Duca Cosimo di Medici, I, "the Great"

1519 - 1574  (54 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Cosimo di Medici
  Prefix	Duca
  Suffix	I, "the Great"
  Birth	12 Jun 1519	Firenze, Toscana, Italia
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Apr 1574	Villa Di Castello, Italia
  Nr. Firenze
  Person ID	I52986	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2008

  
  

  Father	Giovanni di Medici, "delle Bande Nere",   b. 6 Apr 1498, Forli, Italia d. 30 Nov 1526, Mantua, Lombardia, Italia (Age 28 years)
  Mother	Maria Salviati,   b. 17 Jul 1499, Firenze, Toscana, Italia d. 12 Dec 1543, Villa de Castello (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	17 Nov 1516	Firenze, Toscana, Italia
  Family ID	F21609	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Marquesa Leonor Álvarez de Toledo,   b. 1522, Toledo, Castilla–La Mancha, España d. 17 Dec 1562, Pisa, Italia (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	1539
  12 children
  Children	1. Maria di Medici,   b. 1540   d. 1557 (Age 17 years) + 2. Duca Francesco Maria di Medici, I,   b. 25 Mar 1541, Firenze, Toscana, Italia d. 17 Oct 1587, Firenze /Poggio a Caian (Age 46 years) + 3. Isabella di Medici,   b. 31 Aug 1542   d. 16 Jul 1576 (Age 33 years)   4. Cardinal Giovanni di Medici,   b. 1543   d. 1562 (Age 19 years)   5. Lucretia di Medici,   b. 1545   d. 1562 (Age 17 years)   6. Peter di Medici,   b. 10 Aug 1546   d. 10 Jun 1547 (Age 0 years)   7. Garzia di Medici,   b. 1547   d. 1562 (Age 15 years)   8. Antonio di Medici,   b. 1548   d. 1548 (Age 0 years) + 9. Duca Ferdinando I di Medici,   b. 1549   d. 7 Feb 1609 (Age 60 years)   10. Anna di Medici,   b. 1553   d. 1553 (Age 0 years)   11. Pierro di Medici,   b. 1554   d. 1604 (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F21608	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2008

  
  

  Children	1. Giovanni di Medici   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F66098	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 3	Camilla Martelli,   b. 1545   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1570
  Children	+ 1. Princess Virgina di Medici,   b. 29 May 1568, Firenze, Toscana, Italia d. 15 Jan 1615 (Age 46 years)
  Family ID	F32798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

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  		Birth - 12 Jun 1519 - Firenze, Toscana, Italia Death - 21 Apr 1574 - Villa Di Castello, Italia  = Link to Google Earth
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  The most outstanding of the Popolani was the son of Giovanni dalle Bande Nere and Maria Salviati, Cosimo, who at this time preparing to assume control of the city. Cosimo was the first true duke of Florence, later created grand duke, by Pope Pio V, and it was he who laid the foundations of the Medicean principality that was to continue without interruption for the next two centuries. Cosimo extended his dominion to the whole of Tuscany; in April 1555, after a ruthless siege, he subdued his most implacable enemy, the Republic of Siena and when in 1559 Montalcino also surrended to him, his campaign was complete and Tuscany had become a single unified state. His military conquests over, Cosimo proved his true greatness in his peacetime achievements. At his instigation work was begun on the construction of the port of Livorno (Leghorn); methods of agricolture were improved by the use of the most modern equipment then available; the country areas were repopulated, and even in the Maremma region redevelopment projects were attempted. New works of art and architecture enriched the cities of Tuscany, and not just Florence, the capital. The Duchy of Florence became a Granduchy, by order of the emperor, and Cosimo established his absolute despotic control over the entire region: He was anything but a democrat and showed this most clearly by trasferring his court from the Medici palace on via Larga to Palazzo Vecchio, which had been since earliest medieval times the center of civic power. In 1539 he married Eleonora, the daughter of the viceroy of Naples, Don Pedro of Toledo who gave him a lot of children. Großherzog v. Toscana 1537 Herzog von Florenz, 1537 Sieg in der Schlacht von Montemurlo, 1557 Erwerb von Siena, 1569/27.8.1570 Grossherzog v.Toskana (durch Papst)