Clarice Orsini
Noble person
1453 – 1487
Who was Clarice Orsini?
Clarice Orsini was the daughter of Jacopo Orsini, Lord of Monterotondo and Bracciano, and his wife and cousin Maddalena Orsini. Born in the Papal States, she is most known as the wife of Lorenzo de' Medici, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic. She was the mother of Pope Leo X.
Lorenzo and Clarice were married by proxy on 7 February 1469. The marriage was arranged by Lorenzo's mother Lucrezia Tornabuoni, who wanted her eldest son to marry a woman from a noble family, in order to enhance the social status of the Medicis. Clarice's dowry was 6,000 florins. She arrived in Florence on 4 June 1469.
Clarice was not popular in Florence, because her strict religious personality was in deep contrast with the humanist ideals of the age. Even Lorenzo preferred a Florentine woman, Lucrezia Donati, to whom he dedicated his poems. Of the nine children born to them, three died in infancy.
During the Pazzi Conspiracy, which was aimed at murdering Lorenzo and his younger brother Giuliano, Clarice and her children were sent to Pistoia.
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- Born
- 1453
Monterotondo - Spouses
- Lorenzo de' Medici
(1469/02/07 - 1492)
- Lorenzo de' Medici
- Children
- Lived in
- Rome
- Died
- Jul 29, 1487
Florence
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on July 23, 2013
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