Vittoria della Rovere | |||||
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Portrait after Justus Sustermans in the Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry
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Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany | |||||
Tenure | 26 September 1633 – 23 May 1670 | ||||
Born |
Ducal Palace of Pesaro, Urbino |
7 February 1622||||
Died | 5 March 1694 Ducal Palace of Pisa, Tuscany |
(aged 72)||||
Spouse | Ferdinando II de' Medici | ||||
Issue |
Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany Francesco Maria, Duke of Rovere |
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House |
House of Medici House of della Rovere |
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Father | Federico Ubaldo della Rovere | ||||
Mother | Claudia de' Medici |
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Vittoria della Rovere |
Vittoria della Rovere (7 February 1622 – 5 March 1694) was Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. She gave her husband four children, two of whom would survive infancy: the future Cosimo III, Tuscany's longest-reigning monarch, and Francesco Maria, a prince of the Church. At the death of her grandfather Francesco Maria della Rovere, she inherited the Duchies of Rovere and Montefeltro, which reverted to her second son, Francesco Maria, at her death. She was later entrusted with the care of her three grandchildren. Her marriage brought a wealth of treasures to the House of Medici, which can today be seen in the Palazzo Pitti and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Rovere was the only child of Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, son of the then incumbent Duke of Urbino, Francesco Maria. Her mother was Claudia de' Medici, a sister of Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and the Duchess of Mantua. As an infant it was expected that she would inherit her grandfather's Duchy of Urbino, but Pope Urban VIII convinced Francesco Maria to resign it to the Papacy. The duchy was eventually annexed to the Papal States by Pope Urban VIII. Instead, she received the Rovere allodial possessions, the Duchies of Rovere and Montefeltro, and art collection which became her property in 1631 aged nine.