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Filippo Maria Visconti (3 September 1392 – 13 August 1447) was duke of Milan from 1412 to 1447. Known to be cruel and paranoid, but shrewd as a ruler, he went to war in the 1420s with Romagna, Florence and Venice in the Wars in Lombardy, but was eventually forced to accept peace under Pope Martin V. He would return to the offensive again ...
Filippo Maria was born in Milan on September 23, 1392 as the youngest son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351-1402) and Caterina Visconti (±1360-1404, to the right ). His parents were first cousins; Caterina was a daughter of Gian Galeazzo’s uncle Barnabo Visconti (±1323-1385). The marriage had united the Visconti lands.
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Filippo Maria Visconti (3 September 1392 – 13 August 1447) was duke of Milan from 1412 to 1447. Known to be cruel and paranoid, but shrewd as a ruler, he went to war in the 1420s with Romagna, Florence and Venice in the Wars in Lombardy, but was eventually forced to accept peace under Pope Martin V.
Filippo Maria Visconti (1721–1801) was the Archbishop of Milan from 1784 to 1801. Early life. Filippo Maria Visconti was born on 19 August 1721 in Massino Visconti, a village near Lake Maggiore which was the original land tenure of the House of Visconti, a main noble family of the Duchy of Milan and to which Filippo Maria belonged.
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Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan. Mother. Agnese del Maino. Bianca Maria Visconti (31 March 1425 – 28 October 1468) also known as Bianca Maria Sforza or Blanca Maria was Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468 by marriage to Francesco I Sforza. She was regent of Marche during the absence of her spouse in 1448.
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Other articles where Filippo Maria Visconti is discussed: Visconti Family: His brother Filippo Maria (1392–1447), succeeding to the dukedom, managed, by marriage to the widow of the condottiere (mercenary captain) Facino Cane, to gain control of Cane’s troops and territories and gradually reconstructed the Visconti dominions. A neurotic recluse beset by bad health, Filippo Maria ...
Overview. Filippo Maria Visconti. (1392—1447) Quick Reference. (1392–1447), Third duke of Milan. He became nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, and succeeded his brother Giovanni Maria, the second duke, in 1412. The cruelty that he shared with ... From: Visconti, Filippo Maria in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance »
