Maddalena de' Medici (1473–1528)

Maria Maddalena Romola de' Medici (July 25, 1473 – 2 December 1528) was the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini.

Born in Florence, she was educated with her siblings to the humanistic cultures by figures such as Agnolo Poliziano. On February 25, 1487 she married Franceschetto Cybo, son of Pope Innocent VIII. Thenceforth Maddalena lived in Rome but, after her father's death (1492), she resided also in Tuscany and Liguria.

Maddalena lived again mostly in Rome after the election of her brother Giovanni as Pope Leo X, and died there in 1528. She was buried in St. Peter's Basilica by order of her cousin, Pope Clement VII.

Issue

Franceschetto and Maddalena had seven children:

1. Lucrezia Cybo (1489–1492)
2. Clarice Cybo (1490–1492) born deformed, died as a child
3. Innocenzo Cybo (1491–1550), Cardinal
4. Lorenzo Cybo (1500–1549) Duke of Ferentillo, married Ricciarda Malaspina and founded the Cybo Malaspina family
5. Caterina Cybo (1501–1557), married the Duke of Camerino
6. Ippolita Cybo (1503–1503)
7. Giovanni Battista Cybo (1505–1550)

Ancestry

Family of Maddalena de' Medici (1473–1528)

16. Giovanni de' Medici 8. Cosimo de' Medici 17. Piccarda Bueri 4. Piero the Gouty 18. Alessandro de' Bardi 9. Contessina de' Bardi 2. Lorenzo de' Medici 20. Simone Tornabuoni 10. Francesco di Simone Tornabuoni 5. Lucrezia Tornabuoni 22. Niccolo Guicciardini 11. Nanna di Niccolo di Luigi Guicciardini 1. Maddalena de' Medici 24. Francesco Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo 12. Orso Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo 25. Costanza Annibaldeschi 6. Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo and Bracciano 13. Lucrezia Conti 3. Clarissa Orsini 28. Giovanni Orsini, Lord of Bracciano 14. Carlo Orsini, Lord of Bracciano 29. Bartolomea Spinelli 7. Maddalena Orsini 30. Giacomo Orsini, Count of Tagliacozzo 15. Paola Orsini 31. Isabella Marzano