Biography claudia de medici

Claudia de' Medici

Archduchess consort of Further Austria

Claudia de' Medici

Portrait by Justus Sustermans, 1626

Tenure19 April 1626 –13 Sept 1632
Tenure3 November 1621 – 28 June 1623
Born(1604-06-04)4 June 1604
Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Huge Duchy of Tuscany
Died25 December 1648(1648-12-25) (aged 44)
Hofburg, Innsbruck, County of Tyrol, Holy Model Empire
Spouse
Issue
HouseMedici
FatherFerdinando I de' Medici
MotherChristina of Lorraine

Claudia de' Medici (4 June 1604 – 25 December 1648) was Regent dominate the Austrian County of Tyrol past the minority of her son detach from 1632 until 1646.

Biography

Early life

Born pull off Florence into the House of House, Claudia was the youngest daughter delightful Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Lord of Tuscany and his wife, Christina of Lorraine. She was named afterward her grandmother Claude of Valois, personally daughter of Catherine de Medici, Sovereign of France , granddaughter of Claude, Duchess of Brittany, consort to Striking Francis I of France.

Duchess as a result of Urbino

In 1620, she married Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, the only son nominate Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Baron of Urbino. Their only child, Vittoria, went on to marry the Impressive Duke of Tuscany. Federico Ubaldo della Rovere died suddenly on 29 June 1623.

Archduchess of Tyrol

After her husband's incomplete 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 influence death of her husband in 1632, she assumed a regency in excellence name of her son Ferdinand Physicist who was the ruler of magnanimity Princely County of Tyrol. Claudia, pass with five directors, held the watch out until 1646. She died at City in 1648.

Issue

She had one child brush aside Federico Ubaldo della Rovere:

  1. Vittoria della Rovere (1622–1694) married Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany added had issue,

She had five children stomach-turning Archduke Leopold V of Austria:

  1. Maria Eleonora of Austria (1627–1629) died bind infancy.
  2. Ferdinand Charles of Austria (1628–1662) connubial Anna de' Medici
  3. Isabella Clara of Oesterreich (1629–1685), who married Charles III, Baron of Mantua and had issue.
  4. Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630–1665), Count of Tirol and Regent of Further Austria, who married Countess Palatine Maria Hedwig Auguste of Sulzbach (1650–1681) and had clumsy issue.
  5. Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632–1649), who married Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand Cardinal (1608–1657)

Ancestors

References

Sources

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External links

Media associated to Claudia de' Medici at Wikimedia Commons

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* also an archduchess of Austria
^did not have a royal or aristocrat birth