Piero "il Gottoso" de' Medici
Born:
in the year 1416
Deceased on:
2. or 3. December 1469
Father:
Mother:
Contessina de'Bardi (c. 1392-1470/73)
Spouse:
Lucrezia (1425/27-1482), daughter of Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni († 1436) and Nanna di Niccolò di Luigi Guicciardini († before 1436); marriage on 3. June 1444 – they were very happy
Children:
- his daughter Bianca Maria, born on 10. September 1445, deceased in the year 1488
- his daughter Nannina (Lucrezia), born on 14. February 1447, deceased on 14. May 1493, married to Bernardo Rucellai (1448-1514) since 1466; – an unhappy marriage
- his son Lorenzo "il Magnifico", born on 1. January 1449, deceased on 8. April 1492
- his son Giuliano, born on 25. October 1453, assassinated on 26. April 1478
- to 7.: three more children, two sons and one daughter, who died either shortly after birth or as young children
Illegitimate Child:
his daughter Maria, born around 1444/45; since 1473 married to Leonetto de' Rossi, head of the Medici Bank in Lyon; Maria had one son, Luigi (1474-1519), who was made Cardinal by his cousin, Pope Leo X. alias Giovanni de' Medici, in 1517
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Reading Suggestion:
- Maria Grazia Pernis and Laurie Schneider Adams: Lucrezia Tornabuoni de'Medici and the Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century. New York, Washington (D.C., Baltimore), Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna and Oxford 2006