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Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara

1545 - 1561

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Lucrezia de' Medici (14 February 1545 – 21 April 1561) was a member of the House of Medici and by marriage Duchess consort of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1558 to 1561. Married to the intended husband of her elder sister Maria, who died young, her marriage was short and unhappy. The Duchess died of pulmonary tuberculosis, but almost immediately after her death there were rumors that she had been poisoned on the orders of her husband. That suspicion inspired the English poet Robert Browning to create a dramatic monologue in verse "My Last Duchess" (1842). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara is the 195th most popular nobleman (up from 279th in 2019), the 970th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,410th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Italian Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara ranks 195 out of 1,415. Before her are Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Maria Theresa of Savoy, Daniel of Moscow, Maximilian Sforza, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, and William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. After her are Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Elizabeth of Austria, Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Queen Letizia of Spain, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Bertrada of Laon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1545, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara ranks 7. Before her are Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Yi Sun-sin, Carlos, Prince of Asturias, Elisabeth of Valois, Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, and Túpac Amaru. After her are John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg, Powhatan, Anna of Sweden, Azai Nagamasa, Cığalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, and Guidobaldo del Monte. Among people deceased in 1561, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara ranks 4. Before her are Rüstem Pasha, Şehzade Bayezid, and Menno Simons. After her are Gülfem Hatun, Matteo Bandello, Lope de Aguirre, Sayri Túpac, Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, Bairam Khan, Claude Garamond, and Jan Tarnowski.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara ranks 970 out of 5,161. Before her are Gemma Galgani (1878), Frances of Rome (1384), Alfonso II of Naples (1448), Giorgio Morandi (1890), Arrigo Boito (1842), and Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (1587). After her are Edda Mussolini (1910), Occhiali (1519), Valerius Maximus (-100), Guarino Guarini (1624), Gian Maria Volonté (1933), and Antipope John XVI (1000).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Italy

Among noblemen born in Italy, Lucrezia de' Medici, Duchess of Ferrara ranks 25. Before her are Isabella d'Este (1474), Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1444), Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1533), Beatrice d'Este (1475), Maria Theresa of Savoy (1756), and Maximilian Sforza (1493). After her are Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), Luisa of Naples and Sicily (1773), Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1431), Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (1667), Archduke John of Austria (1782), and Eleonora Gonzaga (1630).

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