Ferrante II Gonzaga
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He was the son of Cesare I Gonzaga, count of Guastalla and duke of Amalfi, and Donna Camilla Borromeo.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He succeeded his father in 1575. On 2 July 1621, the County of Guastalla was elevated to a duchy and Ferrante was subsequently deemed a duke.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
In 1624 Emperor Ferdinand II appointed Ferrante as general commissar in Italy to reinforce imperial authority.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Ferrante played a part in the War of the Mantuan Succession when, as a distant Gonzaga cousin, he claimed the Duchy of Mantua after the extinction of the senior male branch of the House of Gonzaga in December 1627. He was nominally supported by Emperor Ferdinand II,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". who really sought to re-attach the Duchy of Mantua to the Holy Roman Empire. His attempt failed as the French candidate Charles of Nevers became the new duke. Ferrante died of the plague on 6 August 1630.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Marriage & issue
Ferrante II married Vittoria Doria (1569–1618), daughter of Giovanni Andrea Doria,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and had:
- Cesare II Gonzaga (1592–1632), next Duke of Guastalla, married Donna Isabella OrsiniScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Vincenzo Gonzaga (1602–1697), Viceroy of Sicily (1677–1678)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Andrea Gonzaga, Count of San Paolo (died 1686), father of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (1692–1714)Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Zenobia de Gonzaga y Doria (1588–1618), married in 1607 don Giovanni Tagliavia d'Aragona, Duke of Terranova.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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