Giulio della Rovere

{{Short description|Italian Cardinal}}

{{distinguish|text=Giuliano della Rovere, who became Pope Julius II}}

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| honorific_prefix = His Eminence

| name = Giulio della Rovere

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| title = Metropolitan Archbishop of Ravenna

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| caption = Portrait of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere.

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| church = Catholic Church

| archdiocese = Ravenna

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| elected = 6 March 1566

| term_end = 3 September 1578

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| predecessor = Ranuccio Farnese

| successor = Cristoforo Boncampagni

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| consecration = 15 April 1566

| consecrated_by = Alessandro Farnese

| cardinal = 27 July 1547

| created_cardinal_by = Paul III

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| birth_place = Urbino, Papal States

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| death_place = Fossombrone, Papal States

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| consecrated by = Alessandro Farnese

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| date of consecration = 15 April 1566

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| date of elevation = 27 July 1547

| bishop 1 = {{Interlanguage link|Giovanni Oliva|it}}

| consecration date 1 = 25 January 1568

| bishop 2 = Alessandro Mazza

| consecration date 2 = 1569

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Giulio della Rovere, also known as Giulio Feltrio della Rovere (5 April 1533 – 3 September 1578) was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and a member of the della Rovere family.

Della Rovere was the second son of Francesco Maria I della Rovere and Eleonora GonzagaIan Verstegen, Patronage and dynasty: the rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy (Truman State University Press, 2007) {{page number needed|date=July 2023}} and the younger brother of Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino.

Della Rovere was elevated to cardinal in 1548 at the age of 13.George L. Williams, Papal Genealogy: The Families And Descendants Of The Popes (McFarland, 2004), {{page number needed|date=July 2023}}.

He had two illegitimate sons: IppolitoIppolito's daughter Lucrezia della Rovere married Marcantonio Lante (1566 - 1643) and had issue including Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere. and Giuliano. Both were later legitimised, as were their children, by Pope Pius V in 1572. Ippolito was made Marchese di San Lorenzo.