Medici, Lorenzo II de
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| Birthname | Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici | ||||
| born on | 12 September 1492 Jul.Cal. (21 Sep 1492 greg.) at 12:20 (= 12:20 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Florence, Italy, 43n46, 11e15 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT h0e45 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   28°46'   15°34 Asc. 13°42'
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Biography
Italian nobleman of the powerful House of Medici, he was the ruler of Florence from 1516 until his death in 1519. He was also Duke of Urbino during the same period. His daughter Catherine de' Medici became Queen Consort of France, while his illegitimate son, Alessandro de' Medici, became the first Duke of Florence.
Lorenzo was a son of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini. His paternal grandparents were Lorenzo the Magnificent and Clarice Orsini.
In 1510, while the Medici family were living near Rome, a black servant in their household - identified in documents as Simonetta da Collevecchio - gave birth to a son, Alessandro de' Medici, whom Lorenzo officially recognized as his illegitimate son. In 1531, Alessandro de' Medici became Florence's first hereditary monarch.
On 13 June 1518, Lorenzo married Madeleine de la Tour, daughter of the Count of Auvergne. The marriage produced a daughter, Catherine, who was born in 1519. Catherine de' Medici went on to become Queen of France, via a marriage to the future King Henry II of France, arranged by the second Medici Pope, Pope Clement VII.
Only 21 days after Catherine de' Medici's birth, Lorenzo II died, "worn out by disease and excess", on 4 May 1519 at age 26 in Careggi, Republic of Florence. Thus his daughter Catherine was raised primarily by the Medici Popes, Leo X and Clement VII, and their surrogates.
Relationships
- parent->child relationship with Medici, Alessandro de (born 17 February 1512 (greg.))
- parent->child relationship with Medici, Catherine de (born 13 April 1519 Jul.Cal. (23 Apr 1519 greg.))
- child->parent relationship with Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de (born 15 February 1472 Jul.Cal. (24 Feb 1472 greg.))
- other kin relationship with Medici, Lorenzo de (born 1 January 1449 Jul.Cal. (10 Jan 1449 greg.)). Notes: Grandkin
Events
- Relationship : Marriage 13 June 1518 Jul.Cal. (23 June 1518 greg.) (Madeleine de la Tour)
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from Memory, Family, and Self: Tuscan Family Books and Other European Egodocuments (14th-18th Century) by Giovanni Ciappelli (BRILL, 2014), page 135: "Lorenzo's ... son Piero, besides protocolling his own letters in the same register as his father's, continued the paternal habit of registering his loans there .... But above all he takes up the use of the first folio for family and private annotations. The fol. 1r of the third of these protocols in fact reports, even though not in Piero's hand but that of a secretary, the birth of his son Lorenzo who will become Duke of Urbino ... [MAP, 64], fol. 1r: 'Memory [ricordo] that on 12 September 1492, at 18 hours and a third [reckoned after sunset], Piero's first male son was born, and on the 13th he was baptized and named Lorenzo, Francesco and Romolo...'"
With reference to Florentine Time, Scholfield calculates sunset at about 6 PM LMT plus 18 hours 20 Minutes makes 12:20 PM LMT.
Categories
- Family : Childhood : Family noted (House of Medici, Italy)
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two)
- Family : Parenting : Kids - Noted (Catherine de' Medici, Queen of France)
- Family : Parenting : Kids - Noted (Alessandro de' Medici, first Duke of Florence)
- Personal : Death : Short Life less than 29 Yrs (Age 26)