Porzia de' Medici
Porzia de' Medici( 1538 – 1565) was an Italian missionary and illegitimate daughter of Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence and an unknown mother.
She was born after the assassination of Alessandro and was placed as a young child in the Augustinian convent of San Clemente in Via San Gallo.
The convent was founded by Maria Salviati, the mother of Cosimo I de' Medici, to shelter the illegitimate daughters of Alessandro.
Porzia took her final vows and became a Roman Catholic nun.
Eventually she became the abbess of the convent.
Porzia was in close contact with members of the de' Medici family, including her half- sister Giulia de' Medici and her half- brother Giulio.
A mural was painted depicting Porzia with Francesco, Ferdinando, Giovanni, and Garzia, the four sons of Cosimo I de' Medici.
That mural has since been lost.
Her half- sister Giulia often visited Porzia at her convent.
She died in the convent at the age of twenty- seven.
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici( c. 1360 – February 1429) was an Italian banker and founder of the Medici Bank.
While other members of the Medici family, such as Chiarissimo di Giambuono de' Medici, who served in the Signoria of Florence in 1201, and Salvestro de' Medici, who was implicated in the Ciompi Revolt of 1378, are of historical interest, it was Giovanni's founding of the family bank that truly initiated the family's rise to power in Florence.
He was the father of Cosimo de' Medici and Lorenzo de' Medici, and an ancestor of other notable Medici rulers.
For example, he was the grandfather of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici; the great- grandfather of Lorenzo de' Medici( the Magnificent); and the great- great- great- grandfather of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Alfonsina Orsini
Alfonsina Orsini (1472 – 1520) was a Regent of Florence.
She governed the Republic of Florence during the absences of her son in the period of 1515–1519.
Her rule was feared as a sign of the end of republican government there.
She was born from a noble family and raised in the royal court of Naples.
She was the spouse of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici from 1488 and the mother of Lorenzo II de' Medici.
She helped restore the Medicis to power after they had been exiled.
She worked to secure a French royal marriage for her son, and was also influential at the court of Pope Leo X, her brother-in-law.
Throughout her life, she used her wealth, position, and connections to help the poor and underrepresented.
She also used them to further her family's power and wealth.
She was a patron of the arts and architecture, both in Florence and in Rome.
This included renovation of religious buildings as well as construction of palaces for the family.
Clarice de' Medici
Clarice de' Medici (1493–1528) was the daughter of Piero di Lorenzo de' Medici and Alfonsina Orsini.
Born in Florence, she was the granddaughter of Lorenzo de' Medici, niece of Pope Leo X and sister to Lorenzo II de' Medici.
After her brother's premature death in 1519, she educated his daughter Catherine, the future Queen of France.
In 1508 she married Filippo Strozzi the Younger and moved to Rome.
Filippo and Clarice had ten children:
Luisa de' Medici
Luisa de' Medici( 25 December 1476- 1488) was an Italian noble.
She was the daughter of Lorenzo de' Medici and Clarice Orsini.
She was going to marry with her fiancé Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, but she died in 1488 at aged 11.
Bianca de' Medici
Bianca de' Medici( 10 September 1445 – 1488) was a member of the de' Medici family," de facto" rulers of Florence in the late 15th century.
She was the daughter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici," de facto" ruler of the Florentine Republic, and sister of Lorenzo de' Medici, who succeeded his father in that position.
She married Guglielmo de' Pazzi, a member of the Pazzi family.
She was a musician, and played the organ for Pope Pius II and the future Pope Alexander VI in 1460; she was a landowner.
Eleanor de' Medici
Eleonor de' Medici( 28 February
1567 – 9 September 1611) was a Duchess of Mantua by marriage to Vincenzo I Gonzaga.
She was a daughter of Francesco I de' Medici and Joanna of Austria.
She was a family member of the famous House of Medici and the sister of Marie de' Medici the Queen of France.
Averardo de' Medici
Averardo de' Medici( 1330 – 1363), also known as Everard De Medici or Bicci to disambiguate with his two homonymous ancestors, was the son of Salvestro de' Medici( died 1346)," il Chiarissimo"( English meaning" the fairest" for his complexion, or also interpreted as" the clearest.") and the father of three children: Giovanni, Francesco, and Antonia.
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici would later become the first historically significant member of the Medici family of Florence and the founder of the Medici Bank.
He was named after the legendary knight Averardo, from whom the Medici claimed descent.
He was a second cousin of Salvestro de' Medici.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Nannina de' Medici
Nannina de' Medici( 14 February 1448 – 14 May 1493), born Lucrezia de' Medici, was the second daughter of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici and Lucrezia Tornabuoni.
She was thus the elder sister of Lorenzo de' Medici.
She married Bernardo Rucellai.
Her father's name was Piero, so she is sometimes known as Lucrezia di Piero de' Medici.

Question: When was Clarice De' Medici's mother born?
Answer: 1472