4. House of Medici
The illustrious House of Medici is another whose numbers get a little fuzzy depending on who you ask. What’s known, though, is that the banking family which rose to prominence under patriarch Cosimo de Medici in the late 14th century gained so much material wealth that they were able to basically fund a big chunk of the Renaissance, they made puppets of the ruling class in Florence, and they produced four Popes over the course of their run.
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