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Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence

Alessandro de' Medici (22 July 1510 – 6 January 1537), nicknamed "il Moro" due to his dark complexion, Duke of Penne and the first Duke of the Florentine Republic (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 to his death in 1537.[2] The first Medici to rule Florence as a hereditary monarch, Alessandro was also the last Medici from the senior line of the family to lead the city. His assassination at the hands of distant cousin Lorenzaccio caused the title of Duke to pass to Cosimo I de Medici, from the family's junior branch.

This article is about the first Duke of Florence. For the Alessandro de' Medici who was pope, see Pope Leo XI.

Alessandro de' Medici

1 May 1532 – 6 January 1537

Ippolito de' Medici

Cosimo I de' Medici

(1510-07-22)22 July 1510
Florence, Republic of Florence

6 January 1537(1537-01-06) (aged 26)
Florence, Duchy of Florence

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(m. 1536)​

Medici

Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, or Pope Clement VII

Simonetta da Collevecchio

Catholicism

(1999). The House of Medici, Its Rise and Fall.

Hibbert, Christopher

(1936). History of Florence.

Schevill, Ferdinand

Brackett, John (2005) "Race and Rulership: Alessandro de' Medici, first Medici Duke of Florence, 1529–1537," in T.F. Earle and K.J.P. Lowe, Black Africans in Renaissance Europe.

Fletcher, Catherine (2016). The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici.

PBS online page discussing his ancestry, and his heirs (Note: this article is known to contain at least one elementary error, involving the well-known Medici tombs.). Updated in A View on Race and the Art World.

Alessandro de Medici