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Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Ferdinando II de' Medici
(14 July 1610 – 23 May 1670) was
grand duke of Tuscany
from 1621 to 1670. He was the eldest child of
Cosimo II de' Medici
and
Maria Maddalena of Austria
. His 49-year rule was punctuated by the beginning of Tuscany's long economic decline. He married
Vittoria della Rovere
, with whom he had two children:
Cosimo III de' Medici
, his eventual successor, and
Francesco Maria de' Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro
, a
cardinal
.
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