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    Gian Gastone de' Medici (born Giovanni Battista Gastone; 24 May 1671 – 9 July 1737) was the seventh and last Medicean grand duke of Tuscany. He was the...
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    territorial expansion. The Medici ruled the Grand Duchy from its inception until 1737, with the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici. The grand duchy witnessed...
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    upon the death of his younger child, Gian Gastone, Tuscany passed to the House of Lorraine. Cosimo de' Medici was born on 14 August 1642, the eldest...
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    July 1697 Gian Gastone de' Medici married Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, heiress of the eponymous duchy, in Düsseldorf. Gian Gastone's wife repulsed...
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    power of the Medici, [dubious – discuss] who thereafter ruled Florence until the death of the last of the Medici rulers, Gian Gastone de' Medici, in 1737...
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  • antiquarian Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany Gian Francesco Albani, Italian Catholic cardinal Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer Gian Galeazzo...
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    the death of last of the Medici Grand Dukes, Gian Gastone de' Medici, instead of the Habsburg-Lorraine line, since both Medici branches were closer descendants...
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    Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg (category House of Medici)
    Four years later, she married Gian Gastone de' Medici, a Prince of Tuscany. With her brother-in-law Ferdinando de' Medici's death in 1713, her husband became...
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  • Italian aristocrat Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1671–1737), the seventh and last Medicean Grand Duke of Tuscany Gastone (Petrolini), Italian...
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    Theresa was Duchess of Lorraine. Gian Gastone de' Medici, who died on 9 July 1737, was the second cousin of Francis (Gian Gastone and Francis' father Leopold...
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    Giuliano Dami (category House of Medici)
    Camera) of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1723 – 1737). He is known for the "magnetic influence" he exercised on the last Medici Grand Duke...
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    time, against her wishes, on 2 July 1697 in Düsseldorf to Prince Gian Gastone de' Medici, a younger son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to whom she brought...
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    Strathern, p. 375 Acton, p. 30 I Medici Visti da Dietro: Ferdinando II (1610–1670) e Giovan Gastone (o Giangastone) de' Medici (1671–1737) (IT) Hale, p. 179...
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    Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany. The last member of the Medici dynasty to be a leader of the order was Gian Gastone de Medici in 1737...
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    Cosimo di Giovanni de' Medici (27 September 1389 – 1 August 1464) was an Italian banker and politician who established the Medici family as effective rulers...
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    elevated position. After the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici in 1737, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Medici's assets, including their villas, were...
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    Giuliano de' Medici (28 October 1453 – 26 April 1478) was the second son of Piero de' Medici (the Gouty) and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of Florence...
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    Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (Italian: [loˈrɛntso de ˈmɛːditʃi]), known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Italian: Lorenzo il Magnifico; 1 January 1449 – 8 April...
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    Averardo de' Medici (1320 – 1363), also known as Everard De Medici or Bicci to disambiguate with his two homonymous ancestors, was the son of Salvestro de' Medici...
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    Duke of the Florentine Republic (category House of Medici)
    ducal title. The Medici continued to rule over Florence and Tuscany until their extinction in 1737 after the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, who had no children...
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    1737, on the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, the last Medici ruler of Tuscany, Cafaggiolo came into the possession of the Medici's successors, the House...
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    Marie de' Medici (French: Marie de Médicis; Italian: Maria de' Medici; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife...
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  • Mancini (1646-1699) (lover of Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex) Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1671-1737) Giuliano Dami (1683-1750) Cardinal...
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    Ippolito de' Medici (March 1511 – 10 August 1535) was the only son of Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, born out of wedlock to his mistress Pacifica Brandano...
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    Pieratti from the early seventeenth century, donated in 1731 by Gian Gastone de' Medici. Vasari was the architect, commissioned in 1567 by Grand Duke Cosimo...
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  • Medici villas Villa del Trebbio Villa di Castello Santi Severino e Sossio, Naples Wikimedia Commons has media related to House of Medici. History of Florence...
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    Catherine de' Medici (Italian: Caterina de' Medici, pronounced [kateˈriːna de ˈmɛːditʃi]; French: Catherine de Médicis, pronounced [katʁin də medisis];...
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    The Venus de' Medici or Medici Venus is a 1.53 m (5 ft 0 in) tall Hellenistic marble sculpture depicting the Greek goddess of love Aphrodite. It is a 1st-century...
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    Grand Duchy of Tuscany (category House of Medici)
    younger son, Francesco Maria de' Medici. They reverted to the crown with the ascension of Gian Gastone. Gian Gastone, the last Medici, resigned the grand duchy...
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    1569 by a papal bull of Pope Pius V to Cosimo I de' Medici, member of the illustrious House of Medici. His coronation took place in Rome on March 5, 1570...
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