Ippolito de' Medici

Ippolito de ' Medici ( * 1511, † August 10 1535 in Itri ) was the illegitimate only son of Giuliano II de' Medici ( 1479-1516 ), the Duke of Nemours.

When Emperor Charles V sacked the city of Rome in 1527, the Florentines took advantage of the unrest in Italy in order to drive out the Medici and to build the new Republic. Alessandro de Medici ( the son of the late Lorenzo II de ' Medici, but perhaps also of Pope Clement VII, the former Giulio de' Medici, the current head of the Medici family), Ippolito and most of their followers fled.

As Clement VII made ​​peace with the Emperor, the Republic was overthrown with the help of imperial troops after a long siege, and the Medici returned in the summer of 1530 to return to power. Ippolito ruled initially the city on behalf of the Pope as head of the Medici family, but increasingly Alessandro favored as master of the city. Clemens made ​​Ippolito on January 10, 1529 Cardinal of San Lorenzo in Damaso, sent him as his ambassador to Hungary and handed the city over the 19 -year-old Alessandro, who had been appointed to the Duke.

1535 sent the Florentine opposition Ippolito de ' Medici because of some actions of the Duke to the Emperor Charles, Ippolito died on the way and there was a rumor spread that he had been poisoned at Alessandro's command.

Fiction

• Susan Hicks Beach: A Cardinal of the Medici. The memoirs of the unknown mother of Cardinal Ippolito de Medici. Rowohlt, Berlin, 1938.