Clarice de' Medici
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| Full name | Clarice di Piero de' Medici |
| Born | 14 September 1489 Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Died | 3 May 1528 (aged 38) Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Noble family | Medici (birth) Strozzi (marriage) |
| Spouse | Filippo Strozzi the Younger (m. 1508) |
| Issue | Piero Strozzi Maria Strozzi Leone Strozzi Luisa Strozzi Roberto Strozzi Maddalena Strozzi Giulio Strozzi Lorenzo Strozzi Vincenzo Strozzi Alessandro Strozzi |
| Father | Piero the Unfortunate |
| Mother | Alfonsina Orsini |
Clarice di Piero de' Medici (14 September 1489 – 3 May 1528)[1] was the daughter of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini.
Born in Florence, she was the granddaughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, niece of Pope Leo X and sister to Lorenzo II de' Medici. After her brother's premature death in 1519, she educated his daughter Catherine, the future Queen of France.
In 1508 she married Filippo Strozzi the Younger and moved to Rome.[2] Filippo and Clarice had ten children:
- Piero Strozzi (1 March 1511 - 21 June 1558), condottiero and Marshal of France
- Maria Strozzi (13 August 1514, died between 1551 and 1575), married Lorenzo Ridolfi in 1529.
- Leone Strozzi (15 October 1515 - 28 June 1554), condottiero and Knight of Malta
- Luisa Strozzi (died 5 December 1534), married Senator Luigi Capponi in 1533.
- Roberto Strozzi (12 October 1520 - 1566), married Maddalena di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (Florence, c. 1523 - Rome, 14 April 1583), daughter of Pierfrancesco II de' Medici
- Maddalena Strozzi (1521-1596), married Count Flaminio dell'Anguillara in 1538.
- Giulio Strozzi (1522 - 14 December 1537)
- Lorenzo Strozzi (3 December 1523 - 14 December 1571), abbot and Cardinal
- Vincenzo Strozzi (died Rome, 1537). He was mad
- Alessandro Strozzi (died 31 October 1541)
She died in 1528 from either miscarriage or childbirth complications of a stillborn child
Ancestry
- Ancestors of Clarice de' Medici
- 16. Cosimo de' Medici
- 8. Piero de' Medici
- 17. Contessina de' Bardi
- 4. Lorenzo de' Medici
- 18. Francesco Tornabuoni
- 9. Lucrezia Tornabuoni
- 19. Nanna Guicciardini
- 2. Piero de' Medici
- 20. Orso Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo
- 10. Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo
- 21. Lucrezia Conti
- 5. Clarissa Orsini
- 22. Carlo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano (= 12)
- 11. Maddalena Orsini
- 23. Paola Orsini (= 13)
- 1. Clarice de' Medici
- 24. Giovanni Orsini, Lord of Bracciano
- 12. Carlo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano
- 25. Bartolomea Spinelli
- 6. Roberto Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo
- 26. Giacomo Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo
- 13. Paola Orsini
- 27. Isabella Marzano
- 3. Alfonsina Orsini
- 28. Filippo Sanseverino, Count of Matera
- 14. Amerigo Sanseverino, Count of Capaccio
- 29. Elisabetta d'Aquino
- 7. Caterina Sanseverino
- 30. Antonio Sanseverino, Duke of San Marco
- 15. Margherita Sanseverino
- 31. Giovanna Orsini
References
- Back to citation Tomas 2003, p. 7.
- Back to citation Landon, William J. (2013). Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442699489. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
Bibliography
- Tomas, Natalie R. (2003). The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0754607771.