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Ferrante II Gonzaga (1563 – 5 August 1630) was count and, from 1621, duke of Guastalla . He was the son of Cesare I Gonzaga, count of Guastalla and duke of Amalfi, and Donna Camilla Borromeo. 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.
He was born in Mantua, the third son of Francesco II Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este. At the age of sixteen, he was sent to the court of Spain as a page to the future emperor Charles V, to whom Ferrante remained faithful for his whole life. In 1527 he took part in the Sack of Rome and attended Charles' triumphant coronation at Bologna in 1530: at ...
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Figlio di Cesare I Gonzaga e di Camilla Borromeo, «nel 1598 fu a Ferrara all’arrivo di Clemente VIII, quando il pontefice prese possesso del ducato. Trovarsi in quella città in quel momento era funzionale a partecipare al matrimonio di Margherita d’Austria con Filippo III, che vi fu celebrato dal papa. Entrò poi a far parte della corte della nuova ...
Ferrante II si sposò, nel 1587, con Vittoria Doria (1569-1618), figlia dell'ammiraglio Gianandrea Doria, con la quale ebbe numerosi figli: 1. Zenobia Gonzaga (1588-1618), sposò Giovanni III d'Aragona Tagliavia; 2. Cesare II Gonzaga (†; 1632), duca di Guastalla ∞ Isabella Orsini; 3. Vittoria Gonzaga, monaca a Parma; 4. Isabella Gonzaga, monaca a Gua...
Ferrante II, su sapere.it, De Agostini.Raffaele Tamalio, GONZAGA, Ferrante, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 57, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2001.Ferrante III Gonzaga (1618 – 1678) Duke of Guastalla, Prince of Molfetta. Knight of the Order of Santiago. Married Margherita (1619 – 1692) daughter of Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena. He died without male heirs, the Duchy of Guastalla became officially a part of the Duchy of Milan ruled by Charles IV of Gonzaga-Nevers (1652 – 1708 ...
The Pope having by this time come to terms with the Holy Roman Emperor had sought Charles’s help in regaining Florence. It was in 1531 that Ferrante became a Knight of the Duke of Burgundy’s Order of the Golden Fleece. He later fought for Charles V, commanding 3,000 cavalry against the Turks led by the corsair and general Barbarosa at Tunis ...
He was born in Mantua, the third son of Francesco II Gonzaga and Isabella d'Este. At the age of sixteen, he was sent to the court of Spain as a page to the future emperor Charles V, to whom Ferrante remained faithful for his whole life. In 1527 he took part in the Sack of Rome and attended Charles' triumphant coronation at Bologna in 1530: at ...
Biography. Third son of Francesco II Gonzaga (q.v.) and his wife Isabella d'Este (q.v.). Duke of Ariano from 1532, count of Guastalla from 1539. He was viceroy of Sicily from 1535 until 1546 and governor of Milan from 1546 until March 1555. Married Isabella of Capua in c. 1530.
