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    • September 25, 1534September 25, 1534
  2. Clement VII died just two days later, on 25 September 1534, having lived 56 years and four months, reigning for 10 years, 10 months, and 7 days.

  3. May 22, 2024 · Clement VII (born May 26, 1478, Florence [Italy]—died September 25, 1534, Rome) was the pope from 1523 to 1534. An illegitimate son of Giuliano de’ Medici (not to be confused with Giuliano de’ Medici, duc de Nemours, his cousin), he was reared by his uncle Lorenzo the Magnificent.

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  4. Clement VII, orig. Giulio de’ Medici, (born May 26, 1478, Florence—died Sept. 25, 1534, Rome), Pope (152334). The illegitimate son of Giuliano de’ Medici ( see Medici family ), he was raised by his uncle Lorenzo de’ Medici. In 1513 he was made archbishop of Florence and cardinal by his cousin Pope Leo X. He commissioned art from ...

  5. May 23, 2018 · Pope Clement VII began his life as Giulio de' Medici on May 26, 1478, in Florence, Italy. He was the illegitimate son of Giuliano de' Medici, of the famed Medici family of Florence, who was murdered about a month before his birth.

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    Clement VII started life as Giulio, a member of the Medici family in Italy. Just before his birth, his father visited the Florence Cathedral and was murdered. No records indicate his mother, but he spent much of his early life under the care of an architect who was also his godfather. Lorenzo the Magnificent took him in and treated him as his natur...

    Known as Cardinal Medici during his later years, he supported the election of Adrian VI. After the pope passed away and Medici spoke out against the King of France, the cardinals decided that he would make a good pope. They elected him in 1523 in part because they thought he could end the war with France.

    Clement VII continued the feud between Rome and France when he refused to let King Henry VIII divorce his wife. One of his nieces would later marry a man who became Henry II. He also made Charles V the Holy Roman Emperor. Known for his love of artwork, he commissioned several works that led to art historians nicknaming the art created during this e...

    Clement VII was born on May 26, 1478, in Florence, which was then part of the Republic of Florence.
    His birth name was Giulio di Giuliano de’ Medici.
    The pope died on September 25, 1534.
    He was 56 when he passed away in Rome. Though there were rumors that he died after eating poisonous mushrooms, there is no evidence that this is true.
    Pope Clement VII may have had a son with a servant before becoming the pope. Records show that the servant’s son, Alessandro, was her child with Lorenzo Medici. Scholars today believe that he was l...
    Clement VII was the second member of the Medici family to become a pope. His cousin was Pope Leo X. Following Clement’s death, he was buried close to his cousin in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva.
    Despite the lack of evidence to prove his mother, some historians think if was Fioretta Gorini. She had a long relationship with the pope’s father and appears in some records as his mother. The wom...
    During his reign as pope, Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint “The Last Judgment,” a painting that is still on display in the Sistine Chapel.
  6. Born 1478; died 25 September, 1534. Giulio de' Medici was born a few months after the death of his father, Giuliano, who was slain at Florence in the disturbances which followed the Pazzi conspiracy.

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  8. By Costanza Beltrami. Pope Clement VII, a key player in the historical and artistic events of the High Renaissance, died on 25 September 1534 in Rome. Clement VII was born Giulio de’ Medici in Florence on 26 May 1478.

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