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His birth name was "Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici"
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This is really impressive because he was just 13 years old!
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In 1492 he became a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals and attempted to take up residence in Rome. The death of his father later in the same year, however, brought him back to Florence, where he lived with his older brother, Piero.
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He lived in Florence until he was exiled in November 1494 with the other members of the Medici family on the charge of betraying the republic.
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For the next six years, (from 1494 to 1500), Cardinal de’ Medici traveled throughout northern Europe until in the 1500 he returned to Italy and settled in Rome.
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He has been the head of the Church in 9 March 1513 until his death in 1521.
Leo X was not only the head of the Christian church but also the temporal ruler of the Papal States and head of the Medici family that ruled the Florentine republic. He appointed his cousin Giulio de’ Medici (the future pope Clement VII) to the influential archbishopric of Florence. He also named his younger brother Giuliano and his nephew Lorenzo to be Roman patricians. Giuliano’s premature death in 1516 brought an end -
Francis entered Italy in August 1515, and on 14 September won the battle of Marignano. In October, Leo signed an agreement binding him to withdraw his troops from Parma and Piacenza, which had been previously gained at the expense of the duchy of Milan, on condition of French protection at Rome and Florence.
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Pope Leo X invites Thomas Wolsey as a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church in England.
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He is probably best remembered for granting indulgences for those who donated to reconstruct St. Peter's Basilica, which practice was challenged by Martin Luther's 95 Theses. He seems not to have taken seriously the array of demands for church reform that would quickly grow into the Protestant Reformation. His Papal Bull of 1520, Exsurge Domine, simply condemned Luther on a number of areas and made ongoing engagement difficult.
