Charles IX
1550–74, king of France 1560–74.
1550–1611, king of Sweden 1604–11 (son of Gustavus I).
noun
1550–74, king of France (1560–74), son of Catherine de’ Medici and Henry II: his reign was marked by war between Huguenots and Catholics
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