Ottaviano de' Medici

Son of Lorenzo de' Medici and wife Caterina Nerli, he married firstly in 1518 Bartolomea Giugni (Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, 5 December 1498 - bef.

From a minor branch of the de' Medici family, he gained prominence through his second marriage in 1533 as her second husband to Francesca Salviati (1505 - aft.

He held several important positions in Florence, including that of Gonfaloniere di Giustizia, although now a merely formal one after the suppression of the Republic by the Spanish troops in 1530.

[citation needed] He was trusted by Alessandro de' Medici with administering the family's Tuscan estates.

His other son Bernadetto founded the southern Italian line of the family by acquiring the seigniory of Ottaviano, near Naples.