However, Catherine would continue to play a principal role in politics and often dominated her son. After this victory, Charles declared his legal majority in August 1563, formally ending the regency.

The war was followed by four years of an uneasy 'armed peace', during which Catherine tried to unite the factions in the successful effort to recapture Le Havre from the English.

Louis CondГ©, had already prepared for war, assumed the role of a protector of Protestantism and began to seize and garrison strategic towns along the Loire Valley. The government was dominated by his mother, Catherine de' Medici, who at first acted as regent for her young son.Д¬harles' reign was dominated by The French Wars of Religion, which pitted various factions against each other. The ten-year-old Charles was immediately proclaimed king and, on, consecrated in the cathedral at Reims. On, Charles was presented the Order of the Garter by Henry Carey.Д¬harles's father died in 1559, followed in December 1560 by his older brother, King Francis II. He was immediately created Duke of OrlГ©ans at birth, succeeding his older brother Louis, his father's second son, who had died in infancy the year before. Charles ruled France for 14 years.Д¬harles IX was born Charles Maximilian, third son of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici, in the royal chateau of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Charles IX was the king of France after his older brother, King Francis died.

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