Medici Family Tree | Rulers of Florence
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- čas přidán 24. 03. 2023
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Chart by Ramiro Sottosanto
Narration/Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio Editing by Ali Shahwaiz
Intro Music:
"Lord of the Land" by Kevin MacLeod and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license 4.0. incompetech.com
Baldassarre Cossa, the man referred to as "Pope John XXIII" in the video is now considered an Antipope by the Catholic church. That's why, in the 20th century, you had another John XXIII (1958-1963), who is recognized as the Pope.
Thanks for adding this note. I was a little confused at first.
I am glad there is a channel like this I have always loved timelines and family trees
He is buried in a magnificent early Renaissance tomb within the baptistery of Florence which is right next to the Cathedral (Duomo) and considered a masterpiece of the early Renaissance - so obviously a lot of people thought highly of him despite being at the center of the Great Schism and demoted to being an antipope!
@UsefulCharts Could you do the family tree of the Qatar royal family please?
the prophet mohamd said : The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and They are Muslims by the path of Moses until the coming of Jesus ) and seventy in Hell . The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and They are Muslims by the path of jessus until the coming of mohamed). I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone as salafi as al albanian and ibn otheimin ibn timia ibn kaiim ) .........We must follow the truth and not follow the devil and not follow ourselves.
Fun fact: The 28th brazilian president was a descendant of the Medici family, his name was Emílio Garrastazu Médici and he was the son of an Italian immigrant and a Uruguayan woman of Basque origin.
Too bad it was a very bloody military dictatorship
@@luizgustavovasques4663 the guy never justified anything.
@@ramirosotto Not saying he did, I'm not fighting or disagreeing at all. I just don't want foreigner to think Médici was like a normal president. My bad if it sounded rude.
@@luizgustavovasques4663 based
@@luizgustavovasques4663 I Dont think u sounded rude at all Luiz. N I completely agree with both of your comments ☺️
As a kid playing Assassin's creed, I had this notion that their emblem was a slice of pepperoni pizza. :)
I always thought it was a slice of pizza too I’m not even kidding
Everytime you open the pizza box, do you always say "Nothing is true, everything is permitted"?
Assassin's Creed 😍
Pineapples 3:)
W pepperoni 🍕🍻
That was a really good presentation of the Medici family, thank you. I do wish that Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, the last survivor of the family, had made it onto the chart. She bequeathed all her family's fantastic treasures to the city of Florence on condition that the collection never be sold or divided. What a legacy for Florence.
Interesting fact : although in more modern history grand duchies are mostly associated with the german world (Baden, Hesse, Mecklenburg, Luxenburg, etc.), Tuscany was actually the first state ever to become a grand duchy. Ironically, it was also the only state in Italy to ever hold this rank.
@@HansWurst1569Luxembourg was only a Duchy for several centuries, until 1815 when the Congress of Vienna raised it to a Grand Duchy. The first Grand Duke of Luxembourg was also the first King of the Netherlands, William I.
@@HansWurst1569 what do you mean?
@@charlesTCMS oh! Fair enough! The more you know :D
I guess the archduchy of Austria is slightly diffrent than a grand duchy. Otherwise if you wanted to elavate yourself above a duke you declered a kingdom.
Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Am I a joke to you?
Definitely one of the most interesting noble families of Italy, hope we can see more about the Italian city states
On tours in Florence, local guides said that the circles on the emblem were pills, tying in with the Medici name. They're often shown as round balls, not just flat discs.
I was told the same thing by my teacher when I visited Florence with my class.
Did pills exist in medicine back then?
@@iwillchopyoudown3100 Pills date back to about 1500 BCE, so yes.
My theory about the Medici family coat of arms is that the red circles are simply well-aligned pepperoni pieces and that it actually represents a slice of pizza.
A commendable job of keeping the Medici and their connections straight. (Parenthetically, HRE Francis I,was the husband of Empress Maria Theresa, and the father of Marie Antoinette, among many others.)
You beat me to it ^^
Finally!! I was waiting for this video for long. As well, as idea, a family tree of Popes, since most of them are from Italian noble families
really good idea !
So great! I like it when I suddenly recognize a person from one chart that is also in another important chart. This illuminated for me how the Hapsburgs got all up in this family via Marie de Medici .These royal family charts are akin to a rubiks cube or some other kind of incredible 3d puzzle.
Great video! Should probably have mentioned that the John XXIII in the video was labelled an anti-pope after the Council of Constance, especially since the name was used again 500 years later by a different John XXIII who initiated the Second Vatican Council, one of the most defining events of modern Catholicism.
I love your series great job to your research and dedication!
