Visconti, Agnessa ( Italian: Agnese Visconti ; 1363 , Milan - February 7, 1391 , Mantova ) - daughter of the ruler of Milan Bernabo of the Visconti family, wife of the national captain Mantua Francesco I of the Gonzaga clan. Was executed for adultery [2] .
| Agnessa Visconti | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Alda d'Este | ||||||
| Successor | Margarita Malatesta | ||||||
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| Kind | Visconti | ||||||
| Father | Bernabo Visconti | ||||||
| Mother | Beatrice Regina della Sculla | ||||||
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| Children | * Alda Gonzaga (? - July 30, 1405 ) | ||||||
Biography
Agnessa Visconti was the daughter of Bernabo Visconti and Beatrice Regina of the Scull case , she was the ninth child out of seventeen children born in this family. Agnes and the rest of her sisters were provided with parents by politically advantageous marriages. For example, her sister Taddea Visconti married Stephen III , Duke of Bavaria , and was the mother of Isabella of Bavaria , Queen of France [3] ; another sister, Verde Visconti , married the Duke of Austria, Leopold III of Habsburg [4] [5] .
Bernabo Visconti gave a rich dowry to Agnes, it included: 50,000 kroons of gold and the cities of Parma , Cremona , Brescia and Bergamo . In 1375, Agnes Visconti married Francesco I Gonzaga, people's captain of Mantua . This marriage was made for reconciliation between Milan and Mantua [6] .
In May 1385, Gian Galeazzo Visconti deposed Agnes's father, after which he died in prison. After that, Agnes was accused of adultery with one of her bodyguards, although some sources point to the political subtext of this case and connect it with the collapse of the union of Milan and Mantua [2] . On February 7, 1391, Agnes Visconti was beheaded, and her alleged lover, Antonio di Sandiano, was hanged in the courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale [6] [7] , where there is a commemorative sign of his death [6] . Two years after the death of Agnes Visconti, her husband Francesco I Gonzaga married a second time to Margarita Malatesta , thereby cementing an alliance with Rimini against Visconti [2] .
Family and Children
Husband of Francesco I Gonzaga (1366 - 1407).
Children:
- Alda Gonzaga (? - July 30, 1405 ) who married the ruler of Padua Francisco II Novello di Carrara [8] .
See also
- Gonzaga
- List of spouses of the rulers of Mantua and Monferrato
Notes
- ↑ enciclopedia delle donne
- ↑ 1 2 3 istituto superiore fermi. Francesco I (inaccessible link) . www.itis.mn.it. Date of treatment March 30, 2016. Archived on September 27, 2007.
- ↑ Christian Bouyer, Dictionnaire des Reines de France, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1992 ISBN 2-262-00789-6 . .
- ↑ Lexikon der Geschichte. Gütersloh / München 1998, ISBN 3-572-01285-6 . .
- ↑ Jiri Louda et Michael MacLagan, Les Dynasties d'Europe, Bordas, 1995 ISBN 2-04-027115-5 . .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Chi era Costui - Scheda di Agnese Visconti . www.chieracostui.com. Date of treatment March 30, 2016.
- ↑ MILAN . fmg.ac. Date of treatment March 30, 2016.
- ↑ Gonzaga 2 . www.genealogy.euweb.cz. Date of treatment March 30, 2016.
Literature
- Adelaide Murgia, I Gonzaga , Milano, Mondadori, 1972. (ISBN non esistente)
- Charles Cawley: "Medieval Lands" "Lords of Milan (Visconti): AGNESE Visconti , Medieval Lands". Medieval Lands Project. Hereford, England: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Retrieved November 30, 2010.