Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo

Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo
Born	(Mairch 1553 Florence, Tuscany
Dee'd	10 Julie 1576 (aged 23)) Medici Villa, Cafaggiolo, Tuscany
Buirial	Basilica o San Lorenzo, Florence, Tuscany
Spouse	Pietro de' Medici
Full name Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo
Hoose	Medici
Faither	García de Toledo Osorio
Mither	Vittoria Colonna
Releegion	Roman Catholicism

Eleonora di Garzia di Toledo (Mairch 1553 – 10 Julie 1576), mair weel kent as "Leonora" or "Dianora", wis a dochter o García Álvarez de Toledo, 4t Marquis o Villafranca, Duke o Fernandina. She wis born in Florence, where she wis brocht up bi Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke o Tuscany an his wife Eleanor o Toledo, her aunt an namesake. Haunfastit tae their son Pietro at the age o 15, she fordert unner the wing o Pietro's aulder sister, the artistic patron Isabella, Duchess o Bracciano, intae a querty an witty beauty. Her mairiage, like Isabella's, wis wansonsie, an she follaed her mentor's ensaumple o takkin hersel jo's. For this raison, Pietro haed her brocht in 1576 tae the laundwart place o haun o Cafaggiolo, whaur he thrapplet her tae the daith wi a dug lead. Cosimo's successor, Grand Duke Francesco I, tacitly appruived o the murther, an Pietro wis niver brocht tae justice for it.

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