I’ll admit, all I knew about the Medicis was through the assassins creed game, so I really loved this video 😅
I'm loving all these new trees
Syawish, you did one of the greatest perks of going both full-time animator and part-time narrator, WELL DONE!
Nice too see you revising more of your charts Matt. May I suggest doing more royal family trees like Bulgaria? That one is the only one left you have not covered on your Europe East Chart.
Fantastic video keep it up you're doing an amazing job also Medici TV series was fantastic that is how I learn about them.
That series is not so bad-especially season 1-but take it with a grain of salt: it has lots of artistic liberties (e.g. the character of Contessina de' Bardi).
I also recommend you the manga series "Cesare" (Cesare Borgia) by Fuyumi Soryo. It has just as many artistic liberties-don't get me wrong-but it's very entertaining and helps you get an idea of the mood of italian politics and life in those years.
And then of course there is also the novel "The Borgias" by Alexandre Dumas (the author of "The Three Musketeers").
There are a lot more books, movies and series about the Medici and the Borgias (some are good, many are crap), but I cannot quote them all.
@@ruyfernandez thanks for the suggests I appreciate it
They were friends of the house of auditore including it’s most famous member Ezio
Perfect timing
Hell yeah, pepperoni pizza, a righteous logo for any family.
I just purchased membership and enjoyed this and the portuguese royalty video.
Been waiting for this
Fun fact: Alessandro "De Moro" del Medici was actually one of the first African descended European scholars in early modern Westerm history, as well as the first (and last) biracial monarch of African descent to ever reign in an European monarchy.
A great many noble, aristocratic and princely bloodlines in Italy and Corsica nowadays can trace their limeage back to some of the daughters and great-descendants of Alessandro.
Which includes the Bonaparte family, another family of Italian descent whose founder was equally alleged to be of African descent.
Interesting.
It's not proved that his mother was of African descent. It's a theory to explain his dark complex. Other authors have said that his mother was a Roman peasant woman.
"University of Florence historian Giorgio Spini too, described this rumour as unfounded, instead tracing Alessandro's mother to a peasant from the Roman countryside who would later go on to marry a carrier from Lazio".
Also, he wasn't a monarch, he was a duke. The first Medici "monarch" was Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Notice that the seal of the house of medici kinda looks like a pepperoni pizza?!🍕😂
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I really liked this video! Seemed to go a little more in depth than most videos on here👍
I do wish that Caterina Sforza had gotten a quick mention though
15:51 In fact, nowadays it is questioned if Syphilis was really brought from the new world.
Great data, on this Great Family, 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙏🙏🙏👑💯
Great info, nice job
Ah Medici - legendary! Thank you!
Like Italian from tuscany, I appreciate this video.
I found really funny your pronunciations but still good job
Great history lesson too!
The House of Medici is connected to House of Bardi, House of Sforza, House of Pazzi, House of Orsini and House of Farnese, 5 notables Italians noble houses and with House of Valois and House of Bourbon, 2 French Dynasties that a part of House of Robertian and with House of Habsburg, the notable Dynasty of HRE and Empire of Austria.
Matt. Please is there any way you could do a video on debunking the Black Hebrew Israelites and them believing that the Israelites were Negroes. You have the academic resources of the artwork, and know scriptures and history. Anything you could put together would be helpful., Thank you for your time!
One of my favourite dynasties
Medici is so Legendary Family
9:46 "Archbishop of Pizza" instead of Pisa, according to the subtitles lol
"Not exactly the Cubs winning the World Series" - wasn't expecting to hear that phrase (I'm from Illinois and was a Cubs fan when I was younger).
The Medici family is beyond interesting. So much intrigue.
Great video. I enjoyed it
Reminds of two shows I watched on Netflix, The Borgias and Medici the Great.
Nice! Will this chart be made available?
Excellent presentation. Bruno got burned, too, like Savonarola. He was burned in Rome. Thank you. Grazie pure.
About the Borgia family, there are some patrilineal descendants in Ecuador and Chile
The coat of arms attributed to the Medici in the beginning looks like an exact replica of the coat of arms of the House of Courtenay, the English and French branch both use the same coat of arms
The number of artifacts that have been burned over time makes me wonder what else have we missed out on?
Hearing syawish of al muqaddimah in usefulcharts surprised me
Funny that their emblem looks like a slice of pizza and their adversarial relatives were the Pazzi, just flip the "A" and the "I" 🙃
Will this chart eventually also be for sale on your website?
