Claudia de' Medici

Claudia de' Medici (4 June 1604 – 25 December 1648) was Regent of the Austrian County of Tyrol during the minority of her son from 1632 until 1646.

[1] She was named after her grandmother Claude of Valois, herself daughter of Catherine de Medici, Queen of France , granddaughter of Claude, Duchess of Brittany, consort to King Francis I of France.

[2] Federico Ubaldo della Rovere died suddenly on 29 June 1623.

[4] On the death of her husband in 1632, she assumed a regency in the name of her son Ferdinand Charles who was the ruler of the Princely County of Tyrol.

[5] She had one child by Federico Ubaldo della Rovere: She had five children by Archduke Leopold V of Austria: Media related to Claudia de' Medici at Wikimedia Commons