Caterina Visconti (died 1382)
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Caterina Visconti (died 1382)
Caterina Visconti was the daughter of Matteo II Visconti and Egidiola Gonzaga. Life Caterina Visconti was the eldest daughter of Matteo and Egidiola (also known as Gigliola). Caterinas paternal grandparents were Stefano Visconti and Valentina Doria and her maternal grandparents were Filippino Gonzaga and Anna Dovara. In 1346,Caterinas great-uncle Luchino Visconti exiled her father to Montferrat, but he was able to return in 1350 after the accession of his uncle Giovanni Visconti. Caterinas father Matteo had since 1354 co-ruled Milan with his brothers, Galeazzo II Visconti and Bernabo Visconti. Matteo passed away in 1355, it being commonly believed that his brothers had conspired to poison him to gain the lordship over Milan. One of the persons accusing the brothers was their own mother Valentina Doria. In 1356, Caterinas grandfather Filippino Gonzaga died. His only living child was Caterinas mother. Egidiolas male cousins who wanted Filippinos lands took them by force, b ...
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Matteo II Visconti
Matteo II Visconti ( – 29 September 1355 in Saronno) was co-ruler of Milan together with his brothers Galeazzo II and Bernabò. Biography Matteo was the eldest son of Stefano Visconti and Valentina Doria. In 1342 he married Egidiola di Filippino of Gonzaga. His uncle Luchino Visconti exiled him to Montferrat in 1346, but in 1350 returned to Milan. As co-ruler of the domain after the death of his uncle Giovanni Visconti (1354), Matteo was given Lodi, Piacenza, Parma and Bologna. He died after a dinner in which, according to his mother and others, he had been poisoned by his brothers. His daughter Caterina was married to Ugolino Gonzaga of Mantua Mantua ( ; ; Lombard language, Lombard and ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region of Lombardy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, eponymous province. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the "Italian Capital of Culture". In 2 .... References Sources * * 1310s births 1355 deaths Matteo II ...
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Egidiola Gonzaga
Gigliola Gonzaga, also called ''Egidiola Gonzaga'' (1325-1377), was lady of Milan by marriage to Matteo II Visconti Matteo II Visconti ( – 29 September 1355 in Saronno) was co-ruler of Milan together with his brothers Galeazzo II and Bernabò. Biography Matteo was the eldest son of Stefano Visconti and Valentina Doria. In 1342 he married Egidiola di Fil ..., lord of Milan, between 1349 and 1355.Giancarlo Malacarne, I Gonzaga di Mantova: una stirpe per una capitale europea, Reggio Emilia, 2004. ISBN non esistente Notes {{Authority control 1325 births 1377 deaths House of Gonzaga 14th-century Italian women People from Mantua Ladies of Milan ...
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Stefano Visconti
Stefano Visconti ( 1287 – 4 July 1327) was a member of the House of Visconti that ruled Milan from the 14th to the 15th century. Life He was the son of Matteo I Visconti. Marriage In 1318 he married Valentina Doria, daughter of Bernabò Doria from Sassello and of Eliena Fieschi, with whom he had three children: * Grandiana (also known as Diana) who married around 1333 Ramon de Vilaragut, Baron of Tripi and Lord of Alcaissia and Sollana, Captain-General and Admiral of the Army of the Kingdom of Sicily ; * Matteo II who married Egidiola Gonzaga * Galeazzo II who married Blanche of Savoy * Bernabò, who shared the rule in Milan after his death and married Beatrice della Scala. The marriage between Valentina and Stefano was to cement an alliance between their fathers wherein the Ghibelline party (of which the Viscontis were members) would aid Valentinas father Bernabo Doria to destroy the Genoese Guelphs. Death Stefano died in the night of July 4, 1327, after a banqu ...