I was just learning about these people
I could not hear so well how exactly Alexander de Medici was elevated to the rank of duke. Did Emperor Charles V grant him this title? Did the Holy Roman Empire regard the Italian city-states, including Florence with Tuscany, as if they were still at least theoretically part of the ancient Kingdom of Italy (regnum langobardorum)? Was there a feudal relationship between the Florentine Medici dukes and the emperor? And if so, how did this change with the granting of the title of Grand Duke of Tuscany by the Pope? Was the Grand Duchy of Tuscany now a vassal of the Papal States?
can't wait for the Borgia one, that show was epic
my favourite family!!! Catherine de Medici is the best.
the Medici's where quite the clan of kingmakers
When I first read these series of Medici I felt cultivated, (bas relief) the Spanish rule couldn't handle the Italians, Penelope the mother of Raphael kept wearing a white veil and it felt like she swung with different men to distract people. It wasn't until the priest who underneath, kept pressing his colleagues to do away with some of this pressure, which they did.
Hi, I would love to watch a video about the Duke of Alba’s family tree. Their roots can be traced back to the Jacobite monarchy and medieval Castille. Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart,who died in 2014, was the most titled aristocrat in the world. Plenty of Europe’s history to talk about 😊
It’s quite a mess with the iez during the first generations
This channel, although magnificent, has a bias against Spain and almost everything related to it.
I'm always surprised that, even though the subject has nothing to do with Spain, if someone is mentioned, they always find something horrible to tell about them, even if that person has managed to do outstanding achievements.
he was jewish
Okay the coat of arms is just a slice of pizza
Have you looked at either the Maffei or Federici families?
great video bro
If Medici's were playing ck3 they'd definetely farm renoun
very good video friend I would like to see a future video talking about the family tree of the house Hohenzollern from the Kings of Prussia to the German Emperors
Greetings from Brazil🇧🇷
There is already one on the channel, although it uses the old version of the European Royal Family Tree Chart.
@@ruyfernandez ah yes I understand but it would be cool an updated version like this video of the Medici Family because there was already a video about the Medici Family and Borgia. And in that old video is all the Kings of Prussia up to the German Emperors?
@@lucasdasilvahorst5280 yes, the old video has everything. There is also an even older video showing who are the claimants to the various german kingdoms today. However I agree it would be nice to get remakes of those old videos, and I think this is Matt's plan anyway.
@@ruyfernandez yes indeed I saw this older video of Who would be the German Emperor today in which of course the best claim is from Prince George Frederick of the Hohenzollern house as George Frederick I or Frederick IV German Emperor and King of Prussia
@@lucasdasilvahorst5280 so you see why it would deserve a little refresh...
Interesting
My Great Grandmother Deloris De Medichi was married to my great Grand farther James Goff in Florida.
*“a city road!” 🧩*
always good to see you here, syawish!
So after the last Grand Duke, were there any De Medicis left? or were the HRE relatives the closest?
When in 1737 male line of grand ducal Medici line died out, there were other more distant Medici family lines. Some probably may exist today. BUT
In 1737 the closet heir of Tuscany was king of Sicily and future king of Spain Charles III. Through his mother he was heir of duchy of Parma and also of Tuscany (he ruled Parma 1731-1734, until he became king of Sicily, which he inherited through his father (just like Spain in 1759). He was great-great grandson of Margaret Medici daughter of grand duke Cosimo II.
Eventually Parma returned to family of his younger brother who founder line of Bourbon-Parma. When Charles became king of Spain he left Sicily for his third son who founder sicilian line of Bourbons.
Emperor Francis and his heirs were not closest Medici relatives or heirs. But eldest daughter of Charles III, Maria Luisa married Peter Leopold Habsburg-Lorraine, future emperor Leopold II and second eldest son of emperor Francis. Peter Leopold inherited Tuscany after emperor Francis died. And first son of maria Luisa and Leopold was heir to imperial and royal domain while their second son Ferdinand inherited Tuscany and created tuscan line of family.
So Ferdinand III of Tuscany was not only descendant of Habsburg emperors and kings but also of dukes of Lorraine, medici grand dukes of Tuscany, kings of France and Spain, kings of Sicily, dukes of Parma, dukes of Modena, dukes of Savoy, dukes of Milan from families of Visconti and Sforza, medieval margraves of Tuscany or medieval kings of Italy. Ancestors from whole Italy and Europe.
The coat of arms was actually how they copyrighted the pizza
ur not matt baker
Do the Borgia family next!
Some of my ancestors on my Sicilian side that I have traced into the 1600s have the last name Medico or Medici I always wondered if we are distantly related to this family
Probably just descendants of a doctor.
