True Crime: Medici Murder at the Louvre
Not Just the Tudors
History Hit
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
**Warning: Contains graphic description of the mutilation of corpses**
In April 1617, Concino Concini, Marshal of France, was shot dead as he entered the Louvre. But his murder was only the beginning of a terrifying chain of events.
How did the assassination of this hated royal favourite unleash mob violence, propaganda and a new political order? And what fate awaited the woman blamed for bending France to a foreigner’s will?
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb and Dr Una McIlvenna explore scandal, misogyny and print culture in a moment when violence remade the French monarchy.
More:
True Crime: Murder in Renaissance Rome
Rise of the Medici
Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Max Wintle, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff.
All music courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.
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| 0:45.2 | from Holbein to the Huguenots, from Shakespeare to Samarise, |
| 0:49.8 | relieved by regular doses of murder, espionage and witchcraft. |
| 0:54.0 | Not in other words, just the Tudors, but most definitely also the Tudors. |
| 1:02.4 | Paris, 24th of April 1617. |
| 1:15.9 | A morning, much like any other, for Conchino Conchini, Marquis D'Ancres, Marshal of France. He's striding through the Louvre, as he has done a thousand |
| 1:21.7 | times before, self-assured, magnificent, and utterly contemptuous of those around him. |
| 1:28.3 | He has survived seven years of intrigue, rebellion and noble fury. |
| 1:33.3 | He has made and unmade ministers, pocketed governorships and bent the regent, |
| 1:38.3 | Queen Marie de Medici, so completely to his will |
| 1:42.3 | that France has come to feel like his personal estate, solely |
| 1:46.1 | existing to be plundered at his leisure. |
| 1:49.0 | Goncini does not realise that the young king has had enough. |
| 1:53.5 | Because 16-year-old Louis Xirteenth has been simmering for months, humiliated by this Florentine |
| 1:59.4 | upstart who treats the French court like conquered territory. |
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