Concino De Coneini Ancre, marshal and marquis d', a Florentine adventurer and prime minister of France, shot in Paris, April 24, 1617. He was the son of a notary, and went to France in 1600 in the suite of the bride of Henry IV., Maria de' Medici, one of whose attendants, Leonora Dori or Galigai, was his wife. With the aid of this woman, who was the daughter of Maria's nurse, he soon rose to high favor at court. He fomented the disagreements between the king and queen, and when the latter became regent on Henry's death he was recognized as the prime favorite of the palace. He bought the marquisate of Ancre, and, though he had never been a soldier, was created marshal of France. The resentment of the country at his sudden elevation and his insolence was aggravated by his raising an army of 7,000 men, whom he kept at his own disposal and his own expense. Appointed prime minister by the queen regent, he kept the young king Louis XIII. under a restraint that was little better than captivity; and that prince before he was 17 years old gave his assent to a conspiracy formed by his favorite, De Luynes (a man whose fortunes the marshal himself had made), to put the minister to death.

The murder was committed before the Louvre by L'Hopital-Vitry, a captain of the royal guards, Du Hallier, and Perray; and Louis, presenting himself after ward at the window, cried out, " Thanks to you, I am now king." Vitry was made marshal of France. The body of the murdered man, after a secret burial, was dug up by the mob, dragged to the Pont Neuf, gibbeted, and torn into a multitude of pieces, which were then sold to the infuriated people. His widow, who is said to have been the first instrument of Richelieu's fortunes, was accused of Judaism, corruption, and sorcery, and burned on the Place de Greve, July 8, 1617. She displayed great firmness, and declared that the only sorcery she had employed toward the queen was "the power of a strong mind over a weak one."