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Doria (family)
The House of Doria ( ) originally ''de Auria'' (from ''de filiis Auriae''), meaning "the sons of Auria", and then ''de Oria'' or ''d'Oria'', is an old and extremely wealthy Genoese family who played a major role in the history of the Republic of Genoa and in Italy, from the 12th century to the 16th century. Numerous members of the dynasty ruled the republic first as Capitano del popolo and later as Doge. Origins According to legend, a noble Genoese lady named Auria or Oria della Volta fell in love with a noble pilgrim who was going to Jerusalem for the First Crusade; his name was Arduino di Narbonne but their children were named after the mother—''de Oria'', the children of Oria. Arduino was a typical name of the Arduinici family of the Piemonte, some of whose members bore the title of Counts of Auriate; one might then speculate that one of the Arduinici of Auriate gave origin to this family, which suddenly appears in history as a local major power in Liguria in the late 1 ...
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Galeazzo II Visconti
Galeazzo II Visconti ( – 4 August 1378) was a member of the Visconti of Milan, Visconti dynasty and a ruler of Milan, Italy. His most notable military campaigns were against Pope Gregory XI, around 1367. These battles fought between the papacy and the Visconti family ultimately ended in a peace treaty. Politically active, he expanded the power of his family, where the Visconti first became hereditary rulers of Milan starting in 1349. He is remembered in conjunction with his patronage of intellectuals and writers, from his sponsorship of Petrarch to the founding of the University of Pavia in 1361. Galeazzo II Visconti, and his brother Bernabò Visconti, Bernabò, are credited with the institution of the Quaresima Torture Protocol, a vicious means of torture. Visconti family The founder of the Visconti house is a conflicted claim, though widespread credit goes to Galeazzo's ancestor, Ottone Visconti. Other notable figures in the Visconti family include Matteo I Visconti, Matt ...
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Bernabò Visconti
Bernabò or Barnabò Visconti (1323 – 19 December 1385) was an Italian soldier and statesman who was Lord of Milan. Along with his brothers Matteo and Galeazzo II, he inherited the lordship of Milan from his uncle Giovanni. Later in 1355, he and Galeazzo II were rumoured to have murdered their brother Matteo since he endangered the regime. When Galeazzo II died, he shared Milan's lordship with his nephew Gian Galeazzo. Bernabò was a ruthless despot toward his subjects and did not hesitate to face emperors and popes, including Pope Urban V. The conflict with the Church caused him several excommunications. On 6 May 1385, his nephew Gian Galeazzo deposed him. Imprisoned in his castle, Trezzo sull'Adda, he died a few months later, presumably from poisoning. Life Bernabò was born in Milan, the son of Stefano Visconti and Valentina (also known as Violante and Valenza) Doria. From his mother he was related to the Dorias and the Fieschis, two of the most powerful families o ...
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Ugolino Gonzaga
Ugolino Gonzaga (1320 – 13 October 1362) was an Italian condottiero, a member of the House of Gonzaga. Biography Born in Mantua, he was the son of Guido Gonzaga, second ''Capitano del Popolo'' of the city, and of Beatrice, Countess of Bari. In 1360 he governed Mantua alongside his father and his brothers Francesco and Ludovico. In 1340 he married Verde della Scala, daughter of Mastino II, but she died two years later; Ugolino then married to Emilia della Gherardesca. After the latter's death in 1349, he remarried to Caterina Visconti, daughter of Matteo II Visconti and niece of Barnabò Visconti. The alliance that this marriage brought with the Visconti lasted until the early 16th century, and saw the Gonzaga warring in Tuscany against the Scaligers in 1342-1343 alongside the Milanese. However, the alliance between the Gonzaga and the Visconti was not liked by the Republic of Venice, which set up a plot leading to Ugolino's assassination in 1362 by his brothers Francesco an ...
