!!!Claudia von Medici

b. Florence (Italy), June 4, 1604, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Dec. 25, 1648, Archduchess of Austria, Princess 
of Tyrol (1632), daughter of the Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany, 
1626 married Archduke  Leopold V (d. 1632); 1632-1646 reigned 
with a group of five councillors (including W.  Biener) instead of her 
son Ferdinand Karl (b. 1628), who was still a minor. C. built "Porta 
Claudia" Fortress in the Scharnitz ravine near the Bavarian border 
(blown up in 1805) and strongly promoted the arts (introduced baroque 
theatre), trade (reorganized Bozen/Bolzano Fair in 1635) and crafts in 
Tyrol.

!Literature
F. H. Hye in: Die Habsburger, ed. by B. Hamann, 
%%sup 4/%1993; NDB.



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