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Caterina Sforza was born in Milan in 1463. [5] She was one of the illegitimate children of Galeazzo Maria Sforza and his mistress Lucrezia Landriani [a] who was wife to Count Gian Piero Landriani. The Count was a courtier of the Milanese ducal court and a close friend to Galeazzo.
Giovanni was an illegitimate son of Costanzo I Sforza and a Sforza of the second rank. He married Lucrezia on 12 June 1493 in Rome. Before long, the Borgia family no longer needed the Sforzas, and the presence of Giovanni Sforza in the papal court was superfluous.
Mar 15, 2019 · In 1497, at age 34, Caterina obtained permission from her uncle, Duke Ludovico Sforza, to marry Giovanni de’ Medici, a member of the powerful Florentine family.
May 24, 2024 · Her mother was Lucrezia Landriani, Galeazzo’s mistress. Caterina Sforza was well educated. She was also trained in fighting, horseback riding, and hunting, which was unusual for a noblewoman of her time. In 1477 she wed Girolamo Riario (1443–88), the nephew of Pope Sixtus IV (1414–84), in an arranged marriage.
Her new husband was Giovanni de’ Medici, a member of the powerful Medici family of Florence. She gave birth to their son Giovanni Dalle Bande Nere, who was mentioned as the only child of hers to inherit her ferocious personality and her expertise in warfare.
Aug 24, 2021 · Caterina Sforza (b. 1462/63–d. 1509) was the daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (b. 1444–d. 1476), duke of Milan (r. 1467–1476), and his mistress Lucrezia Landriani (b. 1440/45–d. 1507). In 1477, she married Girolamo Riario (b. 1443–d. 1488), nephew of Pope Sixtus IV and ruler of Imola since 1473.
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Medici family, Italian bourgeois family that ruled Florence and, later, Tuscany during most of the period from 1434 to 1737, except for two brief intervals. It provided the Roman Catholic Church with four popes (Leo X, Clement VII, Pius IV, and Leon XI) and married into the royal families of Europe.
