Person:Cosimo de' Medici (4)

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Cosimo III de' Medici, granduca di Toscana
b.14 Aug 1642 Firenze, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
d.31 Oct 1723 Firenze, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
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  1. Cosimo III de' Medici, granduca di Toscana1642 - 1723
  2. Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro1660 - 1711
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m. 19 Apr 1661
  1. Ferdinando de' Medici, Gran Principe di Toscana1663 - 1713
  2. Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici1667 - 1743
  3. Gian Gastone I de' Medici, granduca di Toscana1671 - 1737
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Name[2] Cosimo III de' Medici, granduca di Toscana
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 14 Aug 1642 Firenze, Firenze, Toscana, ItalyHouse of Medici
Alt Marriage 18 Apr 1661 to Marguerite Louise d'Orléans
Marriage 19 Apr 1661 Paris, Paris, Franceto Marguerite Louise d'Orléans
Death[1][2] 31 Oct 1723 Firenze, Firenze, Toscana, Italy
Reference Number? Q47292?


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Cosimo III de' Medici (14 August 1642 – 31 October 1723) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Cosimo's 53-year-long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked by a series of laws that regulated prostitution and May celebrations. His reign also witnessed Tuscany's deterioration to previously unknown economic lows. He was succeeded by his elder surviving son, Gian Gastone, when he died, in 1723.

He married Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, a cousin of Louis XIV. The marriage was solemnized by proxy in the King's Chapel at the Louvre, on Sunday, 17 April 1661. It was a marriage fraught with tribulation. Marguerite Louise eventually abandoned Tuscany for the Convent of Montmartre. Together, they had three children: Ferdinando in 1663, Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine, in 1667, and Gian Gastone, the last Medicean ruler of Tuscany, in 1671.

In later life, he attempted to have Anna Maria Luisa recognised as the universal heiress of Tuscany, but Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, would not allow it because Tuscany was an imperial fief, and he felt he alone could alter the Tuscan laws of succession. All Cosimo's efforts to salvage the plan foundered, and in 1737, upon his younger son's death, Tuscany passed to the House of Lorraine.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Guarini, Elena Fasano. COSIMO III de' Medici, granduca di Toscana, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani. (Roma: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 1960-)
    Volume 30, 1984.
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