Happy Valentine's Day! If Eleonora di Toledo was alive today, she would be celebrating her love for Cosimo I de'Medici. They were so in love, never without the other. She was constantly by his side, always telling him her thoughts in person. She was 17 when she married him. Her mother died just months after the wedding. Her father died in Eleonora's arms the same night that she gave birth to her 10th child, Anna, she was 23. Her heart was broken in the end with the deaths of her 2 sons, Happy Valentine's Day! Alison Oddey 02/14/2016
Happy Valentine's Day! If Eleonora di Toledo was alive today, she would be celebrating her love for Cosimo I de'Medici. They were so in love, never without the other. She was constantly by his side, always telling him her thoughts in person. She was 17 when she married him. Her mother died just months after the wedding. Her father died in Eleonora's arms the same night that she gave birth to her 10th child, Anna, she was 23. Her heart was broken in the end with the deaths of her 2 sons,