Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany facts for kids

Full name
	Ferdinando de' Medici

Quick facts for kids
Ferdinando I
Quick facts for kidsFerdinando I
Grand Duke of Tuscany
Predecessor	Francesco I
Successor	Cosimo II
Born	30 July 1549; Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Died	3 February 1609 (aged 59); Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Spouse	Christina of Lorraine
Issue	Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Princess Maria Maddalena; Caterina, Duchess of Mantua; Carlo, Bishop of Ostia; Claudia, Archduchess of Austria
Full name
	Ferdinando de' Medici
House	House of Medici
Father	Grand Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany
Mother	Eleonora di Toledo

Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (30 July 1549 – 3 February 1609) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609. He succeeded his older brother Francesco I.

Ferdinando was the fifth son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo.

He was a Cardinal before he became Grand Duke, until he married Christine of Lorraine in 1589. He was succeeded by his eldest son, who reigned as Cosimo II. His wife and daughter-in-law Maria Maddalena of Austria acted as regents for Cosimo II.

Issue

Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590–1621); married Maria Maddalena of Austria and had issue;
Eleonora de' Medici (1591–1617) died unmarried
Catherine de' Medici (1593–1629); married Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, later Governor of Siena;
Francesco de' Medici (1594–1614) died unmarried;
Carlo de' Medici (1595–1666) died unmarried;
Filippino de' Medici (1598–1602) died unmarried;
Lorenzo de' Medici (1599–1648) died unmarried;
Maria Maddalena de' Medici (1600–1633) died unmarried;
Claudia de' Medici (1604–1648); married (1) Federico della Rovere and had issue; (2) Leopold V, Archduke of Austria and had issue.

Images for kids

Ferdinando I de' Medici as Cardinal (1562 to 1589).
Evangelium Sanctum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Arabic, 1590, with Arabic types of Robert Granjon, Typographia Medicea, Rome.
Pietro Tacca's Monumento dei Quattro Mori (Monument of the Four Moors) in Leghorn, showing Ferdinando holding baton of a field marshal standing victorious above chained Moorish captives. (1623)