Claudia de' Medici
| Claudia de' Medici | |
|---|---|
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) |
| Issue |
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| House | Medici |
| Father | Ferdinando I de' Medici |
| Mother | Christina of Lorraine |
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Claudia de' Medici (4 June 1604 – 25 December 1648) was Regent of the Austrian County of Tyrol during the minority of her son from 1632 until 1646.
Biography
Early life
Born in
Claude, Duchess of Brittany, consort to King Francis I of France
.
Duchess of Urbino
In 1620, she married
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:
- 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.
- Anna de' Medici[1]
- Charles III, Duke of Mantuaand had issue.
- 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
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References
- ^ a b Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. table 69.
- ^ a b c Sarti 2016, p. 54.
- ^ Clough 1981, p. 185.
- ^ Sandbichler 2017, p. 258.
- ^ Crinò 1976, p. 410.
- ^ Polleross 2012, p. 360-361.
- ^ Bireley 2014, p. 315.
Sources
- 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.
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