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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; 24 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 715,146 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany is the 2,183rd most popular politician (up from 2,454th in 2019), the 789th most popular biography from Italy (up from 882nd in 2019) and the 153rd 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 2,183 out of 15,577Before him are Francisco Solano López, Radu cel Frumos, Pedro V of Portugal, Empress Go-Sakuramachi, Jang Song-thaek, and Jürgen Stroop. After him are Mohammad Khodabanda, Taichang Emperor, Vincent Auriol, Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Ajatashatru.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1671, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 4Before him are Tomaso Albinoni, John Law, and Frederick IV of Denmark. After him are Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Rob Roy MacGregor, Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I, Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Johann Christoph Bach. Among people deceased in 1737, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 4Before him are Antonio Stradivari, Caroline of Ansbach, and Emperor Nakamikado. After him are Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Rinaldo d'Este, James Louis Sobieski, Ferdinand Kettler, François Lemoyne, Vakhtang VI of Kartli, and Lobsang Yeshe, 5th Panchen Lama.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 789 out of 4,668Before him are Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), Lorenzo Lotto (1480), Peter, King of Hungary (1011), Italo Balbo (1896), and Laura Bassi (1711). After him are Poliziano (1454), Carlo Gozzi (1720), Herod Agrippa II (28), Curzio Malaparte (1898), Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776), and Peter Lombard (1096).

Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ranks 153Before him are Robert I, Duke of Parma (1848), Manfred, King of Sicily (1232), Vitiges (475), Lucius Cornelius Cinna (-135), Charles Martel of Anjou (1271), and Peter, King of Hungary (1011). After him are Herod Agrippa II (28), Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (1776), Palmiro Togliatti (1893), Ferdinand, Duke of Parma (1751), Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1797), and Occhiali (1519).