Alessandro de' Medici (1560 – 1606), 2nd Lord of Ottajano, was an Italian patrician, belonging to

Neapolitan Neapolitan means of or pertaining to Naples, a city in Italy; or to: Geography and history * Province of Naples, a province in the Campania region of southern Italy that includes the city * Duchy of Naples, in existence during the Early and High ...

branch of

House of Medici The House of Medici ( , ; ) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo de' Medici, Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first h ...

Biography

A member of a cadet branch of the

Medici family The House of Medici ( , ; ) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th ...

(the one later called the

Princes of Ottajano The Princes of Ottajano (or Ottaiano) are a cadet branch of the ducal dynasty of Tuscany. Along with the Veronese Medici Counts of Caprara, and Gavardo, they make up the closest relatives to the main line of the House of Medici, which ended in th ...

), he was the son of

Bernadetto de' Medici Bernardetto de' Medici (died Naples, after 1576), 1st Lord of Ottajano, was an Italian patrician who moved from Florence to Naples and established the Ottaviano, Ottaiano branch of Medici - one of two Medici branches still extant. Biography A ...

and wife and cousin Giulia de' Medici. He was

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of the

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since April 1605 and

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of Borgo He married Delia Sanseverino of the Counts of Saponara. His son was Don

Ottaviano de' Medici, 1st Prince of Ottajano Don Ottaviano de' Medici (1604 – 1629), 3rd Lord and 1st Prince of Ottajano, was an Italian patrician, belonging to Napolitan branch of House of Medici. He was the first to hold the title of Prince of Ottajano. Biography A member of a cadet ...

. Alessandro 16th-century Italian nobility 16th-century Neapolitan people 1560 births 1606 deaths {{Italy-noble-stub