Talk:House of Medici

-- Deletion of Idiomatic Phrase --

The following line appeard on this page:

"She donated much of her fortune to charity; £4,000 a month.[43] On 19 February 1743, Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, Dowager Electress Palatine, breathed her last."

I doubt it is of consequence to anyone, but I have (or will have, before anyone reads this) deleted the term "breathed her last" and replaced it with "died." Wikipedia has a policy stating that idioms are not to be used unless absolutely necessary, which it is not in this case.

Thanks! "Yes...It's Raining" 04:33, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

-- Lorenzo Medici--

More reference should definitely be made to Lorenzo Medici. Also, I think that talking about a plot without mentioning the plotters is just a tad confusing.....

'The flower of the medici family' Lorenzo Medici was a great-though not good looking- patron of the arts, a scholar, poet, philosopher and soldier. Also, The Easter sunday plot was meant to kill Lorenzo as well as his brother. It was otherwise known as the Pazzi plot because it was plotted by the Pazzi family, another rich Florentine family. All The Pazzi were later killed or exiled from Florence as Lorenzo avenged his brother. ---- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lizzzzz (talk • contribs) 07:34, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Wanted to add to family tree

I noted that Henrietta_Maria_of_France which exists on wikipedia is the daughter of Marie de' Medici (1573 – 1642), wife of Henry IV of France, so I wanted to add that into the family tree, so immediately exposing the fact the the Medici penetrated English Royal Family. So by modern Genetic Standards A Medici became the King of England!!

Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360 – 1429)

Lorenzo de' Medici (the Elder) (1395 – 1440)

Pierfrancesco de' Medici (the Elder) (1431 – 1476)

Giovanni the Popolano (1467 – 1498)

Lodovico de' Medici (Giovanni dalle Bande Nere) (1498 – 1526), the most famous soldier of all the Medici

Cosimo I de' Medici (1519 – 1574), Grand duke of Tuscany

Francesco I de' Medici (1541 – 1587), Grand duke of Tuscany

Marie de' Medici (1573 – 1642), wife of Henry IV of France

Henrietta_Maria_of_France, wife of Charles_I_of_England

Charles_II_of_England Great Great Great Great Great Great Great Grandson of Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360 – 1429)

├─Francesco I de' Medici (1541 – 1587), Grand duke of Tuscany
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│ ├─Eleonora de' Medici (1566 – 1611), wife of Vincenzo I Gonzaga, duke of Mantua
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│ ├─Romola de' Medici (1568 – 1568)
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│ ├─Anna de' Medici (1569 – 1584)
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│ ├─Isabella de' Medici (1571 – 1572)
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│ ├─Lucrezia de' Medici (1572 – 1574)
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│ ├─Marie de' Medici (1573 – 1642), wife of Henry IV of France
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│ │ └─Henrietta_Maria_of_France, wife of Charles_I_of_England
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│ │ └─Charles_II_of_England
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│ ├─Antonio de' Medici (1576 – 1621), adopted
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│ └─Filippo de' Medici (1577 – 1582)

Four popes..

This is not true. There were only two popes that were real Medici. Leo X and Clement VII. Leo XI was Medici only by his mother, Francesca Salviati, who was a daughter of Jacopo Salviati and Lucrezia de' Medici, a sister of Leo X. And Pius IV had no relation to this Medici whatsoever, he was from a modest family from Milan. --Maduixa (talk) 22:11, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Brittanica says 4. -- Jack1755 (talk) 16:01, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

If the mother is Medici then the son is Medici--Lizzz —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lizzzzz (talk • contribs) 20:51, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Britannica is wrong in this case. Pius IV was just a dude who happened to be named "Medici", totally unrelated to the family from Florence. -- MichiganCharms (talk) 08:48, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Eh, when he was crowned Pope, the Florentine de' Medici did claim a relationship. It could simply be they wished to take the honour of another Pope in the family, or it could be that until there was the Pope from that branch they did not want to associate with a humbler branch of the family. [tk] XANDERLIPTAK 13:40, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Medici Bankers

I know that the Medici family started off as bankers but did not see it here or did I miss it?--Frankonno (talk) 23:41, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

They had a small bank that became huge in later years. All of Europe was under the control of this bank. --Frankonno (talk) 23:51, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Designation and details

I removed the section entitled "Designation and details". It was tagged for being empty in July 2009. Since there has been no attempt to fill in that section, there didn't seem much point in keeping it in the article. howcheng {chat} 17:28, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Requested move of several article titles

Hello. I have undertaken a requested move proposal for the article titles of some of the members of the Medici family. I have focused on ten of them (most of which use dates as disambiguation), proposing more conventional naming disambigation that avoids dates. The RM and discussion is to proceed at Talk: Lorenzo de' Medici (1463–1503)#Requested move. Editors interested in the Medici should visit that discussion and voice their opinion on the proposed changes. Thank you. Walrasiad (talk) 11:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)