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FRANCESCO, 210

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 41 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FRANCESCO, 210 C) FERDINAND I., Pietro, Isabella, C) Virginia,
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Giovanni delle Bande Nere,
1498-1526
=Maria Salviati,
t 1543.
Cos1MO I., 1519-1574,
=1. Eleonora of Toledo,
f 1562.
2. Camilla Martelli.
Cosimo II., n Caterina= Claudia
1590-1621 -I. 4' - . ~r Ferdinand =1. Federigo
=Maria ' o o c g $ Gonzaga, della Rovere,
Maddalena a a o duke of hereditary
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f 1631. p Urbino;
Lorenzo, 1305-1440 =Ginevra Cavalcanti,
Pier Francesco, t 1467 -= Laudomia Acciaitioli.
ft. 2.
Leopold
  of Austrian
Laudomia. Maddalena Giuliano Piero =Roberto bishop of Strozzi. Strozzi. Beziers.
Lorenzo, t 1503 Semiramide
Appiani
 .
Pier Francesco, f 1525
=Maria Soderini.
Tyrol. FERDINAND II., Francesco, Mattia, Leopoldo, Giovanni Anna Margherita
1610-1670 t 1634. f 1667. cardinal, Carlo, Ferdinand =Odoardo
Vittoria
 
=
Vittoria
  della t 1675. cardinal, of Austrian Farnese . della Rovere.
Rovere, f 1694. f 1063. Tyrol. duke of'
Parma.
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Cosnlo III., 1642-1723 Francesco Maria, 1660-1711 (cardinal until 1709)
=Marguerite Louise of Orleans, t 1721. Eleonora Gonzaga.
Ferdinand, 1663-1713 GIOVAN GASTONE, 1671-1737 Anna Maria Luisa, 1667-1743
=Violante of Bavaria, t 1731. =Anna Maria of Saxe-Lauenburg, f 174r. = John William of the Palatinate.
Cosimo had a passing idea of reconstituting the Florentine
republic, but, this
design
  being discountenanced by the Euro-
pean powers, he determined to transfer the succession, after
the death of Giovan Gastone, to his sister Anna Maria Louisa,
who in fact survived him. For this purpose he proposed to
annul the patent of Charles V., but the powers objected to this
arrangement also, and by the treaty of '1718 the quadruple
alliance of Germany, France, England and Holland decided that
Parma and Tuscany should descend to the Spanish Infante Don
Carlos. The grand-duke made energetic but fruitless protests.
Cosimo III. had passed his eightieth year at the time of his
decease in October 1723, and was succeeded by his son Giovan
Gastone, then aged fifty-three. The new sovereign
was in bad health, worn out by dissipation, and had
neither ambition nor aptitude for
rule
 . His throne
was already at the disposal of foreign powers, and his only
individuals; while the grand-duke, compelled to pass the greater part of his time in bed, vainly sought diversion in the company of buffoons, and was only tormented by perceiving that all the world disposed of his throne without even asking his advice. And when, after prolonged opposition, he had resigned himself to accept Don Carlos as his successor, the latter led a Spanish army to the conquest of Naples, an event afterwards leadrAg to the peace of 1735, by which the Tuscan succession was transferred to Francesco II., duke of Lorraine, and husband of Maria Theresa. Giovan Gastone was finally obliged to submit even to this. Spain withdrew her garrisons from Tuscany, and Austrian soldiers took their place and swore fealty to the grand-duke on the 5th of February 1737. He expired on the 9th of July of the same year. Such was the end of the younger branch of the Medici, which had found Tuscany a prosperous country, where art, letters, commerce, industry and agriculture flourished,
Giovan Oilstone.
and left her poor and decayed in all ways, drained by taxation, and oppressed by laws contrary to every principle of sound
economy
 , downtrodden by the clergy, and burdened by a weak and vicious aristocracy.


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