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Medici m. Giovanni degli Albizzi: Ippolito de' Medici (1511–1535) Cardinal) Pierfrancesco de' Medici (the Younger) (1487–1525) m. Maria Soderini: Laudomia de' Medici m. Francesco Salviati: Vincenzo de' Medici: Lorenzo de' Medici: Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553) Cardinal: Lorenzo Salviati (1492–1539) Lorenzo II de' Medici (1492–1519 ...
The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee; [4] Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century.
Coat of arms of the Fugger of the lily family, granted in 1473. Jakob Fugger was born the tenth of eleven children to Jakob Fugger the Elder (1398–1469) and his wife Barbara Bäsinger (1419–1497), daughter of Münzmeister Franz Bäsinger.
Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market. This banking family replaced the Medici family who influenced all of Europe during the Renaissance. The Fuggers took over many of the ...
The Gondi family of Florence, financial partners of the Medici family in the 15th century. The Fugger family of mercantile bankers and venture capitalists, the richest family in the 16th century. [62] The Welser family, alongside the Fugger one of the most important families of merchant bankers in 16th-century Europe.
Jacques Bylivelt; portrait by Hans von Aachen (1585) The design for the Grand Ducal Crown, as depicted in a papal bull. Jacques Bylivelt, also known as Giacomo Giovanni Bilivert or Jacopo Biliverti (17 November 1550 – 19 February 1603) was a Dutch goldsmith and jeweler who worked for the Medicis.
During the 14th century, the Amidei sold the castle to the House of Bardi, a noble family of bankers. The Bardis were famous for having financed Christopher Columbus and his expeditions to the Americas, as well as for having one of their daughters, Contessina de' Bardi, married to Cosimo de' Medici, the original founder of the Medici Bank.
Catherine de' Medici 1519–1589 Bourbons: Marie de' Medici 1575–1642: Henry IV 1553–1610 King of France and Navarre r. 1589–1610: Margaret 1553–1615: Francis II 1544–1560 King of France r. 1559–1560: Philip II The Prudent 1527–1598 King of England, Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, Spain, and Portugal: Elisabeth of Valois 1545–1568 ...