High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Duchy of Florence (Italian: Ducato di Firenze) was an Italian monarchy that was centred on the city of Florence, in modern Tuscany, Italy. The duchy was founded in 1532 when Clement VII (ruler of the Papal States and Florence and Pope of the Catholic Church) appointed his illegitimate son (some historians suggest he was the son of Lorenzo II, Duke of Urbino) Alessandro de' Medici Duke of the Florentine Republic, thereafter making the previously-existing Republic of Florence a hereditary monarchy. Florence had been under unofficial Medici control since 1434. The Duchy of Florence had two Dukes, Alessandro and Cosimo I. Alessandro ruled as Duke until his assassination in 1537. Cosimo was chosen to succeed his distant relative by Florentine authorities. Cosimo established a strong Florentine navy, and made the greatest single territorial acquisition to Florence, the annexation of the Republic of Siena after it lost the Battle of Marciano in...

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