page_title: Henrietta Maria
section_title: Titles, styles, and arms
hierarchical_section_title: Henrietta Maria / Titles, styles, and arms
context_page_description: Henrietta Maria was queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of Charles I. She was mother of his two immediate successors, Charles II and James II and VII. Contemporaneously, by a decree of her husband, she was known in England as Queen Mary, but did not like this name and signed her letters "Henriette R".
  Queen Henrietta Maria's Roman Catholicism made her unpopular in England, and also prohibited her from being crowned in a Church of England service; therefore she never had a coronation. She began to immerse herself in national affairs as civil war loomed on the horizon, and was compelled to seek refuge in France in 1644, following the birth of her youngest daughter, Henrietta, during the height of the First English Civil War. The execution of Charles I in 1649 left her impoverished. She settled in Paris, and then returned to England after the Restoration of Charles II to the throne. In 1665, she moved back to Paris, where she died four years later.
  The North American Province of Maryland, a major haven for Roman Catholic settlers, was named in her honour. The name was carried over into the current U.S. state of Maryland.
caption: Coat of Arms of Henrietta Maria of France as Queen consort of England.[125]