Anna de' Medici (1569–1584)

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Anna de' Medici
Princess of Tuscany
Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
MotherJoanna of Austria

Anna de' Medici (31 December 1569 – 19 February 1584) was the third child of

Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Joanna of Austria. She was a member of the famous House of Medici
.

Life

Anna was the third child of Grand Duke Francesco and Archduchess Joanna. She had two surviving sisters, Eleanor, Duchess of Mantua, and Marie, Queen of France.

Francesco betrothed Anna in 1578 to

Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain
, daughter of King Philip.

Anna soon became sickly and was dying. On 19 February 1584, her sister Eleanor sent a letter to their father on Anna's behalf requesting him to come and visit her before she died. Anna died that same day,[3] aged only fourteen.

Ancestry

References

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