Edited sentence: The former Kingdom of Italy and the current Italian Republic also did not recognize the order.The last member of the Medici dynasty to be a leader of the order was Gian Gastone de Medici in 1737.The order was created by Cosimo I de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany.The order was permanently abolished in 1859 by the annexation of Tuscany to the Kingdom of Sardinia