Philip de' Medici
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Philip de' Medici (May 20, 1577 – March 29, 1582) was the youngest child of Francesco I de' Medici and Joanna of Austria. He was the heir to the Tuscan throne.
Life[]
Philip received his name in honour of the King Philip II of Spain. The birth was celebrated with great joy by all the court, because thus was secured the succession of the Grand Duchy for another generation and eliminated all the hopes of Bianca Cappello (his father's mistress) to have her "son" Antonio as heir of Tuscany. Philip became Grand Prince of Tuscany.
When he was not quite eleven months old, his mother died in an accident falling down the stairs of the ducal apartments while heavily pregnant. His father then married Bianca Cappello. Philip was one of seven children, but only two of the children survived till adulthood, Eleonora de' Medici and Marie de' Medici (who became queen consort of France). He had another sister Anna who died aged fourteen. Philip died on 29 March 1582; he was four years old, and suffered from hydrocephalus: when his skull was opened, the equivalent of about a glass of water came out. Recent study of his remains have confirmed the diagnosis.[1]
Ancestry[]
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References[]
- ^ [1] Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Gino Fornaciari, Angelica Vitiello, Sara Giusiani, Valentina Giuffra, Antonio Fornaciari, Natale Villari, The Medici Project: First Anthropological and Paleopathological Results. (retrieved 23 January 2011).
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "The Medici Granducal Archive and the Medici Archive Project" (PDF). p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2006.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Wurzbach, Constantin, von, ed. (1860). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). 6. p. 290 – via Wikisource.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cesati, Franco (1999). Medici. Firenze: La Mandragora. p. 75. ISBN 88-85957-36-6.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. .
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cazacu, Matei (2017). Reinert, Stephen W. (ed.). Dracula. Brill. p. 204.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Ady, Cecilia Mary (1907). A History of Milan Under the Sforza. Methuen & Company. pp. 109, 334. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Tomas, Natalie R. (5 July 2017). The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence. Taylor & Francis. p. 248. ISBN 9781351885829. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Piferrer, Francisco; Rujula y Busel, Antonio (1859). Nobiliario de los reinos y señorios de España [Nobility of the kingdoms and lordships of Spain] (in Spanish). 3 (2nd ed.). Madrid: La Redaccion. p. 87. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "El Señorio de Villafranca de el Bierzo". Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia. 179. Real Academia de la Historia. 1982. p. 67.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Philip I, King of Castile at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Jump up to: a b Priebatsch, Felix (1908), "Wladislaw II.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 54, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 688–696
- ^ Jump up to: a b Revue de l'Agenais (in French). 4. Société des sciences, lettres et arts d'Agen. 1877. p. 497.
- 1577 births
- 1582 deaths
- House of Medici
- Nobility from Florence
- 16th-century Italian nobility
- Grand Princes of Tuscany
- Burials at San Lorenzo, Florence
- Heirs apparent who never acceded
- People with hydrocephalus
- Italian nobility stubs