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The title of Grand Duke, was in fact the second title of recognition within the Tuscan politics given by a Pope to the Medici family, the first being that of Duke of the Florentine Republic, created by Pope Clement VII in 1532. [3] [4] The official residence of the Grand Dukes was the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, bought by the Medici in 1549. [5]
Every grand duke after Leopold resided in Florence. Grand Duke Leopold II agreed to ratify a liberal constitution in 1848. He was briefly deposed by a provisional government in 1849, but restored to power the same year by Austrian troops. The government was finally dissolved upon its annexation to the United Provinces of Central Italy in 1859. [7]
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 10. Jacopo Salviati: 5. Maria Salviati: 11. Lucrezia de' Medici: 1. Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 12. Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Enríquez, 2nd Duke of Alba: 6. Pedro de Toledo y Zúñiga: 13. Isabel de Zúñiga y Pimentel: 3. Eleanor of Toledo: 14. Luis Pimentel y Pacheco, 1st ...
Ferdinand III [nb 1] (6 May 1769 – 18 June 1824) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1790 to 1801 and, after a period of disenfranchisement, again from 1814 to 1824. He was also the Prince-elector and Grand Duke of Salzburg (1803–1805) and Duke and Elector (to 1806, Grand Duke from 1806) of Würzburg (1805–1814).
When Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1670–1723) received the "right to royal rank" from Vienna, he added arches and a globe to the top of the grand ducal crown, as these were the typical elements of a royal crown. The new status of the Grand Duchy included among other things a change of style from Altezza Serenissima to Altezza Reale.
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 4. Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 9. Eleonora di Toledo: 2. Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 10. Charles III, Duke of Lorraine: 5. Christina of Lorraine: 11. Claude of Valois: 1. Francesco de' Medici: 12. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor: 6. Charles II of Austria: 13. Anna ...
Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 17. Maria Salviati: 4. Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 18. Pedro Álvarez de Toledo: 9. Eleonora di Toledo: 19. Maria Osorio Pimentel, Marchioness of Villafranca del Bierzo: 2. Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany: 20. Francis I, Duke of Lorraine: 10. Charles III, Duke of ...
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 become heir of Tuscany.