Grand Duchy of Tuscany facts for kids
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Italian: Granducato di Toscana, Latin: Magnus Ducatus Etruriae) was a monarchy in Tuscany, an area in the north-west of the Italian Peninsula. It existed, with interruptions, from 1569 to 1859. It replaced the Duchy of Florence. It was ruled by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The capital of the grand duchy was Florence. Until the House of Lorraine took over from the Medici, Tuscany was a state of the Holy Roman Empire until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Under the Medici the heir to the grand ducal throne was called the "Grand Prince of Tuscany" whereas the Lorrainers used various titles for the heir apparent.
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The Grand Duke Ferdinando I.
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Maria Maddalena, Cosimo II and Ferdinando II, painting after Justus Sustermans
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The Grand Duke Cosimo III in old age
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The Grand Duke Gian Gastone's coronation portrait; he was the last Medicean monarch of Tuscany
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A doppelporträt of Francis Stephen and his wife Maria Theresa, by Peter Kobler von Ehrensorg
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Silver coin: 10 paoli of Grand Duchy of Tuscana 1747, under Francis of House Lorraine
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Grand Duke Leopold I with his children and wife, 1776
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The Kingdom of Etruria, Tuscany's successor state during the Napoleonic Wars
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Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (r. 1824–1859) in the uniform of an Austrian Field Marshal, 1828, after Pietro Benvenuti
See also
In Spanish: Gran Ducado de Toscana para niños
