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Clarice de' Medici

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Clarice de' Medici
Portrait of Clarice de' Medici
Full name
Clarice di Piero de' Medici
Born14 September 1489
Florence, Republic of Florence
Died3 May 1528(1528-05-03) (aged 38)
Florence, Republic of Florence
Noble familyMedici (birth)
Strozzi (marriage)
Spouse(s)
(m. 1508)
IssuePiero Strozzi
Maria Strozzi
Leone Strozzi
Luisa Strozzi
Roberto Strozzi
Maddalena Strozzi
Giulio Strozzi
Lorenzo Strozzi
Vincenzo Strozzi
Alessandro Strozzi
FatherPiero the Unfortunate
MotherAlfonsina Orsini

Clarice di Piero de' Medici (14 September 1489 – 3 May 1528)[1] was the daughter of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini.

Born in Florence, she was the granddaughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, niece of Pope Leo X and sister to Lorenzo II de' Medici. After her brother's premature death in 1519, she educated his daughter Catherine, the future Queen of France.

In 1508 she married Filippo Strozzi the Younger and moved to Rome.[2] Filippo and Clarice had ten children:


She died in 1528 from either miscarriage or childbirth complications of a stillborn child

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^ Tomas 2003, p. 7.
  2. ^ Landon, William J. (2013). Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442699489. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

Sources

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  • Tomas, Natalie R. (2003). The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0754607771.