Ippolito de' Medici

Ippolito de' Medici (1511-1535) was the illegitimate only son of Cardinal Giuliano de' Medici.

He ruled Florence on behalf of his cousin Pope Clement VII, head of the Medici house, who increasingly favored his own illegitimate son Alessandro, and made Ippolito a cardinal instead, and sent him as Papal legate to Hungary.

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See also: Ippolito de' Medici, 1511, 1535, Alessandro de' Medici, Biography, Cardinal (Catholicism), Florence, Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, Hungary