CHARLES IX

(1550-74), King of France; 3rd s. of Henry II. and Catherine de’ Medici; succ. his bro., Francis II. 1560. He submitted, easily for the most part, to the empire of his mother, who lured him from his attachment to the gallant Admiral de Coligny, and was, throughout his short life, his evil genius, compelling him, amongst other things, to sanction the Ma acre of St. Bartholomew.