1642 - 1723 (81 years)
Has more than 100 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.
1642 - 1723 (81 years)
Birth |
1642 |
Died |
31 Oct 1723 |
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Father |
Duca Ferdinando II di Medici, b. 1610 |
Mother |
Vittoria della Rovere, b. 1622 |
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Family |
Marguerite Louise d' Orléans, b. 28 Jul 1645, Palais d'Orléans,, Paris, Île-de-France, France |
Children |
| 1. Fernando III di Medici, b. 9 Aug 1663, Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
| 2. Anna Maria Louise di Medici, b. 11 Aug 1667, Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
| 3. Duca Giovanni Gastone di Medici, b. 1671 |
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1645 - 1721 (75 years)
Birth |
28 Jul 1645 |
Palais d'Orléans,, Paris, Île-de-France, France |
Died |
1721 |
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Father |
Duc Gaston Jean Baptiste de France, b. 25 Apr 1608, Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne, France |
Mother |
Marguerite de Lorraine, b. 22 Jul 1615 |
Married |
31 Jan 1632 |
Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France |
Divorced |
5 Sep 1634 |
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Family |
Duca Cosimo III di Medici, b. 1642 |
Children |
| 1. Fernando III di Medici, b. 9 Aug 1663, Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
| 2. Anna Maria Louise di Medici, b. 11 Aug 1667, Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
| 3. Duca Giovanni Gastone di Medici, b. 1671 |
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1660 - 1711 (51 years)
Birth |
1660 |
Died |
1711 |
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Father |
Duca Ferdinando II di Medici, b. 1610 |
Mother |
Vittoria della Rovere, b. 1622 |
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Family |
Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga, b. 13 Nov 1686 |
Married |
1709 |
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1686 - 1742 (55 years)
Birth |
13 Nov 1686 |
Died |
16 Mar 1742 |
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Family |
Cardinal Francesco Maria di Medici, b. 1660 |
Married |
1709 |
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1610 - 1670 (60 years)
Birth |
1610 |
Died |
23 May 1670 |
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Father |
Duca Cosimo II di Medici, b. 1590 |
Mother |
Maria Magdalene von Österreich, b. 7 Oct 1589, Graz, Steiermark, Österreich |
Married |
19 Oct 1608 |
Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
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Family |
Vittoria della Rovere, b. 1622 |
Children |
+ | 1. Duca Cosimo III di Medici, b. 1642 |
| 2. Cardinal Francesco Maria di Medici, b. 1660 |
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1622 - 1695 (73 years)
Birth |
1622 |
Died |
1695 |
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Father |
Francesco Ubaldo della Rovere |
Mother |
Claudia di Medici, b. 4 Jun 1604, Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
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Family |
Duca Ferdinando II di Medici, b. 1610 |
Children |
+ | 1. Duca Cosimo III di Medici, b. 1642 |
| 2. Cardinal Francesco Maria di Medici, b. 1660 |
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1645 - 1721 (75 years)
Birth |
28 Jul 1645 |
Palais d'Orléans,, Paris, Île-de-France, France |
Died |
1721 |
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Father |
Duc Gaston Jean Baptiste de France, b. 25 Apr 1608, Fontainebleau, Seine et Marne, France |
Mother |
Marguerite de Lorraine, b. 22 Jul 1615 |
Married |
31 Jan 1632 |
Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France |
Divorced |
5 Sep 1634 |
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Family |
Duca Cosimo III di Medici, b. 1642 |
Children |
| 1. Fernando III di Medici, b. 9 Aug 1663, Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
| 2. Anna Maria Louise di Medici, b. 11 Aug 1667, Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
| 3. Duca Giovanni Gastone di Medici, b. 1671 |
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1663 - 1713 (50 years)
Birth |
9 Aug 1663 |
Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
Died |
31 Oct 1713 |
Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
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Father |
Duca Cosimo III di Medici, b. 1642 |
Mother |
Marguerite Louise d' Orléans, b. 28 Jul 1645, Palais d'Orléans,, Paris, Île-de-France, France |
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Family |
Herzogin Violante Beatrix von Bayern, b. 23 Jan 1673, München, Bayern, Deutschland |
Married |
1689 |
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1667 - 1743 (75 years)