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Beatrice Regina Della Scala
Beatrice ''Regina'' della Scala (1331 – 18 June 1384) was Lady of Milan by marriage to Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan, and politically active as the adviser of her spouse. Life Beatrice Regina was the youngest child of Mastino II della Scala and Taddea Carraresi family, da Carrara. She had three older brothers and one sister, as well as five illegitimate half-siblings. Her father, who was a member of the Scaliger family of Northern Italy, was Lord of Verona, Vicenza, Brescia, Parma, and Lucca. Her paternal grandparents were Alboino I della Scala and Beatrice, daughter of Gilberto III da Correggio of Parma, and her maternal grandparents were Jacopo I da Carrara and Anna Gradenigo, daughter of Pietro Gradenigo, Doge of Venice and Morosini Family, Tommasina Morosini. Beatrice’s mother, Taddea, had been married off to Mastino as a way to keep peace between the da Carraras and the della Scala families but this failed thus Beatrice grew up within a milieu of martial conflic ...
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Isabella Fieschi
Isabella Fieschi (''floruit'' 1356), was a lady of Milan by marriage to Luchino Visconti, lord of Milan. Life She was the daughter of the Genuese noble Carlo Fieschi, count of Savignone, while mother was Teodora of Bourbon allegedly a relative of Charles II of Naples. Isabellas other important family connections included being a great-niece (through her father) of the pope Adrian V.Isabella was also a maternal cousin of Beatrice d’Este, the widow of Galeazzo I Visconti and mother of Azzone the ruling lord of Milan. Marriage The marriage was arranged as an alliance between Genoa and Milan, and the ceremony took place in Milan in 1331. Isabellas husband had been married twice before and was also much older than her. While Luchino had no legitimate children he had fathered several illegitimate sons. As Azzone, her husband Luchinos nephew was the lord of Milan, Isabella only became Lady of Milan on her husbands assuming the title after Azzones death in 1339. Isabella was kno ...
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Ludovico II Gonzaga
Ludovico II Gonzaga (1334 – 4 October 1382) was an Italian politician who was capitano del popolo of Mantua. He was a member of the House of Gonzaga. Biography He was the son of Guido Gonzaga and Beatrix of Bar. Together with his brother Francesco, he set a plot against his elder brother Ugolino, who had also been associated with power by their father, killing him on 14 October 1362 during a dinner. Despite the suspicions, Guido pardoned his sons. In 1368 Francesco also died in mysterious circumstances, and Ludovico became the only successor to Guido. When his father died, Ludovico set a policy of friendship with the nearby Milan and their rulers, the House of Visconti. He married Alda, a legitimized daughter of Obizzo III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara. Their son Francesco was married to Agnese, daughter of Bernabò Visconti. He also established trade links with the Republic of Venice The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally know ...
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San Maurizio Al Monastero Maggiore
San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore is a church in Milan, Northern Italy. It was originally attached to the most important female convent of the Benedictines in the city, Monastero Maggiore, which is now in use as the Civic Archaeological Museum. The church today is used every Sunday from October to June to celebrate in the Byzantine Rite, in Greek according to the Italo-Albanian tradition. It is also used as a concert hall. History The complex was founded in Lombard times, partially re-using ancient Roman edifices. Of these, there remain a polygonal tower, a relic of the ancient Maximian walls, and a square one, originally part of the lost Hippodrome and later adopted as the church's bell tower. The monastery is now home to Milan's Archaeological Museum. The Benedictine Monastery is documented starting from the 8th-9th century. The monastery and its church were initially dedicated to Mary. In 964, the emperor Otto I, donated a relic of St. Maurice to the monastery. There w ...
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1382 Deaths
Year 1382 ( MCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 20 – Princess Anne of Bohemia, a daughter of the late Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the Queen Consort of England by marrying King Richard II; the marriage produces no heirs before her death in 1395. * May 12 – Charles of Durazzo executes the imprisoned Joanna I of Naples, and succeeds her as Charles III of Naples. * May 21 – John Wycliffe's teachings are condemned by the Synod of London, which becomes known as the " Earthquake Synod", after its meetings are disrupted by an earthquake. * August – The iconic painting the Black Madonna of Częstochowa is brought from Jerusalem, to the Jasna Góra Monastery in Poland. * September – Following the death of Louis I of Hungary and Poland: ** Louis' daughter Mary is crowned the "King" of Hungary. ** The Poles, who do not wish to be ruled by Mary's fiancee, the fut ...
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