Grand Prince of Tuscany (1642-1723)
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He held Tuscany for fifty-three years — the longest reign in its history — and watched it collapse into economic ruin under his hand. Cosimo III spent his final decades trying to rewrite succession law so his daughter could inherit, a campaign that died with him.
Cosimo III became Grand Duke in 1670, the elder son of Ferdinando II and sixth Medici to rule Tuscany. His marriage to Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, cousin of Louis XIV, was solemnized by proxy at the Louvre in 1661 and proved disastrous; she eventually abandoned Florence for a convent in Montmartre. They had three children: Ferdinando in 1663, Anna Maria Luisa in 1667, and Gian Gastone in 1671. His reign was marked by laws regulating prostitution and May celebrations, and by Tuscany's slide into previously unknown economic lows. When it became clear his sons would produce no heirs, he tried to…
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I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see [that] paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.
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