Guidantonio da Montefeltro (1377 – February 1443) was count of Urbino in Italy from 1403 until his death. In 1403, at the death of his father

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, Guidantonio inherited the family lands in the region of Italy called the

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. Later he abandoned the Papal suzerainty and allied with King

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, who made him ''Gran conestabile'' of the

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in 1411. Excommunicated by

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, he took advantage of that move to conquer

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. He also controlled Castello,

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, and

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.* Guidantonio later reconciled with

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and with his enemy, the condottiero Braccio da Montone. In 1427 he occupied

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. He died in 1443, his son Oddantonio succeeding him in Urbino.

Family and children

He married Ringarda Malatesta in 1397, but the two had no children. Guidantonio remarried with Caterina Colonna, who bore him 9 children. Apart from Oddantonio, his most famous son was the legitimated

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, who was Duke of Urbino, as well as a condottiero and one of the most famous patron of arts in the

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. His daughter Sveva (1434–1478) married

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, lord of

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