And she was quite cultured and cultivated.įor me the issue with Christina is that (unlike Catherine) she didn't seem to care much for rulership of the nation as such (but had some indemnities from a war at least), and was more invested in personal enlightenment or culturemongering or beautifying her favorite cities.Īnyway, starting to go a bit off topic so I'll stop. That aside, Catherine was a masterful diplomat, and successfully plotted out marriages to stave off any military threat from Philip II's Spain, for example. She wasn't raised to be a politician unlike other rulers, and yet masterfully stopped Protestants and Catholics from escalation at key moments, even convincing both to join forces so they could defeat Elizabeth I's English invaders at Le Havre. Click to expand.I take that to mean you didn't approve of the related female leaders, but I think Catherine de' Medici was quite a capable ruler of France in one of its most chaotic periods, even if she did make tactical mistakes.
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