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Duca Alessandro di Medici

Male Abt 1511 - 1537  (26 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Alessandro di Medici 
    Prefix Duca 
    Birth Abt 1511  Firenze, Toscana, Italia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 6 Jan 1537  Firenze, Toscana, Italia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Association Family: Pope Clement, VII / Simonetta da Collavechio (Relationship: Possible parents) 
    Person ID I9736  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 1 Oct 2009 

    Father Lorenzo II di Medici,   b. 1492   d. 4 May 1519 (Age 27 years) 
    Family ID F66107  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Margaretha d' Espana,   b. 28 Dec 1522, Oudenaarde Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1586, Ortona, Parma Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Family ID F2882  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 2 Taddea Malespina,   b. 1505   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Children 
    +1. Giulio di Medici,   b. 1532   d. 1600 (Age 68 years)
    +2. Giulia di Medici   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Porzia di Medici   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F66101  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Jun 2001 

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    Link to Google MapsDeath - 6 Jan 1537 - Firenze, Toscana, Italia Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • illegitimate son of Lorenzo II (but possibly son of Giulio de' Medici, Pope Clement VII

      Following the Sack of Rome it had seemed that control of Florence would again escape the hands of the Medici, for the city had chosen almighty God its king and declared itself "Republic-city". But after less than three years Charles V of Spain brought the short-lived republic a duke, the bastard Alessandro, pephaps the illegitimate son of the pope when Clement was a cardinal. It was said that his mother was a negro or mulatto, a supposition born out by the pronounced, negroid features of the young Alessandro, which gave him his nickname "the Moor". He was assassinated in January 1537 and, since, the principal branch of the Medici family, the Cafaggiolo, terminated the protagonists in the changing fortunes of the family and their struggle for power after Florence would be, henceforth, the cadet branch of the Medici, the "Popolani", descended from Lorenzo, the brother of Cosimo the Elder, who was nicknamed "Popolano" becouse of his undisguised sympathy for democracy.

      Duca di Civita Penna, Vater unsicher, 1530 Haupt der Republik Florenz, 29.7.1531 Herzog von Florenz und Toscana, 1532 erblicher Herzog



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