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The first de facto Lord (Italian: Signore) in the history of the Republic of Florence was Cosimo de' Medici.Thanks to his moderate policy, Cosimo managed to maintain power for over thirty years until his death, ruling the state silently through his trusted men and thus allowing the consolidation of his family, the Medici, in the government of Florence.
The Florence Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama.Florence was founded in 1818 by the Cypress Land Company, who counted among its trustees Creek War General John Coffee, future Governor of Alabama Thomas Bibb, early Huntsville settler LeRoy Pope, and future United States Senator and Supreme Court Justice John McKinley.
Florence is a city in, and the county seat of, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwestern corner, and had a population of 40,184 in the 2020 census. [5]
Piero di Cosimo de' Medici, known as Piero the Gouty (Italian: Piero "il Gottoso"), (1416 – 2 December 1469) [1] was the de facto ruler of Florence from 1464 to 1469, during the Italian Renaissance.
Alamanni is the name of a noble family of Florence. Originally of German origin, [1] as mentioned in a 1478 poem on the glories of Florence by Ugolino Verino: Nobile e antica fu la schiatta deli Alamanni. Gente venuta da lontano, originata da sangue germanico "Noble and ancient was the lineage of the Alamanni.
A modern example of a de facto ruler is Ahmed al-Sharaa who became the de facto leader of Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. [19] Another example of a de facto ruler is someone who is not the actual ruler but exerts great or total influence over the true ruler, which is quite common in monarchies.
September – Cosimo de' Medici, later the de facto ruler of Florence and patron of Marsilio Ficino, is exiled by the Albizzi/Strozzi faction (Cosimo returns a year later, in September 1434). [7] October – Iliaș of Moldavia is deposed by his half-brother and joint ruler Stephen II. [8]
The House of Medici (English: / ˈ m ɛ d ɪ tʃ i / MED-itch-ee, UK also / m ə ˈ d iː tʃ i / mə-DEE-chee; [4] Italian: [ˈmɛːditʃi]) was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici and his grandson Lorenzo "the Magnificent" during the first half of the 15th century.