Lord Williams
Aristocracy
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Are there any people who are of the House of Medici? If so, are there any pictures of them?
but i would not say it has the same name...Originally posted by Semiramide_Appiani@Jun 25th, 2004 - 3:57 pm
That may not be true, because de' Medici family did have illegitimate children so de' Medici family line could still exist.
well, in fact they didn't govern it. they were just powerful people in florence and owned the most important buildings in florence.Originally posted by Meg@Jun 29th, 2004 - 5:57 am
"The de' Medici family, which governed the City of Florence from the 15th century to 1737, will have no more secrets since a scientific analysis that will reconstruct the life style, the illnesses and real family tree of the 50 members of this family of bankers, whose most famous exponent is Lorenzo the Magnificent.
In June 2004, the first bodies buried in the monumental tombs of the Medicean Chapel of the Church of San Lorenzo, designed and realized by Michelangelo Buonarroti, will be disinterred. This operation should bring on the examination of the remains of the 50 bodies in a couple of years and it is in the ambit of the "Medici" project, coordinated by the Universities of Florence and Pisa and the Florentine Museum Pole Special Superintendence.
The most well-known Medicis, such as Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) and Cosimo the Elder (1389-1464), founder of the Medici political dynasty, will not be exhumed as they rest beneath beautiful Michelangelo tombstones too fragile to move".
I take this from a history magazine. I suppose the project has started yet. The magazine included an article signed by Lorenzo de Medici, it was said that he was the 13 descendant of Lorenzo the Magnificent, but I dont know more about him.
In such matters, illegitimate lines do not matter.Originally posted by Semiramide_Appiani@Jun 25th, 2004 - 4:57 pm
That may not be true, because de' Medici family did have illegitimate children so de' Medici family line could still exist.
That being the case .... would anybody complain if I changed my last name to "Medici" ?grecka Posted: Jun 25th, 2004 - 6:54 pm
Actually, I read that, in the 18th century, the last direct medici descendant died, as she was a woman who had bore no children.
would anybody complain if I changed my last name to "Medici" ?
how does one get adopted then?
that seems to work better with the nubile young lady and the cantankerous old grump, as opposed to the other way around.Originally posted by kirstengrafin@Jul 5th, 2004 - 6:12 pm
find someone royal/titled/rich who is still ALIVE.......then endear yourself to him/her and proclaim that he/she is the parent you never had and thenhow does one get adopted then?
It isn’t quite true that Hapsburg was the new dynasty in Tuscany. Habsburg and Medici both became extinct at about the same time. Tuscany was given to Francis of Lorraine, in exchange for Lorraine, which was given to Stanislaw Leszczynski of Poland for life, in compensation for Poland, which was returned to his rival, Friedrich August of Saxony. Francis of Lorraine was married to the Habsburg heiress and their descendants inherited Austria, Hungary, and Tuscany. So, it was the House of Lorraine that reigned in Tuscany after the extinction of Medici and Habsburg.Originally posted by kcc@Jun 26th, 2004 - 12:03 pm
this lady did a wonderful thing for florence before she died. she left all the medici art to florence which prevented the new dynasty(habsburg) from claiming it as private property.