Federico died a year later in Urbino. The circumstances of his death are controversial: some believe he was poisoned. However a notary from Urbino, Placido Vagnarelli, has written a much enlightening piece in the beginning of one of his registers. It offers precious details on the time shortly before and after his death. The morning he died, after having supervised the preparation of a horse transport for the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, he returns to bed to sleep, but after 6 pm, as he still has not woken up, his servants search him and find him dead. The consulted doctors established the time of death between noon and 1pm. An autopsy was scheduled. The lungs were infected on one side, and an almost egg-sized accumulation of water was found in his brain. The doctors saw the causes, so tells the notary, in his hairiness and his permanent physical efforts, trying to adapt to the bellicose life-style . The funeral took place on the following Sunday, 2 July, and was accompanied by the whole clergy. The confraternity and 125 high noblemen, all dressed in mourning, with a torch in their hands, the funeral procession went through the city, in front of the whole population of the city of Urbino.Michaël Gasperoni, La morte di Federico Ubaldo della Rovere nel racconto di un notaio urbinate, Pesaro città e contà, 2011. His father resumed the throne and saw the disappearance of the line. His father was forced to bequeath all his property to the Papal States. Claudia de' Medici married in 1626 Leopold V of Austria. Their daughter married the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1633 but her bloodline died out in 1737.
Federico died a year later in Urbino. He was likely poisoned, but autopsy results claim that he died with an epileptic seizure . The funeral took place on the following Sunday, 2 July, and was accompanied by the whole clergy. The confraternity and 125 high noblemen, all dressed in mourning, with a torch in their hands, the funeral procession went through the city, in front of the whole population of the city of Urbino.Michaël Gasperoni, La morte di Federico Ubaldo della Rovere nel racconto di un notaio urbinate, Pesaro città e contà, 2011. His father resumed the throne and saw the disappearance of the line. His father was forced to bequeath all his property to the Papal States. Claudia de' Medici married in 1626 Leopold V of Austria. Their daughter married the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1633 but her bloodline died out in 1737.
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The circumstances of his death are controversial: some believe he was poisoned. However a notary from Urbino, Placido Vagnarelli, has written a much enlightening piece in the beginning of one of his registers. It offers precious details on the time shortly before and after his death. The morning he died, after having supervised the preparation of a horse transport for the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, he returns to bed to sleep, but after 6 pm, as he still has not woken up, his servants search him and find him dead. The consulted doctors established the time of death between noon and 1pm. An autopsy was scheduled. The lungs were infected on one side, and an almost egg-sized accumulation of water was found in his brain. The doctors saw the causes, so tells the notary, in his hairiness and his permanent physical efforts, trying to adapt to the bellicose life-style
He was likely poisoned, but autopsy results claim that he died with an epileptic seizure