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{{Short description|Duke of Urbino (1621–1623)}}
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{{Infobox royalty
|consort = yes
| name = Federico Ubaldo 
| image = Portrait of Federico Ubaldo della Rovere by Claudio Ridolfi.jpg
| full name = Federico Ubaldo della Rovere
| succession = [[Duke of Urbino]]
| reign=3 November 1621 &ndash; 28 June 1623
| predecessor = [[Francesco Maria II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino|Francesco Maria II]]
| successor = Francesco Maria II 
| spouse = [[Claudia de' Medici]]
| issue = [[Vittoria della Rovere|Vittoria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany]]
| birth_date = 16 May 1605
| birth_place = [[Ducal Palace of Pesaro]], [[Duchy of Urbino]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1623|06|28|1605|05|16|df=y}}
| death_place = Ducal Palace of Pesaro, Urbino
| father = Francesco Maria, Duke of Urbino
| mother = [[Livia della Rovere]]
}}
'''Federico Ubaldo [[della Rovere]]''' (16 May 1605 – 28 June 1623) was [[Duke of Urbino]] from 1621 to 1623. He was father of [[Vittoria della Rovere]], Grand Duchess of Tuscany. 

==Biography==
His father [[Francesco Maria II della Rovere]] was popularly urged to remarry after the death of his first wife in 1598, with the marriage producing no heirs. In 1599, he married his cousin [[Livia della Rovere]], granddaughter of [[Giulio della Rovere]], with Federico Ubaldo being the product of said marriage.<ref name="Vxxv">{{harvp|Verstegen|2007|p=xxv}}</ref>

At the age of 16 he succeeded to the Duchy of Urbino on 3 November 1621. This same year, in order to produce an heir himself, he married [[Claudia de' Medici]], daughter of [[Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] and [[Christina of Lorraine]]. The following year, Claudia gave birth to a daughter [[Vittoria della Rovere]].<ref>Luciano Ceccarelli, « Non Mai ». Le "imprese" araldiche dei Duchi d’Urbino, gesta e vicende familiari tratte dalla corrispondenza privata, a cura di Giovanni Murano, Cap. VI, Accademia Raffaello, Urbino, 2002, pp.147-177.</ref>

He was to be in the fold of [[enlightened absolutism]] upheld since [[Francesco Maria I della Rovere]].<ref>{{harvp|Verstegen|2007|p=141}}</ref> In 1623, Federico died in Urbino. He was likely poisoned, but autopsy results claim that he died with an [[epileptic seizure]]. The funeral took place on the following Sunday, 2 July, and was accompanied by the whole clergy. The confraternity and 125 high noblemen, all dressed in mourning, with a torch in their hands, the funeral procession went through the city, in front of the whole population of the city of Urbino.<ref>Michaël Gasperoni, La morte di Federico Ubaldo della Rovere nel racconto di un notaio urbinate, [http://www.spess.it/2/attivita-scientifiche/pesaro-citta-e-conta.html Pesaro città e contà], 2011.{{full citation|date=July 2023|reason=Linked is volumes of a journal.}}{{verification needed|date=July 2023}}</ref> His father decided to allow his state to be subsumed into the [[Papal States]].<ref name=Vxxv/> In 1626, Claudia de' Medici married [[Leopold V, Archduke of Austria]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Permanent places for festivals at the Habsburg court in Innsbruck: the 'comedy houses' of 1628 and 1654 |first=Veronika |last=Sandbichler |pages=258 |title=Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe: Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space|editor-first1=J.R. |editor-last1=Mulryne |editor-first2=Krista |editor-last2=De Jonge |editor-first3=Pieter |editor-last3=Martens |editor-first4=R.L.M. |editor-last4=Morris |publisher=Routledge |year=2017}}</ref> Their daughter married the [[Grand Duke of Tuscany]] in 1633 but her bloodline died out in 1743.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

==Issue==
#[[Vittoria della Rovere]] (7 February 1622 – 5 March 1694) married [[Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] and had issue.<ref name=Vxxv/>

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*{{cite book |last1=Verstegen |first1=Ian F. |title=Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy |date=22 February 2007 |publisher=[[Penn State University Press]] |isbn=9780271091105 |edition=eBook |via=[[De Gruyter]]}}

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