Eleanor de' Medici

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

Eleanor de' Medici (28 February 1567 – 9 September 1611) was a

Queen of France
.

Early life

Eleanor, born Eleonora, was born in

Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte an adoptive nephew of Pope Julius III.[3] Cardinal Spinello de' Benci performed the ceremony on behalf of Pope Pius V.[4] The baptism was celebrated also with hunting excursions and parties.[5]

It was at first believed Eleanor would marry

Cosimo sent her flasks of holy water as she recovered from her illness.[9]

In 1574 when Eleanor was seven years of age, her grandfather Cosimo died so her father became Grand Duke of Tuscany. In 1578, when Eleanor was eleven her mother died,

Louis XIII of France. Another sister, Anna, died at the age of 14; Eleanor wrote to her father on behalf of the dying Anna, who wished to see her father, but Anna died the same day.[12]
The rest of Eleanor and Marie's siblings also died during childhood.

Duchess of Mantua

Wedding and Celebrations

Marriage of Eleanor de' Medici and Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga

Medici married

Vincenzo I Gonzaga on 29 April 1584,[13][14] as his second wife after he divorced Margherita Farnese. Celebrations for the signing of the marriage contract on 4 April 1584 took place in Mantua, including bells ringing and fireworks being set off. Eight days after the celebrations, the couple traveled to Florence to meet Eleanor's father Grand Duke Francesco and her stepmother Bianca Cappello. At this point Vincenzo kept a portrait of Eleanor by his bed.[15] On 10 April, Francesco sent a letter to Philip II of Spain asking for permission for Eleanor and Vincenzo to be married,[16] although Francesco also wished for proof of his son-in-law's fertility before concluding marriage negotiations.[17]

On 3 May 1584, Eleanor arrived in Mantua. After arriving by boat, Eleanor disembarked at

Guglielmo Gonzaga and Eleanor of Austria. After a meal she was accompanied by Cardinals Gianfrancesco Gambara and Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga di Guastalla by boat to Palazzo Te, where she was visited by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese and Duke of Parma.[18]

Duchess consort of Mantua

Eleanor initially had several portraits commissioned to be made of her deceased mother Joanna as well as her deceased siblings Anna and Filippo, but was unhappy with the length of time taken to paint the portraits.

plums.[20] The following year, Eleanor's father-in-law Guglielmo died, Vincenzo becoming Duke of Mantua whilst Eleanor served as his Duchess consort. The same year, she gave birth to a second son, Ferdinando after a difficult pregnancy.[21] In the following years, Eleanor had further children: firstly a son, Guglielmo Domenico in 1589, who died young, then in 1591 a daughter, Margherita, who married Henry II, Duke of Lorraine, followed by a son, Vincenzo in 1594, who succeeded his older brothers. She then suffered a miscarriage in 1596, four months into pregnancy [22] and in 1598 she gave birth to a second daughter, also named Eleanor, who married Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
.

In October 1600, Eleanor attended the wedding of her sister Marie to

Louis XIII of France; Marie made her sister Eleanor the godmother of the child.[23]

In 1602, Vincenzo traveled to Flanders in search of medical treatment, he left Eleanor in control of the duchy.[24] In this time she sent Ferdinando I de' Medici a list of men condemned to the galleys, in the letter she informed Ferdinando of her post whilst her husband was away.[25] During the winter of 1603–1604,

Galileo visited the Mantuan court in an effort to obtain a position there, and was offered a salary, but could not agree on the terms with Vincenzo, who instead presented Galileo with a gold chain and two silver dishes. In 1606, Eleanor accompanied her daughter Margherita to Lorraine for her marriage to Duke Henry.[26]

Death and funeral

Eleanor fell ill in the first quarter of 1611 with a prolonged illness, but seemed to recover by April.[27] She retired for two months to the Palazzo di Porto in Porto Mantovano, "one mile from the city and beautiful for its gardens and fresh water." With the arrival of hotter weather, Eleanor moved north to the hill-top fortified villa at Cavriana. There, on the day after the Feast of the Birth of the Virgin, her health rapidly declined and died on 9 September 1611, aged forty four.[28] At the time of her death, her husband Duke Vincenzo was in Casale Monferrato; he outlived her by only one year, dying in 1612.[29]

After her death, Eleanor's body was placed in a "lead casket" (which in turn was placed inside a wooden casket sealed with pitch and draped with a black velvet cloth), and accompanied by "numerous priests from the outlying towns" to the parish church of Cavriana, where she lay in state for two days. Next her body was transported to Mantua on a "cart draped with black fabric" and pulled by six horses caparisoned in black and accompanied by twelve "priests on horseback" and twelve "foot attendants bearing burning torches" and followed by twelve carriages carrying members of the Gonzaga family and twelve carts, also covered in black. Eleanor's body was then taken to the Corte Vecchia where her body was deposited to await the return of Vincenzo.[citation needed]

When Duke Vincenzo returned to Mantua on 3 October 1611, plans were made for Eleanor's funeral to be held on the Feast of Saint Francesco (it was then delayed by a few days so that preparations in

Bishop of Casale, since the bishop of Mantua, Annibale ("Francesco") Gonzaga di Bozzolo, was ill. The procession on foot that accompanied Eleanor's body from the oratory in the Corte Vecchia to Sant'Andrea was led by the "gonfalone" of the principal church and followed in order by members of the city's various civic and religious institutions, including: the misericordia, the city's various hospitals, schools, and churches (including the abbots of each).[30]

Ancestry

See also

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