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1351-1402. Biography. Son of Galeazzo II Visconti (q.v.) and his wife Bianca of Savoy. He succeeded his father as Lord of Milan and, when the city was raised to a duchy in 1395, became the first Duke. He founded the Certosa at Pavia. His first wife was Isabelle of Valois; his second, whom he married in 1380, was his cousin Caterina Visconti.
Oct 16, 1351 - Sep 3, 1402. Gian Galeazzo Visconti, was the first duke of Milan and ruled the late-medieval city just before the dawn of the Renaissance. He was the founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan. Gian Galeazzo Visconti, was the first ...
Mar 20, 2024 · The House of Visconti had ruled Milan since 1277, in which year Ottone Visconti defeated Napoleone della Torre. The Duchy of Milan (Ducatus Mediolani) was created as a state of the Holy Roman Empire on 1 May 1395, when Gian Galeazzo Visconti purchased a diploma for 100,000 Florins from King Wenceslaus. [6] It was this diploma that installed ...
Nov 6, 2022 · The relations between Gian Galeazzo and the top management factory became tense as the construction continued. The Duke of Milan intended to transform the cathedral into the dynastic mausoleum of the Visconti. He inserted the central part of the cathedral funeral monument of his father which he met strong opposition to.
Jun 9, 2011 · Preface List of abbreviations 1. Italy in the fourteenth century. The growth of the Visconti state 2. Giangaleazzo's early years: the Count of Vertus in Piedmontese politics (1378-85) 3. Giangaleazzo and Bernabo: the hermit of Pavia (1378-85) 4. Northern Italy and the fall of Bernabo (1385). The new Lord of Milan 5. The Visconti state: the government of Lomardy and Giangaleazzo's ...
However, relations between Gian Galeazzo and the top management of the factory (chosen by the citizens of Milan) were often tense: the lord (who in 1395 had become Duke of Milan) intended to transform the cathedral into the dynastic mausoleum of the Visconti, inserting the central part of the cathedral funeral monument of his father Galeazzo II ...
his son Giovanni Maria the Cruel, born on 9. September 1388, Duke of Milan 1402-1412, since 1408 married to Antonia Malatesta; he was fatally stabbed on 16. May 1412 – his cruelty and his bloodthirstyness exceeded everything the House of Visconti had experienced so far. his son Filippo Maria, born on 23. September 1392, deceased on 13.