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Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1549 - 1609

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Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (30 July 1549 – 3 February 1609) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1587 to 1609, having succeeded his older brother Francesco I, who presumably died from malaria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany has received more than 372,574 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 40 in 2019). Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany is the 104th most popular nobleman (down from 92nd in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 566th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Italian Nobleman.

Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, is most famous for being the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was the first Grand Duke of Tuscany of the new ruling house of Lorraine, which had been deposed in France.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 104 out of 1,415Before him are Mariana Victoria of Spain, Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Ramesses VI, Ramesses XI, and Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria. After him are Princess Alice of Battenberg, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Anne, Princess Royal, Piero the Unfortunate, Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, and Gaius Caesar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1549, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 2Before him is Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain. After him are Ahmad al-Mansur, Francesco Maria del Monte, Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin, Philippe de Mornay, Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, Duchess Sabine of Württemberg, Francis Solanus, and Juan de Salcedo. Among people deceased in 1609, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 3Before him are Annibale Carracci, and Judah Loew ben Bezalel. After him are Joseph Justus Scaliger, Jacobus Arminius, Federico Zuccari, Gasparo da Salò, John William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Yi San-hae, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and John Leonardi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 643 out of 5,161Before him are Marozia (890), Benozzo Gozzoli (1420), Vittorio Gassman (1922), Giorgio Agamben (1942), Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507), and Luca Signorelli (1450). After him are Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (1701), Luigi Riva (1944), Statius (40), Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (1685), Galeazzo Ciano (1903), and Francesco Redi (1626).

Among NOBLEMEN In Italy

Among noblemen born in Italy, Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 9Before him are Ludovico Sforza (1452), Marie de' Medici (1575), Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen (1771), Giuliano de' Medici (1453), Elisabeth Farnese (1692), and Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1541). After him are Piero the Unfortunate (1472), Gaius Caesar (-20), Joanna I of Naples (1326), Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandia (1474), Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), and Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici (1360).