This woman ruled france until her son charles was old enough to rule.

The woman that ruled France until her son Charles was old enough to rule wa Catherine de Medici.

Explanation:

Henry II, husband of Catherine and father of Charles IX, died in 1559. Charles, his first-born, was only 8 years old, so during the ten years that had to wait to ascend the throne, the regency was entrusted to his mother Catherine de Medicis, who governed until the coming of age of the king.

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the exact role and status of women in the roman world, and indeed in most ancient societies, has often been obscured by the biases of both ancient male writers and 19-20th century ce male scholars, a situation only relatively recently redressed by modern scholarship which has sought to more objectively assess women's status, rights, duties, representation in the arts, and daily lives; and all this from almost exclusively male source material dealing with a male-dominated roman world.

women in mythology

unlike some other ancient cultures such as the greeks who had formed a creation myth where woman was a creature secondary to man and, more specifically, in the form of pandora, a bringer of unhappiness and vices, the romans had a more neutral approach where humanity, and not specifically the male, was created by the gods from earth and water. ovid's metamorphoses, for example, does not specify whether the first human was a man or a woman. at least in a physical sense then men and women were not regarded as belonging to a different species as in the greek world, a view often reiterated in roman medical treatises.