Birth |
11 Aug 1667 |
Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
Died |
18 Feb 1743 |
Firenze, Toscana, Italia |
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Father |
Duca Cosimo III di Medici, b. 1642 |
Mother |
Marguerite Louise d' Orléans, b. 28 Jul 1645, Palais d'Orléans,, Paris, Île-de-France, France |
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Family |
Kurfürst Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz, b. 19 Apr 1658, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland |
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1671 - 1737 (66 years)
Birth |
1671 |
Died |
9 Jul 1737 |
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Father |
Duca Cosimo III di Medici, b. 1642 |
Mother |
Marguerite Louise d' Orléans, b. 28 Jul 1645, Palais d'Orléans,, Paris, Île-de-France, France |
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Family |
Herzogin Anna Maria Franziska von Sachsen-Lauenburg-Ratzeburg, b. 13 Jun 1672, Neuhaus |
Married |
1697 |
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Name |
Cosimo III di Medici |
Prefix |
Duca |
Birth |
1642 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
31 Oct 1723 |
Siblings |
1 Sibling |
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Person ID |
I52969 |
Geneagraphie |
Last Modified |
29 Aug 2000 |
Family |
Marguerite Louise d' Orléans, b. 28 Jul 1645, Palais d'Orléans,, Paris, Île-de-France, France d. 1721 (Age 75 years) |
Children |
| 1. Fernando III di Medici, b. 9 Aug 1663, Firenze, Toscana, Italia d. 31 Oct 1713, Firenze, Toscana, Italia (Age 50 years) |
| 2. Anna Maria Louise di Medici, b. 11 Aug 1667, Firenze, Toscana, Italia d. 18 Feb 1743, Firenze, Toscana, Italia (Age 75 years) |
| 3. Duca Giovanni Gastone di Medici, b. 1671 d. 9 Jul 1737 (Age 66 years) |
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Family ID |
F21599 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
29 Aug 2000 |
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Notes |
- Duca di Toscana; an austere and gloomy man. Like some of his Della Rovere ancestors. Cosimo had an inclination to melancholy and contemporaries claimed that he never laughed.
He was averse to physical contact and feared that "sexual activity would undermine his health". Sophia of Hanover reported: "He sleeps with his wife but once a week, and then under supervision of a doctor." Marguérite Louise repeatedly refused to share her bed with her grave husband for months and around 1665 she was temporarily exiled from court. During her pregnancies she unsuccessfully tried to induce a miscarriage and when she was pregnant of her third child, Gian Gastone, Marguérite Louise even tried to starve herself. Four years after Gian Gastone's birth she left for France, never to return. There she lived on a pension supplied by her husband.
His long reign, which lasted for fifty-three years, was a positive disaster for the state of Tuscany and for the Medici dynasty. Already overly devout in his own right, he had been dominated by the bigotry and vanity of his mother, since his father, whose weakness was indolence, had not asserted his authority in the child's upbringing.
Cosimo spent long hours in prayer and visited monasteries and sanctuaries where he proved a generous and devout guest. Priests, friars and monks proliferated in Florence, absorbed in their psalms, prayers, and hymns while the Tuscan state was losing its former brilliance to a steady and reactionary decline for which its ruler was entirely to blame. It is small wonder that Tuscany became the victim of terrible economic recession, as no attention was paid to any of the innovations being put into practice in other Italian states.
Even the arts and sciences were neglected in Florence, as artists and scientists left a Tuscany caught in the stranglehold of the clergy. Pisa, Siena, and Livorno were reduced to insignificant, depressed cities; whereas Florence's reputation was based exclusively on its illustrious past, which made the present seem even more dreary by comparison.
Cosimo III also made a serious mistake over his choise of a wife: he married Marguerite Louise of Orléans, cousin of Louis XIV, the sun King. She was of a rare beauty, while Cosimo was corpulent from childhood and he was diametrically opposed to his young bride in character and attitude to life. The marriage immediatly turned stormy. Nevertheless the young couple had three children. Of the three children Grand Prince Ferdinando was a pleasant-looking boy, intelligent and with a natural feeling for beauty and culture. Nevertheless he grew into a dissolute and intemperate man and died before his father . He married the sixteen years old Violante of Baviera but they had no children.
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