenonceau.