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{{Short description|Italian politician}}
{{other uses|Ottaviano de' Medici, 1st Prince of Ottajano|Ottaviano de' Medici (born 1957)}}
[[File:Stemma dei Medici di Ottaviano.png|thumb|Great coat of arms of Medici of Ottaviano.]]
'''Ottaviano de' Medici''' (11 July 1484 – 28 May 1546) was an Italian politician. He was the ancestor of the [[Princes of Ottajano]] line of the [[Medici family]].
From a minor branch of the Medici family, he gained prominence through his marriage to [[Francesca Salviati]], a granddaughter of [[Lorenzo de' Medici]] and Ottaviano's own distant cousin.<ref name="Williams2004">{{cite book|author=George L. Williams|title=Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-mq7ctwMNdoC&pg=PA75|date=1 January 2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2071-1|pages=75}}</ref>
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. He was also Senator from 1532.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} He was trusted by [[Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence|Alessandro de' Medici]] with administering the family's Tuscan estates.<ref name="Vaughan,2013">{{cite book|author=Herbert Vaughan|title=The Medici Popes: Leo X and Clement VII|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BId8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT272|date=16 April 2013|publisher=Read Books Limited|isbn=978-1-4474-8162-1|pages=272}}</ref>
His son Alessandro was cardinal and, from 1605, pope as [[Pope Leo XI|Leo XI]]. His other son [[Bernadetto de' Medici|Bernadetto]] founded the southern Italian line of the family by acquiring the seigniory of [[Ottaviano]], near [[Naples]].<ref name="Williams2004"/>
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[[Category:1484 births]]
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[[Category:16th-century Italian nobility]]
[[Category:16th-century Italian politicians]]