Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours

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Giuliano de' Medici
Medici
Spouse(s)Filiberta of Savoy
IssueIppolito de' Medici (illegitimate)
FatherLorenzo I de' Medici
MotherClarice Orsini

Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici KG (12 March 1479 – 17 March 1516) was an Italian nobleman, the third son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, and a ruler of Florence.

Biography

Medici Chapel, created by Michelangelo

Born in Florence, he was raised with his brothers

Piero and Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, who became Pope Leo X; as well as his cousin Giulio de' Medici, who became Pope Clement VII
.

His older brother Piero was briefly the ruler of

Holy League drove the French forces that had supported the Florentine republicans from Italy. This effort was headed by Spain with the support of Pope Julius II
. Giuliano reigned in Florence following his brother's election to the papacy in 1513, until he died in 1516.

He married Filiberta (1498–1524), daughter of

Lorenzo II de' Medici
.

Giuliano left a single illegitimate son, Ippolito de' Medici, who became a cardinal.

His portrait, painted in Rome by

Raphael (a painter favored by Leo), shows Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo behind a curtain. (A studio version is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
.)

Giuliano's tomb in the

Pazzi Conspiracy
.

Ancestry

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