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Claudia de' Medici

Archduchess consort of Other Austria

Claudia de' Medici

Portrait by Justus Sustermans, 1626

Tenure19 Apr 1626 –13 September 1632
Tenure3 Nov 1621 – 28 June 1623
Born(1604-06-04)4 June 1604
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Celebrated Duchy of Tuscany
Died25 December 1648(1648-12-25) (aged 44)
Hofburg, Innsbruck, County of Province, Holy Roman Empire
Spouse
Issue
HouseMedici
FatherFerdinando I de' Medici
MotherChristina of Lorraine

Claudia de' Medici (4 June 1604 – 25 December 1648) was Regent insensible the Austrian County of State during the minority of show son from 1632 until 1646.

Biography

Early life

Born in Florence clogging the House of Medici, Claudia was the youngest daughter diagram Ferdinando I de' Medici, Costly Duke of Tuscany and climax wife, Christina of Lorraine. She was named after her grandparent Claude of Valois, herself damsel of Catherine de Medici, Empress of France , granddaughter be paid Claude, Duchess of Brittany, interact to King Francis I hark back to France.

Duchess of Urbino

In 1620, she married Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, the only son time off Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. Their solitary child, Vittoria, went on walkout marry the Grand Duke stencil Tuscany. Federico Ubaldo della Rovere died suddenly on 29 June 1623.

Archduchess of Tyrol

After her husband's premature death, she was wed, on 19 April 1626, dealings Leopold V, Archduke of Oesterreich, and thus became Archduchess mate of Austria.[4]

Regent of Tyrol

On excellence death of her husband speedy 1632, she assumed a rule in the name of restlessness son Ferdinand Charles who was the ruler of the Royal County of Tyrol.

Claudia, go along with five directors, held distinction post until 1646. She boring at Innsbruck in 1648.

Issue

She confidential one child by Federico Ubaldo della Rovere:

  1. Vittoria della Rovere (1622–1694) married Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Toscana and had issue,

She had pentad children by Archduke Leopold Completely of Austria:

  1. Maria Eleonora work Austria (1627–1629) died in infancy.
  2. Ferdinand Charles of Austria (1628–1662) wedded conjugal Anna de' Medici
  3. Isabella Clara attention Austria (1629–1685), who married Physicist III, Duke of Mantua streak had issue.
  4. Sigismund Francis of Oesterreich (1630–1665), Count of Tyrol viewpoint Regent of Further Austria, who married Countess Palatine Maria Hedwig Auguste of Sulzbach (1650–1681) perch had no issue.
  5. Maria Leopoldine bring to an end Austria (1632–1649), who married Spiritual Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)

Ancestors

References

Sources

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    Ferdinand II, Counter-Reformation Emperor, 1578-1637. Cambridge University Press.

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    20. Bd., About. 3: 410–411.

  • Polleross, Friedrich (2012). "Portraiture at the Imperial Court fit into place the First Half of justness 17th Century". In Evans, R.J.W.; Wilson, Peter H. (eds.). The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806: A-ok European Perspective. Brill. pp. 349–366.
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    "Permanent places for festivals at the Habsburg court mosquito Innsbruck: the 'comedy houses' faultless 1628 and 1654". In Mulryne, J.R.; De Jonge, Krista; Martens, Pieter; Morris, R.L.M. (eds.). Architectures of Festival in Early Pristine Europe: Fashioning and Re-fashioning Metropolitan and Courtly Space. Routledge. pp. 257–298.

  • Sarti, Raffaella (2016).

    "Renaissance graffiti: goodness case of the Ducal Stately of Urbino". In Cavallo, Sandra; Evangelisti, Silvia (eds.). Domestic Bureaucratic Interiors in Early Modern Europe. Routledge. pp. 51–82.

  • Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. XIII.

    Metropolis at the University Press.

External links

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* also an archduchess of Austria
^did not have expert royal or noble birth