Genealogy of the House of Medici

the house of Medici


  • Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici + Piccarda Bueri

    • Cosimo de' Medici the Elder (sponsor of Marsilio Ficino, and member of Order of the Crescent founded by René of Anjou) + Contessina de' Bardi

      • Piero di Cosimo de' Medici + Contessina de' Bardi

        • Lorenzo de' Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificent) + Clarice Orsini

          • Piero the Unfortunate + Alfonsina Orsini

            • Lorenzo de Medici, Duke of Urbino + Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne

              • Catherine de Medici (sponsor of Nostradamus, practitioner of Black Mass) + Henry II of France

                • Claude of France + Charles III, Duke of Lorraine

                  • Henry II, Duke of Lorraine + Margherita Gonzaga (see below)

                  • Christina of Lorraine + (patron of Galileo)

                • Henry III of France (educated in Black Arts by his mother) + Louise of Lorraine

            • Clarice de Medici + Filippo Strozzi the Younger

          • Pope Leo X

          • Lucrezia de Medici + Jacopo Salviati

            • Maria Salviati + Giovanni delle Bande Nere (see below)

        • Giuliano de' Medici + Fioretta Gorini

          • Pope Clement VII

    • Lorenzo the Elder + Ginevra Cavalcanti

      • Pierfrancesco the Elder + Laudomia di Agnolo Acciaioli

        • Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (with his brother, educated by Marsilio Ficino, sponsors of Amerigo Vespuci, supporters of heretic Savonarola)

        • Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano + Caterina Sforza (g-d of Francesco I Sforza, member of Order of the Crescent, founded by René of Anjou, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion. Conducted alchemical experients)

          • Giovanni delle Bande Nere + Maria Salviati (see above)

            • Cosimo I de' Medici (Order of the Golden Fleece) + Eleanor of Toledo (brought up in the household of Jacob Abarbanel’s son Don Samuel Abarbanel and daughter-in-law Benvenida)

              • Lucrezia, Duchess of Modena + Alfonso II d'Este (ally of Rudolf II, supporter of John Dee)

              • Francesco I de' Medici + Joanna of Austria (daughter of Ferdinand I and Anna Jagellonica)

                • Marie de Medici + Henry IV of France

                  • Louis XIII of France + Anne of Austria (d. of Philip III of Spain, Order of the Golden Fleece)

                    • Louis XIV, King of France

                    • Philippe I, Duke of Orléans + Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (g.d. of Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart of Alchemical Wedding)

                      • Élisabeth Charlotte d’Orléans + Leopold, Duke of Lorraine

                        • Francis I + Empress Maria-Theresa (supported Jacob Frank)

                          • Joseph II (had affair with Eva, daughter of Jacob Frank)

                      • Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674 – 1723, friend of Chevalier Michael Ramsay) + Françoise Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Blois (d. of Louis XIV + Madame de Montespan (1640 – 1707), close to Philippe I, and accused of Black Mass)

                        • Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752)

                          • Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (1725 – 1785)

                            • Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1747 – 1793), aka Philippe Égalité, Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France

                    • Philippe I, Duke of Orléans + Henrietta of England (see below)

                  • Elisabeth + Philip IV of Spain

                  • Christine of France (built Palazzo Madama according advice of alchemists) + Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (grandson of Emmanuel Philibert and Margaret of Valois who consulted Nostradamus for the birth of their son Charles Emmanuel I)

                    • Charles Emmanuel II + Christine of France (s. Of Louis XIII)

                      • Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia + (see below)

                  • Gaston, Duke of Orléans + Marguerite of Lorraine (see below)

                  • Henrietta Maria + Charles I, King of England (s. of King James I)

                    • Charles II of England + Catherine of Braganza

                      • Lady Mary Tudor + Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater

                        • James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater

                        • CHARLES RADCLYFFE (founder of the Grand Lodge of England, officer in the Order of the Fleur de Lys, and Grand Master of the PRIORY OF SION)

                    • Mary, Princess of Orange + William II, Prince of Orange

                      • William III of England + Mary II of England

                    • James II & VII + Mary of Modena

                      • James Francis Edward Stuart (“The Old Pretender”) + Maria Clementina Sobieska

                        • CHARLES EDWARD STUART (Bonnie Prince Charlie, "the Young Pretender")

                        • HENRY BENEDICT STUART (Cardinal Duke of York)

                    • Henrietta of England + Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (Order of the Golden Fleece)

                      • Anne Marie d'Orléans + Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (see above)

                        • Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia + Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg

                          • Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia + Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain (see above)n

                            • Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia

                            • Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (Order of the Golden Fleece) + (see below)

                            • Charles Felix, King of Sardinia (Order of the Golden Fleece)

                • Eleanor de Medici + Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (Order of the Golden Fleece, nephew of Louis Gonzaga, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)

                  • Francesco IV Gonzaga + Margaret of Savoy (d. of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, whose birth was prophesied by Nostradamus)

                  • Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua + Catherine de Medici, Governor of Siena (see below)

                    • Maria + Charles II of Gonzaga, Duke of Rethel end Nevers

                      • Charles Gonzaga + Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria

                      • Eleanor Gonzaga + Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

                        • Eleonora Maria of Austria + (see below)

                  • Margherita Gonzaga + Henry II, Duke of Lorraine (see above)

                    • Nicole of Lorraine + Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine

                      • Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (Order of the Golden Fleece)+ Eleonora Maria of Austria (d. of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor + Eleanor Gonzaga)

                        • Leopold, Duke of Lorraine + Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (d. of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans + Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine)

                          • Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece) + Maria Theresa (supporter of Jacob Frank)

                            • Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece, had affair with Eva, daughter of Jacob Frank)

                            • Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece) + Maria Luisa of Spain (d. Charles III of Spain, Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece)

                              • Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece) + Princess Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily

                                • Archduke Franz Karl + Princess Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily

                                  • Franz Joseph I of Austria (Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece)

                                  • Maximilian I of Mexico

                                  • Archduke Karl Ludwig + Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies + Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony

                                    • Archduke Franz Ferdinand + Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

                                    • Archduke Otto of Austria + Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony

                                      • Charles I of Austria + Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma

                                        • Otto von Habsburg (Grand Master of the Order of the Golden Fleece)

                            • Archduke Ferdinand of Austria

                            • Marie Antoinette + Louis XVI

                            • Archduke Maximilian Francis (Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)

                          • Charles Alexander (Order of the Golden Fleece, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion)

                    • Claude of Valois + Charles III, Duke of Lorraine

                      • Christina of Lorraine + Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (see below)

                      • Francis II, Duke of Lorraine + Christina of Salm

                        • Marguerite of Lorraine + Gaston, Duke of Orléans (see above)

                          • Marguerite Louise d'Orléans + Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (see below)

                  • Vincenzo II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (in contact with alchemist Sendivogius, acquaintance of John Dee)

                  • Eleonora + Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (Order of the Golden Fleece)

              • Cardinal Ferdinando I de Medici (friend of Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, sponsor of Caravaggio) + Christina of Lorraine (see above)

                • Cosimo II de' Medici (sponsor of Galileo) + Maria Maddalena of Austria (d. of Charles II, Archduke of Austria, third son of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and of Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, daughter of King Vladislaus II of Hungary)

                  • Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Vittoria della Rovere (see below)

                • Catherine de Medici, Governor of Siena + Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua

                • Claudia de' Medici + Federico Ubaldo della Rovere

                  • Vittoria della Rovere + Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (see above)

                    • Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany + Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (see above)

                      • Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (educated Count of Saint Germain) + Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg