Claudia de' Medici
| Claudia de' Medici | |
|---|---|
Portrait by Justus Sustermans, 1626
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| Archduchess consort of Further Austria | |
| Tenure | 19 April 1626 –13 September 1632 |
| Duchess consort of Urbino | |
| Tenure | 3 November 1621 – 28 June 1623 |
| Born | 4 June 1604 Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany |
| Died | 25 December 1648 (aged 44) Hofburg, Innsbruck, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire |
| Spouse | Federico della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (m. 1621; died 1623) Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (m. 1626; died 1632) |
| Issue | Vittoria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany Archduke Ferdinand Charles Isabella Clara, Duchess of Mantua Archduke Sigismund Francis Maria Leopoldine, Holy Roman Empress |
| House | Medici |
| Father | Ferdinando I de' Medici |
| Mother | Christina of Lorraine |
Claudia de' Medici (4 June 1604 – 25 December 1648) was by birth a Tuscan princess and by her marriage to Leopold V an archduchess of Austria and from 1632 until 1646 regent of the Austrian County of Tyrol during the minority of her son Ferdinand Charles.
Biography
Early life
Born in Florence into the House of Medici, Claudia was the youngest daughter of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and his wife, Christina of Lorraine.[1] She was named after her grandmother Claude of Valois.
Duchess of Urbino
In 1620, she married Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, the only son of Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino.[2] Their only child, Vittoria, went on to marry the Grand Duke of Tuscany.[2] Federico Ubaldo della Rovere died suddenly on 29 June 1623.[3]
Archduchess of Tyrol
After her husband's premature death, she was married, on 19 April 1626, to Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, and thus became Archduchess consort of Austria.[4]
Regent of Tyrol
On the death of her husband in 1632, she assumed a regency in the name of her son Ferdinand Charles who was the ruler of the Princely County of Tyrol. Claudia, along with five directors, held the post until 1646. She died at Innsbruck in 1648.[5]
Issue
She had one child by Federico Ubaldo della Rovere:
- Vittoria della Rovere (1622–1694) married Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and had issue,[2]
She had five children by Archduke Leopold V of Austria:
- Maria Eleonora of Austria (1627–1629) died in infancy.
- Ferdinand Charles of Austria (1628–1662) married Anna de' Medici[1]
- Isabella Clara of Austria (1629–1685), who married Charles III, Duke of Mantua and had issue.
- Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630–1665), Count of Tyrol and Regent of Further Austria, who married Countess Palatine Maria Hedwig Auguste of Sulzbach (1650–1681) and had no issue.
- Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632–1649),[6] who married Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)[7]
Ancestors
- Ancestors of Claudia de' Medici
- 16. Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici
- 8. Ludovico di Giovanni de' Medici
- 17. Caterina Sforza
- 4. Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
- 18. Jacopo Salviati
- 9. Maria Salviati
- 19. Lucrezia de' Medici
- 2. Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
- 20. Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez de Guzmán
- 10. Pedro de Toledo y Zúñiga
- 21. Isabel de Zúñiga y Pimentel
- 5. Eleanor of Toledo
- 22. Luis Pimentel y Pacheco
- 11. María Osorio y Pimentel
- 23. Juana Osorio y Bazán
- 1. Claudia de' Medici
- 24. Anthony, Duke of Lorraine
- 12. Francis I, Duke of Lorraine
- 25. Renée of Bourbon
- 6. Charles III, Duke of Lorraine
- 26. Christian II of Denmark
- 13. Christina of Denmark
- 27. Isabella of Austria
- 3. Christina of Lorraine
- 28. Francis I of France
- 14. Henry II of France
- 29. Claude, Duchess of Brittany
- 7. Claude of Valois
- 30. Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino
- 15. Catherine de' Medici
- 31. Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne
References
- Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. table 69.
- Back to citation occurrence 2.0 Back to citation occurrence 2.1 Back to citation occurrence 2.2 Sarti 2016, p. 54.
- Back to citation Clough 1981, p. 185.
- Back to citation Sandbichler 2017, p. 258.
- Back to citation Crinò 1976, p. 410.
- Back to citation Polleross 2012, p. 360-361.
- Back to citation Bireley 2014, p. 315.
Bibliography
- Bireley, Robert (2014). Ferdinand II, Counter-Reformation Emperor, 1578-1637. Cambridge University Press.
- Clough, Cecil H. (1981). The Duchy of Urbino in the Renaissance. Variorum Reprints.
- Crinò, Anna Maria (1976). "Un quadro incompiuto di Guido Reni". Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz. 20. Bd., H. 3: 410–411.
- Polleross, Friedrich (2012). "Portraiture at the Imperial Court in the First Half of the 17th Century". In Evans, R.J.W; Wilson, Peter H. (eds.). The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806: A European Perspective. Brill. pp. 349–366.
- Sandbichler, Veronika (2017). "Permanent places for festivals at the Habsburg court in Innsbruck: the 'comedy houses' of 1628 and 1654". In Mulryne, J.R; De Jonge, Krista; Martens, Pieter; Morris, R.L.M. (eds.). Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space. Routledge. pp. 257–298.
- Sarti, Raffaella (2016). "Renaissance graffiti: the case of the Ducal Palace of Urbino". In Cavallo, Sandra; Evangelisti, Silvia (eds.). Domestic Institutional 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. Cambridge at the University Press.
External links
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