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Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537. [2] The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last Medici from the senior ...
- 1 May 1532 – 6 January 1537
- Cosimo I de' Medici
History The heraldic achievement of the Medici, the family to which the two Dukes of the Florentine Republic belonged.. In 1532, Pope Clement VII, who was born Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici, appointed Alessandro de' Medici as duke over the Republic of Florence, the Medici family having acted as de facto rulers over the city of Florence since 1434 when Cosimo "the Elder" de' Medici (also known ...
Alessandro was the first duke of Florence (1532–37). Alessandro was born to unmarried parents. His paternity is ascribed either to Lorenzo de’ Medici (1492–1519), duke of Urbino, or, with more likelihood, to Giulio de’ Medici, nephew of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
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Duke of Florence. Pope Clement VII and Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, came to an agreement in 1529 and a year later, Florence was back under the control of the Medici family after an 11-month siege of the city. Clement chose Alessandro over Ippolito to be the head of the Florence state and by 1532 he’d been made a hereditary Duke.
The Duchy of Florence (Italian: Ducato di Firenze) was an Italian principality that was centred on the city of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy.The duchy was founded after Pope Clement VII, himself a Medici, appointed his relative Alessandro de' Medici as Duke of the Florentine Republic, thereby transforming the Republic of Florence into a hereditary monarchy.
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Medici family - Grand Dukes, Tuscany, Renaissance: Alessandro’s death did not terminate the Medici family’s power in Florence. A younger branch of the family, descendants of the Lorenzo who had been the brother of Cosimo the Elder, now came forward. Cosimo de’ Medici (1519–74), great-great-grandson of Lorenzo, became duke of Florence, then grand duke of Tuscany (1569), and reigned as ...
Alessandro wielded great power as the first duke of Florence. He was the patron of some of the leading artists of the era and is one of the two Medici princes whose remains are buried in the ...
