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  1. Ferdinand I (2 June 1424 – 25 January 1494), also known as Ferrante, [1] was king of Naples from 1458 to 1494. The only son, albeit illegitimate, of Alfonso the Magnanimous, he was one of the most influential and feared monarchs in Europe at the time and an important figure of the Italian Renaissance. In his thirty years of reign he brought ...

  2. Ferdinand I (born 1423, Valencia, Spain—died Jan. 25, 1494) was the king of Naples from 1458. He was the illegitimate son of Alfonso V of Aragon, who, after establishing himself as king of Naples in 1442, had Ferdinand legitimized and recognized as his heir. Succeeding Alfonso in 1458, Ferdinand was soon faced with a baronial revolt in favour ...

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  3. Ferdinand I (born Jan. 2/12, 1751, Naples—died Jan. 4, 1825, Naples) was the king of the Two Sicilies (1816–25) who earlier (1759–1806), as Ferdinand IV of Naples, led his kingdom in its fight against the French Revolution and its liberal ideas. A relatively weak and somewhat inept ruler, he was greatly influenced by his wife, Maria ...

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  5. Ferdinand I (12 January 1751 – 4 January 1825) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1816 until his death. Before that he had been, since 1759, King of Naples as Ferdinand IV and King of Sicily as Ferdinand III. He was deposed twice from the throne of Naples: once by the revolutionary Parthenopean Republic for six months in 1799, and again by a ...

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    6 June 1772
    13 April 1807
    Named after her maternal grandmother, ...
    Royal Palace of Naples, 27 July 1773
    Hofburg Imperial Palace, 19 September ...
    Married her first cousin Ferdinand III, ...
    Naples, 6 January 1775
    17 December 1778
    Died of smallpox.
    23 November 1775
    22 February 1780
    Died of smallpox.
  6. Ferdinand I of Naples (1423 – 1494) King of Naples. Also known as Ferrante, Ferdinand was born in Valencia, Spain, as the illegitimate son of Alfonso V the Magnanimous, the king of Aragon who also ruled in Naples. As a youth Ferdinand was recognized as the Duke of Calabria, the customary title for the successor to the throne of Naples.

  7. Ferdinand, Duke of Montalto (ill.) The only son, albeit illegitimate, of Alfonso the Magnanimous, he was one of the most influential and feared monarchs in Europe at the time and an important figure of the Italian Renaissance. In his thirty years of reign he brought peace and prosperity to Naples.

  8. For more than thirty years, Ferdinand I held the throne of Naples, both feared as an oppressive tyrant but admired for his cunning mind and courage on the ba...

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