Clarice de' Medici

Clarice di Piero de' Medici (14 September 1489 – 3 May 1528) was the daughter of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini.

Born in Florence, she was the granddaughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, niece of Pope Leo X and sister to Lorenzo II de' Medici. After her brother's premature death in 1519, she educated his daughter Catherine, the future Queen of France.

In 1508 she married Filippo Strozzi the Younger and moved to Rome. Filippo and Clarice had ten children: Piero Strozzi (1 March 1511 - 21 June 1558), condottiero and Marshal of France Maria Strozzi (13 August 1514, died between 1551 and 1575), married Lorenzo Ridolfi in 1529. Leone Strozzi (15 October 1515 - 28 June 1554), condottiero and Knight of Malta Luisa Strozzi (died 5 December 1534), married Senator Luigi Capponi in 1533. Roberto Strozzi (12 October 1520 - 1566), married Maddalena di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (Florence, c. 1523 - Rome, 14 April 1583), daughter of Pierfrancesco II de' Medici Maddalena Strozzi (1521-1596), married Count Flaminio dell'Anguillara in 1538. Giulio Strozzi (1522 - 14 December 1537) Lorenzo Strozzi (3 December 1523 - 14 December 1571), abbot and Cardinal Vincenzo Strozzi (died Rome, 1537). He was mad Alessandro Strozzi (died 31 October 1541)

She died in 1528 from either miscarriage or childbirth complications of a stillborn child

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