The governor of Milan ruled the Duchy of Milan as the representative of the monarch of Spain (1535–1706) and Austria (1706–1796, 1799–1800).
The first governor of Milan was appointed after the death of Francesco II Sforza , the last duke of Milan.
Content
Spanish Board
- 1535–1536: General Antonio de Leyva , Duke of the New Lands
- 1536-1538: Cardinal Marino Caracciolo
- 1538–1546: General Alfonso d'Avalos
- 1546-1555: Ferrante Gonzaga
- 1555–1556: Fernando Alvarez de Toledo
- 1556–1557: Cristoforo Madruzzo
- 1558-1560: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (first term)
- 1560–1563: Francesco Ferdinando d'Avalos d'Akino
- 1563-1564: Gonzalo Fernandez de Córdoba (second term)
- 1564–1571: Gabriel de la Cueva and Chiron
- 1571–1572: Alvaro de Sande
- 1572–1573: Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens
- 1573-1580: Antonio de Guzmán
- 1580–1583: Sanko de Guevara i Padilla
- 1583–1592: Carlo d'Aragon Tallavia
- 1592-1595: Juan Fernandez de Velasco (first term)
- 1595–1595: Don Pedro de Padilla
- 1595–1600: Juan Fernandez de Velasco (second term)
- 1600—1610: Pedro Enrique de Acevedo
- 1610–1612: Juan Fernandez de Velasco (second term)
- 1612-1616: Juan de Mendoza
- 1616–1618: Pedro Alvarez de Toledo
- 1618-1625: Gomez Suárez de Figueroa (first term)
- 1625–1629: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
- 1629–1630: Ambrosio Spinola
- 1630–1631: Alvaro de Bazan
- 1631-1633: Gomez Suárez de Figueroa (second term)
- 1633-1634: Ferdinand of Austria
- 1634–1635: Cardinal Gil de Albomos
- 1635-1636: Diego Philippe de Guzmán (first term)
- 1636-1636: Fernando Henriquez d'Affane
- 1636–1641: Diego Philippe de Guzmán (first term)
- 1641—1643: Juan de Velasco
- 1643—1646: Antonio Sanko Davilo
- 1646–1648: Bernardino Fernandez de Velasco
- 1648-1566: Luis de Benavides Carrillo
- 1656-1656: Cardinal Teodoro Trivoulzio
- 1656—1660: Alfonso Perez de Vivero
- 1660—1662: Francesco Gaetani
- 1662—1668: Luis de Guzmán Ponke de Leon
- 1668–1668: Paolo Spinola (first term)
- 1668–1668: Francisco de Orozco
- 1669–1670: Paolo Spinola (second term)
- 1670—1674: Gaspard Telles-Chiron
- 1674–1678: Prince Claude-Lamoral I de Lin
- 1678—1686: Juan Thomas Enriquez de Cabrera
- 1686–1691: Antonio Lopez de Ayala Velasco-i-Cardenas
- 1691-1698: Diego Philippe de Guzmán
- 1698-1706: Karl Heinrich of Lorraine
On September 26, 1706, Milan was taken by the Austrian army during the War of the Spanish Succession . The dominion of Austria over Milan was confirmed by the Utrecht peace treaty .
Austrian government
- 1706-1716: Prince Eugene of Savoy
- 1717-1719: Prince Maximilian Karl Lowenstein-Vergeim
- 1719-1725: Count Girolamo Colloredo
- 1725—1734: Earl Viri Philip von Down
- 1734-1736: Sardinian occupation
- 1736-1743: Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Thrawn
- 1743-1745: Prince Johann Georg Christian von Lobkowitz
- 1745-1746: Spanish occupation
- 1745-1747: Gian Luca Pallavicini
- 1747-1750: Count Ferdinand Bonaventure von Harrach
- 1750-1754: Can Luca Pallavicini
- 1754-1771: Francesco III d'Este (administrator)
- 1754-1765: Peter Leopold (titular)
- 1765-1771: Ferdinand of Austria (titular)
- 1771-1796: Ferdinand of Austria
Austrian rulers during the Napoleonic Wars
- 1799–1800: Count Luigi Cocastelli
Austrian viceroy of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom
- 1814-1815: Prince Henry XV Reiss zu Plauen
- 1815-1816: Heinrich Joseph Johann von Bellegard
- 1816–1818: Archduke Anton Victor of Habsburg-Lorraine
- 1818–1848: Archduke Rainer Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine
- 1848-1857: Joseph Radetzky
- 1857-1859: Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph von Habsburg