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Francesca Funis is a DeRoy Research Fellow at the Medici Archive Project. The text was edited by Mike Samuda .
Betrothed at seven and married seven years later, Margaret of Habsburg, the illegitimate daughter of the Emperor Charles V, became a widow in 1537, at the tender age of 15. Her 27-year-old husband, Alessandro de’Medici the Duke of Florence, the illegitimate son of Giulio de’