@@CjqNslXUcM I also think so. However let me point out that there is a collateral branch that still exists today-the Medici of Ottajano-which was part of the Neapolitan and Duosicilian nobility.
I'm not related to the Medici, but my family is descendant from the Cavalcanti family from Firenze, it's actually very cool
Nice video
They may have been patrons of French Doctor and Mystic Nostradamus
Were the Medidis of Florence white or black Guelphs?
Great video and fascinating family history.
You don’t mention why the Grand Duchy was given to Francis Stephen of Lorraine.
My understanding is that it was a swap engineered by France, who was very interested in the Duchy of Lorraine on its doorstep (and didn’t want it to fall in Habsburg hands as Francis Stephen’s wife was the great Empress Maria Teresa).
As France would have de facto ruled or inherited Tuscany (through all the family connections mentioned in the video), they forced the swap to “upgrade” Francis Stephen from Duke of Lorraine to Great Duke of Tuscany and then installed a puppet duke in Lorraine in the form of Stanislaw Leczinski, the former king of Poland and father of the Queen of France Maria, wife of Louis XV, which means that the French crown would inherit Lorraine ultimately anyway.
Habsburgs ruled Tuscany until mid nineteenth century until ousted by the Risorgimento. Tuscan grand dukes sometimes went on to become Holy Roman emperors as was the case with Leopold II brother of emperor Joseph II -both associated with Mozart.
Heir of Tuscany was future king Charles III of Spain. Well through both parents he was heir to many lands. He was great-great grandson of Margaret Medici, daughter of Cosimo II.
Eldest daughter of Charles III, Maria Luisa married Peter Leopold Habsburg-Lorraine, future emperor Leopold II and second eldest son of emperor Francis. Their second eldest son Ferdinand created tuscan line of family.
@@kolomaznik333 I mentioned Mozart in my previous comment and Mozart's final opera "La Clemenza di Tito" was commissioned to celebrate the coronation in Prague of Leopold II and Maria Luisa. She was not a fan of German music(though La Clemenza was in Italian) as she preferred Italian composers. She is reported to have said after the performance that the opera was "porcaria tedesca" -which means "German crap."
@@kaloarepo288 only one Tuscan grand duke became HRE
@@andypham1636 Yes emperor Leopold II
just for you know Medici literally means “doctors” in a general sense in current Italian
I'm reading very good book abt Cartherine...descriptions of her hard life make my reading slow, very slow with often pauses...i have to digest part by part king, then his longlife mistress, then crowd, then "ladies" etc.
THANK YOU
THIS IS VERY USEFUL FOR ME
I CAN'T EASY FIND WHO IS WHO IN BOOK THAT I READ
Great video but dissapointed that there was no proper mention (or any mention) of the most famous and influencial member of the family: Catherine of Medici. She practically ruled France for tens of years!…
Kinda sad that on Sforza family tree Bona Sforza (Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania) is not show, when queens of France and HR Empress are shown
Is this chart for sale? Which one is it on?
The beer pong coat of arms is based
Will you talk about the Medici's of today, the junior lines that continued
I don't know what the historiographical traditions is for the pronounciation of a lot of these names, but you did get some wrong. "Gn" (as in signoria or magnifico) is the equivalent of Spanish ñ, plus a few other mistakes throughout, but again, I don't know if among English historians it's just common to not use the standard Italian pronounciation.
Another example is "Gian Galeazzo Sforza". You keep calling him Gian, but he's usually referred to as Gian Galeazzo, as "Gian" is the shortened version of "Giovanni", so alone it doesn't make much sense. Again, I don't know if this is conventionally how he's called in itarnational contexts.
Why Gian doesn't make much sense alone? Is that something unusuall to use only a shortened name of a monarch?
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Tl;dr (ended up writing a long comment, which i dont have time to review and correct now): its not about him being a monarch, it's just that for some first name + middle names combinations, the middle name isn't omitted. This is just something that exists in Italian, and having friends and families with this these names, I can testify to the fact that omitting the middle name it's not something you really do.
I'm italian, and my grandfather's name was Giovanni Vittorio, shortened Gian Vittorio/Gianvittorio. Never have I heard anyone refer to him as Gian, Gianni or Giovanni.
Outside of this admittedly anecdotal piece of evidence, when studying the Sforzas and the Italian families of the fifteenth century, I never heard anyone refer to people with "Gian" as a first name as just "Gian" or as Gianni or Giovanni (as i expected given my previous experience).
Another thing is that you might have noticed that the vast majority of Italian names (and words in general really) end with a vowel. "Gian" doesn't, so that's kind of a hint towards the fact that it's not used alone (almost as if "Gian" was a weak version of Giovanni or Gianni more then an abbreviation).
