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House of Medici

Royal family

  • Also called Medici family, Medici

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Coat of Arms of the Grand duchy of Tuscany
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Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Members · 33

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

10 children in the house

  1. Princess Maria de' Medici of Tuscany 1540 CE – 1557 CE
  2. Francesco I de' Medici 1541 CE – 1587 CE
  3. Isabella de' Medici 1542 CE – 1576 CE
  4. Giovanni de' Medici 1543 CE – 1562 CE
  5. Lucrezia de' Medici 1545 CE – 1561 CE
  6. Garzia de' Medici 1547 CE – 1562 CE
  7. Ferdinando I de' Medici 1549 CE – 1609 CE 5 children in the house
  8. Pietro de' Medici 1554 CE – 1604 CE
  9. Don Giovanni de' Medici 1567 CE – 1621 CE
  10. Virginia de' Medici 1568 CE – 1615 CE
One family in House of Medici: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

Cardinal

  • 9 holders
  • 15 overlapping pairs
  • 2 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1513 CE – 1523 CE Clement VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534) Has references
  2. from 10 January 1529 CE Ippolito de' Medici Catholic cardinal Has references
  3. from 8 April 1549 CE Pius IV pope of the Catholic Church from 1559 to 1565 Has references
  4. from 31 January 1560 CE Giovanni de' Medici Italian cardinal (1543-1562) Has references
  5. from 2 December 1615 CE Carlo de' Medici Catholic cardinal Has references
  6. from 14 November 1644 CE Gian Carlo de' Medici Catholic cardinal; (1611-1663) Has references
  7. from 12 December 1667 CE Leopoldo de' Medici Italian cardinal, scholar, patron of the arts and Governor of Siena (1617-1675) Has references

No dates recorded 2

Every recorded holder

Pope

  • 4 holders
  • 3 gaps
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 217th 19 March 1513 CE – 1 December 1521 CE Leo X pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521) Has references
  2. Gap about 2 years before the next in this house

    219th 29 November 1523 CE – 25 September 1534 CE Clement VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534) Has references
  3. Gap about 26 years before the next in this house

    224th 4 January 1560 CE – 9 December 1565 CE Pius IV pope of the Catholic Church from 1559 to 1565 Has references
  4. Gap about 40 years before the next in this house

    232nd 1 April 1605 CE – 27 April 1605 CE Leo XI pope of the Catholic Church in April 1605 (1535-1605)
Every recorded holder

Abbot

  • 3 holders
  • 1 gap
  • 1 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1487 CE – 1495 CE Leo X pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
  2. Gap about 21 years before the next in this house

    1516 CE – 1521 CE Clement VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)

No dates recorded 1

Every recorded holder

Cardinal-deacon

  • 3 holders
  • 1 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 26 March 1489 CE – 9 March 1513 CE Leo X pope from 1513 to 1521 (1475-1521)
  2. 29 September 1513 CE – 26 June 1517 CE Clement VII pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534 (1478–1534)

No dates recorded 1

Every recorded holder

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How House of Medici connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Attribute 1

What this means

A domain, symbol or epithet as sources record it.

Does not imply an exclusive domain · the same association in every account

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

0 statements on this record

This record makes no statements of its own yet, so there is nothing here to weigh.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
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Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

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