Anna de' Medici

Tuscan princess
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroTuscan princess
A.K.A.Anna Medici
A.K.A.Anna Medici
wasPrincess Noble
Work fieldRoyals
Gender
Female
Birth31 December 1569, Florence
Death19 February 1584Florence (aged 14 years)
Family
Mother:Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
Father:Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
The details

Biography

Anna de' Medici (31 December 1569 – 19 February 1584) was the third child of Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Joanna of Austria. She was a member of the famous House of Medici.

Life

Anna was the third child of Grand Duke Francesco and Archduchess Joanna. She had two surviving sisters, Eleanor, Duchess of Mantua, and Marie, Queen of France.

Francesco betrothed Anna in 1578 to Charles, Margrave of Burgau, son of Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria (a brother of her mother). A portrait of Anna was sent to the Archduke. Anna's father even asked permission in 1579 for the marriage from Philip II of Spain, who was one of the most powerful rulers of the time. But the negotiations were called off and the marriage did not go ahead. It is possible that after the failed negotiations, Francesco set up further ones for a marriage for Anna to Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. But these negotiations were also called off and Charles Emmanuel was soon married to Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain, daughter of King Philip.

Anna soon became sickly and was dying. On 19 February 1584, her sister Eleanor sent a letter to their father on Anna's behalf requesting him to come and visit her before she died, Anna died that same day aged only fourteen.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anna de' Medici
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Giovanni il Popolano
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Caterina Sforza
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Cosimo I de' Medici
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jacopo Salviati
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Maria Salviati
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lucrezia de' Medici
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Francesco I de' Medici
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pedro Álvarez de Toledo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Isabel de Zúñiga y Pimentel
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Eleanor of Toledo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Luís de Pimentel y Pacheco
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Maria Osorio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Juana de Osorio y Bazán
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anna de' Médici
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Philip I of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mary of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ferdinand II of Aragon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joanna of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Isabella I of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Joanna of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Casimir IV Jagiellon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Elisabeth of Austria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anne of Bohemia and Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gaston de Foix
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Anne of Foix-Candale
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Infanta Catherine of Navarre
 
 
 
 
 
 


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