Catherina Maria de' Medici

Catherina Maria (1670 - present) is a noblewoman, head of House Medici, 1st daughter and child of Cosimo III and Marguerite Louise.

Childhood - Duchess of Pisa
Catherina was born on the 1st of January 1670 to Cosimo III, prince of Florence and Marguerite Louis d'Orleans.

Catherina was raised in the Medici arts of poison and spying, her childhood was quite interesting. Her two other siblings were raised with her as the Medici always put family first. They always had a comfortable life as the Medici are a very wealthy family. In 1680 she was forced by her Father to poison her 8 year old brother's friend, Giovanni de' Pazzi as his family had betrayed their trust, he was her first victim of the art of poison.

Late Teens - Duchess of Pisa
In 1685 she married her cousin, Ferdinando Francesco de' Medici and later that year gave birth to their eldest child and only son Lorenzo Emmanuele. Two years after in 1687 she gave birth to their second child and only daughter Contessina Maria. When Lorenzo turned 7 and his sister 5 she started teaching them the art of poison. She told her children."'Family matters most to a Medici and you must be willing to do anything for them and this includes the Art of Poison'"The year after she started teaching the art of espionage. She was hard on her children, but she loved them and would do anything for them.

Early Adulthood - Princess of Florence
Catherina became Princess at the age of 28 in 1698 after her father's death at the age of 56. The Medici's gathered in the Medici Chapel in Florence, for his funeral, the next day they went to the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower, for the official Funeral for the Citizens of Florence. She had inherited everything from her Father. Her mother Marguerite Louis d'Orleans returned to France after Cosimo's sudden death in fear of being murdered, as said in her diary and later died of a mysterious cause while living in Versailles. Many Medici relatives think it might have been the relatives of the Pazzi members they had slaughtered in 1680, who poisoned both Cosimo and Marguerite. She went to Versailles to make sure the transportation of her mother's body back to Florence would go smoothly. Once the body returned to Florence, the funerals were held and she returned back to Rome with her children and Husband. That same year the Pizza Villa mysteriously caught on fire, only Lady Lucrezia Anna de' Pazzi who still thinks to this day that Catherina was the mastermind behind the fire. Catherina attended her son's wedding to the Royal Princess Adelina Lucrezia at Saint Peter's Basilica in 1700.