Clarice di Piero de' Medici (14 September 1489 – 3 May 1528) was the daughter of

Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici (15 February 1472 – 28 December 1503), called Piero the Fatuous or Piero the Unfortunate, was the lord of Florence from 1492 until his exile in 1494. Early life Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici was the eldest son of Lor ...

and Alfonsina Orsini. Born in

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, she was the granddaughter of

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, niece of Pope Leo X and sister to

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. After her brother's premature death in 1519, she educated his daughter

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, the future Queen of France. In 1508 she married Filippo Strozzi the Younger and moved to

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. Filippo and Clarice had ten children: * Piero Strozzi (1 March 1511 - 21 June 1558),

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and

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*Maria Strozzi (13 August 1514, died between 1551 and 1575), married Lorenzo Ridolfi in 1529. * Leone Strozzi (15 October 1515 - 28 June 1554),

and Knight of Malta * Luisa Strozzi (died 5 December 1534), married Senator Luigi Capponi in 1533. *Roberto Strozzi (12 October 1520 - 1566), married Maddalena di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (

, c. 1523 -

, 14 April 1583), daughter of Pierfrancesco II de' Medici *Maddalena Strozzi (1521-1596), married Count Flaminio dell'Anguillara in 1538. *Giulio Strozzi (1522 - 14 December 1537) * Lorenzo Strozzi (3 December 1523 - 14 December 1571), abbot and

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*Vincenzo Strozzi (died

, 1537). He was mad *Alessandro Strozzi (died 31 October 1541) She died in 1528 from either miscarriage or childbirth complications of a stillborn child

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* 1489 births 1528 deaths Nobility from the Republic of Florence Clarice 16th-century Italian nobility 16th-century Italian women Deaths in childbirth {{italy-noble-stub