Longest reigning Cosimo III de' Medici 23 May 1670 – 31 October 1723
Details
First monarch
Cosimo I de' Medici
Last monarch
Leopold II (de jure) Ferdinand IV (de facto/titular)
Formation
27 August 1569
Abolition
16 August 1859
Residence
Palazzo Pitti
The title of Grand Duke of Tuscany was created on August 27, 1569 by a papal bull of Pope Pius V to Cosimo I de' Medici, member of the illustrious House of Medici. His coronation took place in Rome on March 5, 1570, by the hands of the Pope himself.[1]
Cosimo's family, the Medici dynasty, had been ruling the Florentine Republic, the predecessor of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, since 1434, first as Lords of Florence and later as Dukes.[2] The title of Grand Duke, was in fact the second title of recognition within the Tuscan politics given by a Pope to the Medici family, the first being that of Duke of the Florentine Republic, created by Pope Clement VII in 1532.[3][4]
The official residence of the Grand Dukes was the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, bought by the Medici in 1549.[5]
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