Clarice Orsini
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Clarice Orsini was the daughter of Jacopo (Giacomo) Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo
Monterotondo
-History:According to some historians, Monterotondo is the heir of ancient Sabine town of Eretum, although the modern settlement appeared in the 10th-11th centuries in a different location...

 and Bracciano
Bracciano
Bracciano is a small town in the Italian region of Lazio, 30 km northwest of Rome. The town is famous for its volcanic lake and for a particularly well-preserved medieval castle Castello Orsini-Odescalchi...

, and his wife and cousin Maddalena Orsini. Born in the Papal States
Papal States
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, she is most known as the wife of Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets...

 (Lorenzo the Magnificent), de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic. She was the mother of Pope Leo X
Pope Leo X
Pope Leo X , born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. He is known for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses...

.

Lorenzo and Clarice were married by proxy
Proxy marriage
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 on 7 February 1469. The marriage was arranged by Lorenzo's mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Lucrezia Tornabuoni
Lucrezia Tornabuoni was a daughter of Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni and Nanna di Niccolo di Luigi Guicciardini. Her brother was Giovanni Tornabuoni.- Biography :...

, who wanted her eldest son to marry a woman from a noble family, in order to enhance the social status of the Medicis. Clarice's dowry was 6,000 florin
Italian coin florin
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s. She arrived in Florence on 4 June 1469.

Clarice was not popular in Florence, because her strict religious personality was in deep contrast with the humanist
Renaissance humanism
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 ideals of the age. Even Lorenzo preferred a Florentine woman, Lucrezia Donati, to whom he dedicated his poems, but he had children only from Clarice. Of the nine children born to them, three died in infancy.

During the Pazzi Conspiracy, which was aimed at murdering Lorenzo and his younger brother Giuliano
Giuliano di Piero de' Medici
Giuliano de' Medici was the second son of Piero de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni. As co-ruler of Florence, with his brother Lorenzo the Magnificent, he complemented his brother's image as the "patron of the arts" with his own image as the handsome, sporting, "golden boy."-Death:As the opening...

, Clarice and her children were sent to Pistoia
Pistoia
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. (The Pazzis succeeded in murdering Giuliano, but Lorenzo survived the attack, thus the conspirators' plan to replace the Medicis as de facto rulers of Florence failed.)

Clarice returned to Rome several times to visit her relatives; she also visited Volterra
Volterra
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, Colle Val d'Elsa, Passignano, and other places in the 1480s. On 30 July 1488 she died unexpectedly from tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
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 in Florence.

Issue

Clarice and Lorenzo had 10 children:
  • Lucrezia Maria Romola de' Medici
    Lucrezia de' Medici (1470–1553)
    Lucrezia Maria Romola de' Medici was an Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini and mother of Maria Salviati and Giovanni Salviati, who was a cardinal from 1517 until his death...

     (Florence
    Florence
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    , 4 August 1470 – 15 November 1553); married 10 September 1486 Jacopo Salviati
    Jacopo Salviati
    Jacopo Salviati was an Italian politician born in Florence on 15 September 1461.Son of Giovanni Salviati and Maddalena Gondi, he devoted himself in the economic affairs of the family, becoming very wealthy. He then engaged in political life...

     and had 10 children, including Cardinal Giovanni Salviati
    Giovanni Salviati
    Giovanni Salviati was an Italian Cardinal and diplomat. He was papal legate in France, and conducted negotiations with the Emperor Charles V....

    , Cardinal Bernardo Salviati
    Bernardo Salviati
    Bernardo Salviati was an Italian condottiero and Roman Catholic Cardinal.Salviati was born in Florence, the son of Jacopo Salviati and Lucrezia di Lorenzo de' Medici, the sister of Giovanni de' Medici. From an early age he was a knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem...

    , Maria Salviati
    Maria Salviati
    Maria Salviati was an Italian noblewoman, the daughter of Lucrezia di Lorenzo de' Medici and Jacopo Salviati. She married Giovanni dalle Bande Nere and was the mother of Cosimo I de Medici. Her husband died November 30, 1526, leaving her a widow at the age of 27...

     (mother of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
    Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
    Cosimo I de' Medici was Duke of Florence from 1537 to 1574, reigning as the first Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1569.-Biography:...

    ), and Francesca Salviati (mother of Pope Leo XI
    Pope Leo XI
    Pope Leo XI , born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year.-Biography:...

    )
  • Twins who died after birth (March 1471)
  • Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (Florence
    Florence
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    , 15 February 1472 – Garigliano River, 28 December 1503), ruler of Florence after his father's death, called "the Unfortunate"
  • Maria Maddalena Romola de' Medici (Florence
    Florence
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    , 25 July 1473 – Rome
    Rome
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    , 2 December 1528), married 25 February 1487 Franceschetto Cybo
    Franceschetto Cybo
    Franceschetto Cybo was an Italian nobleman, the illegitimate son of Pope Innocent VIII ....

     (illegitimate son of Pope Innocent VIII
    Pope Innocent VIII
    Pope Innocent VIII , born Giovanni Battista Cybo , was Pope from 1484 until his death.-Early years:Giovanni Battista Cybo was born at Genoa of Greek extraction...

    ) and had seven children
  • Contessina Beatrice de' Medici (23 September 1474 - September 1474), died young
  • Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici (Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    , 11 December 1475 – Rome
    Rome
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    , 1 December 1521), ascended to the Papacy as Pope Leo X
    Pope Leo X
    Pope Leo X , born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, was the Pope from 1513 to his death in 1521. He was the last non-priest to be elected Pope. He is known for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica and his challenging of Martin Luther's 95 Theses...

    on 9 March 1513
  • Luisa de' Medici (Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    , 25 January 1477 – July 1488), also called Luigia, was betrothed to Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano
    Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano
    Giovanni de' Medici, later known as il Popolano was an Italian nobleman of the Medici House of Florence. He was the son of Pierfrancesco di Lorenzo de' Medici, and therefore a member of a secondary branch of the family.-Biography:Giovanni was born in Florence...

     but died young
  • Contessina Antonia Romola de' Medici (Pistoia
    Pistoia
    Pistoia is a city and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno.-History:...

    , 16 January 1478 – Rome
    Rome
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    , 29 June 1515); married 1494 Piero Ridolfi (1467 - 1525) and had five children, including Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi
    Niccolò Ridolfi
    Niccolò Ridolfi was an Italian cardinal.Born in Florence, son of Piero Ridolfi and Contessina de' Medici , he was therefore nephew of Pope Leo X, who granted him a quick ecclesiastical career...

  • Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (Florence
    Florence
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    , 12 March 1479 – Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    , 17 March 1516), created Duke of Nemours in 1515 by King Francis I of France
    Francis I of France
    Francis I was King of France from 1515 until his death. During his reign, huge cultural changes took place in France and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch...


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