Philip de' Medici

Philip de' Medici (20 May 1577 – 29 March 1582) was the youngest child of Francesco I de' Medici and Joanna of Austria. He was the heir to the Tuscan throne.

Life

Philip received his name in honour of the King Philip II of Spain. The birth was celebrated with great joy by all the court, because thus was secured the succession of the Grand Duchy for another generation and eliminated all the hopes of Bianca Cappello (his father's mistress) to have her son Antonio become heir of Tuscany. Philip became Grand Prince of Tuscany.

When he was not quite eleven months old, his mother died in an accident falling down the stairs of the ducal apartments while heavily pregnant. His father then married Bianca Cappello. Philip was one of seven children, but only two of the children survived till adulthood, Eleonora de' Medici and Marie de' Medici (who became queen consort of France). He had another sister Anna who died aged fourteen. Philip died on 29 March 1582; he was four years old, and suffered from hydrocephalus: when his skull was opened, the equivalent of about a glass of fluid came out. Recent study of his remains have confirmed the diagnosis.^[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Philip de' Medici

8. Giovanni dalle Bande Nere^[2]

4. Cosimo I de' Medici^[2]

9. Maria Salviati^[2]

2. Francesco I de' Medici

10. Pedro Álvarez de Toledo^[4]

5. Eleonora of Toledo^[2]

11. Maria Osorio^[4]

1. Philip de' Medici

12. Philip I of Castile^[5]

6. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor^[3]

13. Joanna of Castile^[5]

3. Joanna of Austria

14. Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary^[6]

7. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary^[3]

15. Anna of Foix-Candale^[6]

References

^ [1] Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Gino Fornaciari, Angelica Vitiello, Sara Giusiani, Valentina Giuffra, Antonio Fornaciari, Natale Villari, The Medici Project: First Anthropological and Paleopathological Results. (retrieved 23 January 2011).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Medici Granducal Archive and the Medici Archive Project" (PDF). p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 January 2006.
^ ^a ^b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). "Habsburg, Johanna von Oesterreich (Tochter des Kaisers Ferdinand I.)" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 290 – via Wikisource.
^ ^a ^b Cesati, Franco (1999). Medici. Firenze: La Mandragora. p. 75. ISBN 88-85957-36-6.
^ ^a ^b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Joanna" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
^ ^a ^b Cazacu, Matei (2017). Reinert, Stephen W. (ed.). Dracula. Brill. p. 204.