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Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

1671 - 1737

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Gian Gastone de' Medici (born Giovanni Battista Gastone; 25 May 1671 – 9 July 1737) was the seventh and last Medicean grand duke of Tuscany. He was the second son of Grand Duke Cosimo III and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans. His sister, Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa, arranged his marriage to the wealthy and widowed Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg in 1697. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany has received more than 755,489 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany is the 2,445th most popular politician (down from 2,176th in 2019), the 844th most popular biography from Italy (down from 787th in 2019) and the 164th most popular Italian Politician.

Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany is most famous for being the last male heir of the Medici family. He was the son of Grand Duke Cosimo III and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans. He was born on June 16, 1671. He succeeded his father as Grand Duke in 1723. He died on July 8, 1737.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 2,445 out of 19,576. Before him are Pierre Trudeau, Mentuhotep I, Stanley Baldwin, Bilgä Qaǧan, Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, and Henry II, Count of Champagne. After him are François Grimaldi, La Malinche, Francesco Cossiga, Michael V Kalaphates, Andronikos V Palaiologos, and Ottokar I of Bohemia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 4. Before him are Tomaso Albinoni, John Law, and Frederick IV of Denmark. After him are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Rob Roy MacGregor, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Johann Christoph Bach. Among people deceased in 1737, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 3. Before him are Antonio Stradivari, and Caroline of Ansbach. After him are Emperor Nakamikado, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Rinaldo d'Este, François Lemoyne, James Louis Sobieski, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, Ferdinand Kettler, and Guido Starhemberg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 844 out of 5,161. Before him are Federico Barocci (1535), Jacobus da Varagine (1228), Amilcare Ponchielli (1834), Pope Leo V (870), Federico da Montefeltro (1422), and Francesca da Rimini (1259). After him are François Grimaldi (1201), Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1590), Fra Dolcino (1250), Titus Labienus (-100), Francesco Cossiga (1928), and Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1806).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 164. Before him are Herod Agrippa II (28), Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta (1900), Fausta (289), Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia (1751), Berengar II of Italy (900), and Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351). After him are François Grimaldi (1201), Francesco Cossiga (1928), Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (1498), Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (-84), Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia (1726), and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (-519).

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