It's true that normally in Italian the middle name is omittable, like in English, but in some case the two names kinda become one, at least is my opinion and perception.
There are other examples of this other then "Gian", which by the way, as hinted at earlier, can be Gian Galeazzo, Gian Paolo (which is just straight up written as "Giampaolo", which makes it one word changing the n to an m as per Italian morphology), Gian Francesco etc.
Other examples include "Maria" as a first or middle name for women. In some cases Maria can be omitted when talking about the person in question (my mother's full name is Valentina Maria [last name], but Valentina is what everyone calls her). In other cases, however it is part of the name in such a way that it can't really be omitted. Such cases are the names "Maria Luisa", "Anna Maria", "Maria Costanza" and others. You'd never call people with these names just "Maria" or "Anna" for example, but you'd use both names, maybe shortening both (e. g. "Maria Luisa" -> "Marilù").
There are of course cases where all of this isn't the case, even for the combinations of names (which I honestly was just gonna call "names", because that really is mostly how I perceive them) I outlined, for example in extremely informal/ironic situations or other particular contexts. Still, this trend of first name + middle name combinations being used as a single name is a thing that happens in Italian.
And yes, to refer to a monarch I would use and have heard other people use the same "rules" as we would for other people. Names' abbreviations in general, while common in some cases (and in those cases, even for monarchs) are way less of a thing in Italian than they are in English.
@@lot8113 Very interesting. I don't know exactly how it works in English, as I am polish native speaker, but in my language middle names aren't so important. Majority of population have two names, but in reality everybody uses only the first one and very often you don't even know middle names of your friends. To join two names in one isn't a thing in polish too. There are some specific names, like Marianna (derived historically from Maria Anna), but are treated as single name, so for example woman can be named Marianna Eliza, where Marianna is one name, and Eliza is second name. Names abbreviations isn't common in my language as well. It's kinda funny for us to listen Americans calls theirs presidents "Joe", "Bill" and so on, as in polish if we call our politicians by abbreviations it would sound funny, some people do so to show disrespect. Even in history there aren't many cases of using abbreviations reffering to our monarchs or important figures. Anyway I think it's fun to get knowledge about how other languages woks.
At least he got the pronunciation of "Medici" right as most English speakers pronounce it "medeeci." Not sure about the pronunciation of "Girolamo" but I think he got that one wrong.I think the stress is on the first syllable not the third.
@@kaloarepo288 yeah true, I noticed it too
The house shield looks like a Pepporini Pizza 🍕 😂
The Medici show on Netflix is so underrated
leo X Medici selling indulgences is the reason i'm now a protestant and American...:D
Uffizi Gallery wsn't constructed. Either you mean that the building of the offices was constructed or that the offices were later turned to the Gallery.
So the coat of arms is a pepperoni pizza slice.
Yo that shield is clearly a slice of pepperoni pizza
Why don't you show a bigger view of the tree?
Because it's really hard to fit all that info into one screen, and also because they sell the full charts. I've actually tried before to put an entire family tree onto one big page, and it is deceptively difficult- I don't blame them for charging money for the full chart- so much work goes into it.
Why am I hearing Assassin's Creed 2 music playing in the background?
yeah but where is ezio?
Just an FYI for Matt... I'd totally buy this as a poster. Just saying.
Another tidbit, through Margherita de Medici, the Medici’s are ancestors of every Spanish monarch who came after King Ferdinand VI.
Died at the Cubs joke 🤣
I shouldn't be such a homer, but wooooo! Mennonite Brethren got a mention. I'm descended from Quirin van der Meulen, one of Menno Simon's buddies. A bunch of Quirings and Goertzens (my family) went east to Poland and Ukraine. We came over to the US around 1870. My GG Gpa had 22 children between two wives, so my cousins are thick around Minnesota and Oregon. My DNA tests are quite a nest on 23andMe. Anyway, Mennonite Brethren on the west coast have pretty much become generic evangelicals, much to my chagrin. The peace doctrine is still officially a thing, but it gets ignored with a pat on the head. We should have kept our peace witness and gotten rid of things like male dominance and being moral scolds.
I love how I only know them through assassins creed lol
Two cases in which a simple "No" turned dramatically the wheel of history, but against the wish of who uttered it.
#1 When Giulio de'Medici aka Pope Clemente VII answered to the request of King Henry VIII.
#2 When King George III answered to the request of American Colonialists.
The head of the family was Giovanni de Medici, founder of a BANK?
Enough said!
All glory to God the most high only
That's a slice of pepperoni 🍕