Azzo VIII d'Este ( Italian: Azzo VIII d'Este ; after 1263 - January 31, 1308 ) - ruler of Ferrara since 1293, Modena and Reggio in 1293-1306.
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| Predecessor | Ozzo II | ||||||
| Birth | after 1263 | ||||||
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| Kind | d'este | ||||||
| Father | Ozzo II | ||||||
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Inherited his father - Ozzo II , whom, according to Dante, he himself killed.
He fought with Padua (1293) and Bologna (1295-1299). He was accused of killing Podesta Bologna Jacopo del Cassero.
In 1305, already at an advanced age, he married young Beatrice - the daughter of the Neapolitan King Charles II of Anjou . According to the historian Dino Compagni, for this wedding, Azzo VIII paid his father-in-law a huge sum of 51 thousand florins and agreed to a symbolic dowry.
In 1306, as a result of the uprising, the townspeople lost power over Modena and Reggio .
He bequeathed all his possessions to Folco, the son of his brother Francesco (Fresco), depriving other brothers and nephews of their inheritance. This was the cause of the First Ferrara War (1308-1309) [2] .
Notes
Sources
- Giovan Battista di Crollalanza, Goffredo di Crollalanza ed Aldo di Crollalanza (1879), Annuario della nobiltà italiana, Presso la direzione del Giornale araldico, I, p. 505.
- Trevor Dean, Land and Power in Late Medieval Ferrara: The Rule of the Este, 1350-1450. (Cambridge University Press) 1987.
- Miroslav Marek, “Complete Genealogy of the House of d'Este” , Genealogy.EU
- Charles Cawley, Azzo VIII Medieval Lands , fmg.ac
- Vittorio Sermonti, Inferno , Rizzoli 2001.
- Umberto Bosco e Giovanni Reggio, La Divina Commedia - Inferno , Le Monnier 1988.