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Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara: Last monarch: Francis V, Duke of Modena: Formation: 1452: Abolition: 1859: Pretender(s) Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
Alfonso II d'Este (22 November 1533 – 27 October 1597) was Duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. He was a member of the House of Este . Biography. Alfonso was the elder son of Ercole II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany and was the fifth and last Duke of Ferrara. [1]
Son of Ercole II and Renée of France, Alfonso II was the fifth and last Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, from 1559 to 1597. Born: 28 November 1533. Die: 27 October 1597.
Borso d'Este, already Duke of Modena and Reggio, and lord of Ferrara, was raised to Duke of Ferrara by Pope Paul II. Borso and his successors ruled Ferrara as a quasi-sovereign state until 1597, when it came under direct papal rule. [2] Background. Ferrara, walled and moated, ca 1600. The origin of Ferrara is uncertain.
Members of the family ruled in Ferrara from the 13th through the 16th century and in Modena and Reggio from the later Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Origins.
- Luciano Chiappini
The Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Alfonso II d’Este (1533–1597) first fought on Henry’s II of France side against Emperor Charles V. for the dioceses of Lorraine. In 1565 he married Barbara, a sister of Emperor Maximilian II. As his lieutenant general he fought against the Ottomans in 1596.
Alfonso I (born July 21, 1476, Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara—died Oct. 31, 1534, Ferrara) was the duke of Ferrara from 1505, a noted Renaissance prince of the House of Este, an engineer and patron of the arts. Alfonso succeeded to the duchy at the death of his father, Ercole I.
