House of Medici

Udforsk House of Medici på RootsLore — et levende kort med tidsforløb over fødsler, bryllupper og migrationer gennem generationerne.

Personer i dette stamtræ

• Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici · 1360–02/20/1429 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Founder of the Medici bank and of the family’s fortune in Florence; father of Cosimo the Elder.
• Piccarda Bueri · 1368–04/1433 · Verona, Italy → Florence, Italy — Wife of Giovanni di Bicci and matriarch of the rising Medici house.
• Cosimo the Elder · 09/27/1389–08/01/1464 · Florence, Italy → Careggi, Italy — Cosimo "il Vecchio", de facto ruler of Florence and the great patron of the early Renaissance; honoured as pater patriae.
• Contessina de' Bardi · 1390–1473 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Wife of Cosimo the Elder, from the old Florentine banking family of the Bardi.
• Lorenzo the Elder · 1395–09/23/1440 · Florence, Italy → Careggi, Italy — Younger son of Giovanni di Bicci; founder of the cadet branch that would later produce the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.
• Piero the Gouty · 1416–12/02/1469 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Piero "il Gottoso", ruler of Florence in the brief span between Cosimo the Elder and Lorenzo the Magnificent.
• Lucrezia Tornabuoni · 06/22/1427–03/25/1482 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Wife of Piero the Gouty; a poet and shrewd political adviser, and mother of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
• Pierfrancesco the Elder · 1430–07/19/1476 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Son of Lorenzo the Elder; he carried on the Medici cadet line.
• Lorenzo the Magnificent · 01/01/1449–04/08/1492 · Florence, Italy → Careggi, Italy — Lorenzo "il Magnifico", statesman and the greatest Medici patron of Renaissance art and learning, whose court nurtured Botticelli and the young Michelangelo.
• Clarice Orsini · 1453–07/30/1488 · Rome, Italy → Florence, Italy — Roman noblewoman of the Orsini, wife of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
• Giuliano de' Medici · 10/28/1453–04/26/1478 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Brother of Lorenzo the Magnificent, murdered before the high altar of Florence Cathedral in the Pazzi conspiracy.
• Caterina Sforza · 1463–05/28/1509 · Milan, Italy → Florence, Italy — Countess of Forlì and Imola, a famed warrior noblewoman who defied Cesare Borgia; mother of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere.
• Giovanni il Popolano · 1467–09/14/1498 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Of the cadet branch; husband of Caterina Sforza and father of the soldier Giovanni dalle Bande Nere.
• Piero the Unfortunate · 02/15/1472–12/28/1503 · Florence, Italy → Italy — Piero "the Unfortunate"; his surrender to the invading French saw the Medici expelled from Florence in 1494, and he drowned in the Garigliano river.
• Giovanni de' Medici (Pope Leo X) · 12/11/1475–12/01/1521 · Florence, Italy → Rome, Italy — Son of Lorenzo the Magnificent; reigned as Pope Leo X (1513–1521), whose sale of indulgences helped spark the Reformation.
• Giulio de' Medici (Pope Clement VII) · 05/26/1478–09/25/1534 · Florence, Italy → Rome, Italy — Illegitimate son of the murdered Giuliano; reigned as Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), refused Henry VIII’s annulment, and lived through the Sack of Rome.
• Giuliano Duke of Nemours · 03/12/1479–03/17/1516 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Son of Lorenzo the Magnificent; Duke of Nemours, whose tomb in the Medici Chapel Michelangelo crowned with the figures of Night and Day.
• Lorenzo Duke of Urbino · 09/12/1492–05/04/1519 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Lorenzo II, grandson of Lorenzo the Magnificent and Duke of Urbino; the dedicatee of Machiavelli’s "The Prince" (his mother was Alfonsina Orsini).
• Giovanni dalle Bande Nere · 04/06/1498–11/30/1526 · Forlì, Italy → Mantua, Italy — The last of the great Italian condottieri; his son Cosimo I founded the grand-ducal line of Tuscany.
• Maria Salviati · 07/17/1499–12/12/1543 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — Wife of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere and a granddaughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent, so their son Cosimo I reunited the two Medici branches.
• Catherine de' Medici · 04/13/1519–01/05/1589 · Florence, Italy → Blois, France — Daughter of Lorenzo II (her mother was Madeleine de La Tour d’Auvergne); Queen of France as wife of Henry II and mother of three French kings.
• Henry II of France · 03/31/1519–07/10/1559 · Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France → Paris, France — King of France (reigned 1547–1559) and husband of Catherine de’ Medici; he died of a wound taken in a tournament.
• Cosimo I de' Medici · 06/12/1519–04/21/1574 · Florence, Italy → Florence, Italy — First Grand Duke of Tuscany (from 1569); he consolidated Medici rule over the whole region and built the Uffizi as his administrative seat.
• Eleanor of Toledo · 01/11/1522–12/17/1562 · Alba de Tormes, Spain → Pisa, Italy — Spanish noblewoman, wife of Cosimo I and an able regent of Florence; the Pitti Palace became her residence.
• Francesco I de' Medici · 03/25/1541–10/19/1587 · Florence, Italy → Poggio a Caiano, Italy — Second Grand Duke of Tuscany and father of Marie de’ Medici; a devotee of alchemy whose first wife was Joanna of Austria.
• Henry IV of France · 12/13/1553–05/14/1610 · Pau, France → Paris, France — First Bourbon King of France (reigned 1589–1610) and husband of Marie de’ Medici; he was assassinated in Paris.
• Marie de' Medici · 04/26/1575–07/03/1642 · Florence, Italy → Cologne, Germany — Daughter of Francesco I; Queen of France as wife of Henry IV and regent of France for her young son Louis XIII.