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Francesco's coat of arms encircled with the garter. Francesco I Sforza KG ( Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko ˈpriːmo ˈsfɔrtsa]; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
Duke of Milan. Arms of Francesco I Sforza. Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Or an eagle stand Sable, wearing a crown; 2nd and 3rd, Argent a serpent ripple Azure, wearing a crown, eating a moor Gules. Creation date. 5 September 1395. Created by. Wenceslaus, King of the Romans. First holder. Gian Galeazzo Visconti.
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The 1422 Battle of Arbedo for control over Bellinzona. The duchy was officially established on 11 May 1395, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the Dominus Generalis of Milan, obtained the title of Duke of Milan by means of a diploma signed in Prague by Wenceslaus of Bohemia. The nomination was ratified and celebrated in Milan on 5 September 1395.
While Sforza was recognized as duke of Milan, his son Ludovico would be the first to have formal investiture under the Holy Roman Empire by Maximilian I in 1494. Francesco I Sforza was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
Sforza Family, Italian family, first named Attendoli, that produced two famous soldiers of fortune and founded a dynasty that ruled Milan for almost a century. Document in which Francesco Sforza, duke of Milan, granted commercial rights to Giovanni Merlo and his descendants, September 7, 1452; it allowed them to buy and sell goods in Milan.
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Giangaleazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan. Civil war was always the bane of the Italian city-states. E.R. Chamberlain describes how, at the end of the fourteenth century, it seemed that the whole peninsula might soon be re-united under a single man's control. Some four hundred years before the birth of Garibaldi, the dream of Italian unity seemed on ...
The Sforza Dukes of Milan. The Sforza family began to reign the Duchy of Milan, substituting the Visconti family, in 1450 with Francesco Sforza (1401-1466). Already in 1425 the Duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti called Francesco to his service but it was not until 1431 that he had the fortune of having him stably at his service promising to ...
