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Cosimo I de' Medici was made Grand Duke of Tuscany by Pope Pius V in 1569. The elevation was a thank you from the Pope for Cosimo's extradition of the "heretic" or "follower of Martin Luther", Pietro Carnesecchi (1508-1567), who had been personally invited to dine with Cosimo I de' Medici on July 4, 1566, in order to then be led away in chains by the Pope's henchmen to eventually be executed and burned. However, the recognition of this high title for the Medici by Emperor Maximilian II. was only achieved after his death by his son Francesco I. in November 1575.
The shape of the new crown was peculiar, and was carefully laid down in the Pope’s bull. This ordered that the crown of Tuscany was to be “radiated like that of the Eastern kings, alternate with the Florentine lily.” It was a royal crown with the points curving outwards, intended to represent the blades of the iris. In the centre of the front was a large red Florentine lily; thus making the crest of Florence’s ancient Republic the chief jewel of the royal crown. The sceptre was also peculiar; it was ordered to be surmounted by the Medici palle, and upon this the Florentine lily. (in: G. F. Young: The Medici, Vol. 2, London 1930, p. 298).
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