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Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga (1395 – 23 September 1444) was Captain of the People from 1407 to 1433 and Marquis of Mantua from 1433 to 1444. He was also a condottiere. Biography. Gianfrancesco was the son of Francesco I Gonzaga and Margherita Malatesta. He inherited the rule of Mantua in 1407, when he was 12.
The Marquisate of Mantua began with Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga who, with the payment of 12,000 gold florins, in 1433 was appointed first marquis by the Emperor Sigismund, of whom he had married his niece Barbara of Brandenburg with his eldest son, Ludovico III Gonzaga.
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Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga (1395 – 23 September 1444) was Captain of the People from 1407 to 1433 and Marquis of Mantua from 1433 to 1444. He was also a condottiere.
Gianfrancesco was the son of Francesco I Gonzaga and Margherita Malatesta. He inherited the rule of Mantua in 1407, when he was 12. In his first years, he was under the patronage of his uncle Carlo Malatesta and, indirectly, of the Republic of Venice. In 1409 he married Paola Malatesta, daughter of Malatesta IV Malatesta of Pesaro, by whom he had two sons, Ludovico, who succeeded him as marquis of Mantua, and Carlo. He was the first Gonzaga to bear the title of marquis, which he obtained from Emperor Sigismund on 22 September 1433.
He fought for the Papal States and the Malatestas in 1412 and 1417, respectively, and was capitano generale (commander-in-chief) of the Venetian Armies from 1434. Later he left the alliance with Venice and entered at the service of the Visconti of Milan, starting an unsuccessful war against Venice which caused the loss of several Mantuan territories.
1.GONZAGA, CECILIA, Women in the Middle Ages, Greenwoods Press 2004, p. 372
2.Brinton, Selwyn. The Gonzaga - Lords of Mantua. London: Methuen & Co. LTD., 1927. pg. 65
Ludovico III Gonzaga of Mantua, known as the Turk ( Italian: il Turco ), [1] also spelled Lodovico (also Ludovico II; 5 June 1412 – 12 June 1478) was the ruler of the Italian city of Mantua from 1444 to his death in 1478. [2] Biography. Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga.
Apr 11, 2024 · Overview. Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga. (1395—1444) Quick Reference. (1395–1444), signore (captain-general) of Mantua (from 1407) and marquis of Mantua (from 1433), the son of Francesco I Gonzaga, whom he formally succeeded in 1407 under the regency of his ... From: Gonzaga, Gianfrancesco I in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance »
Mar 7, 2018 · Gianfrancesco Gonzaga inherited the rule of Mantua at the age of 12 in 1407.
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Gian Francesco Gonzaga, created Marquis in 1433, had been the first great princely patron in Mantua; his son Ludovico, educated in the court school of Vittorino da Feltre, and of the same remarkable generation as Guarino’s pupil Leonello d’Este of Ferrara and Federigo of Urbino, was outstanding for his interest in humanist learning and the arts.
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