Claudia de' Medici

Claudia de' Medici.

Claudia de' Medici was born in Florence.

After her husband's premature death, she was married, on April 19, 1626, to the archduke Leopold V of Austria. She died at Innsbruck in 1648.

She was named after her distant ancestor, Queen Claude of France, consort to King Francis I.

[edit] Ancestors

**Claudia de' Medici's ancestors in three generations**
Claudia de' Medici	Father: Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany	Paternal Grandfather: Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany	Paternal Great-grandfather: Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Maria Salviati
		Paternal Grandmother: Eleonora di Toledo	Paternal Great-grandfather: Pedro Álvarez de Toledo
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Maria Osorio Pimentel, Marquessas of Villafranca del Bierzo
	Mother: Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany	Maternal Grandfather: Charles III, Duke of Lorraine	Maternal Great-grandfather: Francis I, Duke of Lorraine
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Christina of Denmark
		Maternal Grandmother: Claude of Valois	Maternal Great-grandfather: Henry II of France
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Catherine de' Medici

She had five children by Leopold V:

Archduchess Maria Eleonora of Austria (1627–1629)
Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (1628–1662), Count of Tyrol, who married Anna de' Medici (1616–1676)
Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria (1629–1685), who married Carlo III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1629–1665)
Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630–1665), Count of Tyrol and Regent of Further Austria, who married Maria Hedwig Auguste, Countess Palatine of Sulzbach (1650–1681)
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria (1632–1649), who married Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)

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