Clarice de' Medici

Clarissa de' Medici
Clarissa de' Medici
	Portrait of Clarice de' Medici
	Full name Clarissa de' Medici
Born	1493; Florence, Republic of Florence
Died	1528; 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 de' Medici (1493–1528)[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

Ancestry

Ancestors of Clarice de' Medici

16. Cosimo de' Medici

8. Piero the Gouty

17. Contessina de' Bardi

4. Lorenzo de' Medici

18. Francesco Tornabuoni

9. Lucrezia Tornabuoni

19. Nanna Guicciardini

2. Piero de' Medici

20. Orso Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo

10. Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo and Bracciano

21. Lucrezia Conti

5. Clarice Orsini

22. (=12.)Carlo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano

11. Maddalena Orsini

23. (=13.)Paola Orsini

1. Clarice de' Medici

24. Giovanni Orsini, Lord of Bracciano

12. (=22.)Carlo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano

25. Bartolomea Spinelli

6. Roberto Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo

26. Giacomo Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo

13. (=23.)Paola Orsini

27. Isabella Marzano

3. Alfonsina Orsini

28. Filippo Sanseverino, Count of Matera

14. Amerigo Sanseverino, Count of Capaccio

29. Elisabetta d’Aquino

7. Caterina Sanseverino

30. Antonio Sanseverino, Duke of San Marco

15. Margherita Sanseverino

31. Giovanna Orsini
granddaughter of Raimondo Orsini

References

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.

Sources

Tomas, Natalie R. (2003). The Medici Women: Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0754607771.

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[FOOTNOTETomas20037-1] Tomas 2003, p. 7.

[2] 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.