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Clarice de' Medici | |
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 Portrait of Clarice de' Medici | |
| Full name | Clarice di Piero de' Medici |
| Born | 1489 Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Died | 1528 (age 38-39) Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Noble family | Medici |
| Spouse(s) | Filippo Strozzi the Younger |
| Issue | Piero Strozzi Roberto Strozzi Maria Strozzi Leone Strozzi Giulio Strozzi Vincenzo Strozzi Alessandro Strozzi Luigia Strozzi Cardinal Lorenzo Strozzi |
| Father | Piero the Unfortunate |
| Mother | Alfonsina Orsini |
Clarice di Piero de' Medici (1489–1528)[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:
- Piero Strozzi (about 1510 - 21 June 1558), condottiero and Marshal of France
- Roberto Strozzi (died 1566), married Maddalena di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (Florence, c. 1523 - Rome, 14 April 1583), daughter of Pierfrancesco II de' Medici
- Maria Strozzi, married Lorenzo Ridolfi
- Leone Strozzi (15 October 1515 - 28 June 1554), condottiero and Knight of Malta
- Giulio Strozzi (died 1537)
- Vincenzo Strozzi (died Rome, c. 1537)
- Alessandro Strozzi (died 1541)
- Luigia Strozzi (died 1534), married Senator Luigi Capponi (patrician of Florence)
- Maddalena Strozzi, married Count Flaminio dell'Anguillara
- Lorenzo Strozzi (3 December 1513 - 14 December 1571), abbot and Cardinal
She died in 1528 from either miscarriage or childbirth complications of a stillborn child
- ^ Tomas 2003, p. 7.
- ^ 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.