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{{short description|Illegitimate son of Alessandro de' Medici}}
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| name = Giulio de' Medici
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| image = Giulio di alessandro de' medici, xvii century print.jpg
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| spouse = Angelica Malaspina
| issue = Caterina de' Medici<br>[[Cosimo di Giulio de' Medici|Cosimo de' Medici]] <small>(illegitimate)</small><br>Giuliano de' Medici <small>(illegitimate)</small>
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| predecessor = 
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| noble family = [[Medici]]
| father = [[Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence]]
| mother = [[Taddea Malaspina]]
| birth_date = {{circa|1532}}
| birth_place = [[Prato]], [[Duchy of Florence]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1598|03|25|1532|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Pisa]], [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany]]
| burial_place = [[San Frediano, Pisa]]
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'''Giulio di Alessandro de' Medici''' ({{circa}} 1532–25 March 1598) was the illegitimate son of [[Alessandro de' Medici]], the [[Duke of Florence]], and probably of [[Taddea Malaspina]].

Aged about four at the time of his father's assassination, he was passed over as a choice for the succession in favour of [[Cosimo I de' Medici]], the first of the "junior" branch of the [[Medici]] to rule [[Florence]]. He was placed under the guardianship of Cosimo I and raised at his court. In 1562 he was appointed the first knight of the [[Order of Saint Stephen]], an order founded to combat pirates and Turks in the Mediterranean Sea. As Admiral of the Order, from 1563 to 1566, he was sent to help the Knights Hospitallers during the [[Siege of Malta (1565)|Siege of Malta in 1565]]. He also acted as an ambassador, to Mantua in 1565; to Rome in 1571 and again in 1573.

[[Pompeo Litta Biumi|Pompeo Litta]] mistakenly stated that Giulio was married to Lucrezia [[Caetani|Gaetani]], who was in fact married to his son Cosimo and bore him [[Angelica de' Medici]] (1608-1636).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bia.medici.org/DocSources/src/peoplebase/SharePerson.do?personId=9080|title=Bia - Document Report|last=Allori|first=Lorenzo|website=bia.medici.org|access-date=2017-05-19}}</ref> Actually Giulio married Angelica Malaspina and had a daughter, Caterina, who became a [[Benedictine]] nun at the [[Monastero delle Murate]] in Florence and died in 1634. He also had two illegitimate sons, [[Cosimo di Giulio de' Medici|Cosimo]] (1550-1630), who followed him as a knight of the Order of Saint Stephen, and Giuliano (d.1598).

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/famous/medici.html Alessandro de Medici] [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] online page discussing his father's ancestry, and his heirs; be careful, though, as it contains at least one known error

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[[Category:Grand Duchy of Tuscany people]]

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