Alessandro Sforza (Condottiere)
Alessandro Sforza (born October 29, 1409 in Cotignola , † April 3, 1473 in Torre della Fossa, Ferrara ) was the city lord of Pesaro.
Life
He was the middle of the three illegitimate sons of Muzio Attendolo Sforza from his relationship with Lucia Terziani. He was first baptized Gregorio, but was then renamed in honor of Pope Alexander V. His older brother was Francesco I Sforza , Duke of Milan since 1450 , his younger Bosio Sforza , Count of San Fiora. He was a condottiere in the service of the Church, in the service of his brother Francesco and in the service of the King of Naples. He was ecclesiastical vicar of Ancona from 1434 and governor of Assisi from 1439. From 1445 he was ecclesiastical vicar and lord of Pesaro. He was also Duke of Sora, where he immediately lost the fief. Furthermore, he was lord of Gradara and Castelnuova from 1463. He also became lieutenant of the Kingdom of Naples in 1463.
His first marriage was on December 8, 1444, Costanza da Varano (* around 1428 in Camerino; † July 31, 1447 in Pesaro), daughter of Pietro Gentile da Varano, papal vicar of Camerino, and Elisabetta Malatesta. His second marriage was on January 9, 1448 with Sveva di Montefeltro (* 1434 in Urbino; † September 8, 1478 in Pesaro), daughter of Count Guidantonio da Montefeltro of Urbino and Caterina Colonna, half-sister of Federico da Montefeltro . Sveva separated from her husband and in 1457 went to the Santa Chiara Monastery, where she became abbess in 1475.
Alessandro Sforza's children from his first marriage were Battista Sforza (* around 1446 in Pesaro; † July 6, 1472), who became the second wife of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino on February 10, 1460, and Costanzo I. Sforza (* on July 5, 1447 in Pesaro; † July 19, 1483 in Pesaro), who inherited the rule of Pesaro after his death and finally was ecclesiastical vicar and lord of Pesaro from 1473. In 1475 he married Camilla (Covella) von Marzano, daughter of Giovanni Francesco Mariano, Duke of Sessa, and Eleonora d'Aragona. She died in 1490 in what is now Germany and was regent from 1483 to 1489 for Giovanni Sforza , the illegitimate son of Constanzo from his relationship with Fiora Boni. He was ecclesiastical vicar and lord of Pesaro from 1483 to 1500 and from 1503 to 1510. Giovanni married Lucrezia Borgia for the second time in 1493 , and the marriage was divorced in 1497. Another illegitimate child from his relationship with Fiora Boni was Galeazzo I (* around 1470 in Pesaro, † April 14, 1515 in Milan), Lord of Pesaro from July 5, 1512 to October 2, 1512 and Governor of Cremona since Year 1513. He married in 1508 Ginevra Bentivoglio (* around 1492 in Bologna, † February 20, 1472 in Milan), daughter of Ercole, Lord of Bologna, and of Barbara Torelli. Carlo and Ercole were natural descendants of Constanzo who died after 1475 and of whom little has historically been passed down.
Natural and legitimate children of Alessandro Sforza were Ginevra (* around 1440 in Ancona; † July 16, 1503 in Bologna) and Antonia († around 1500 in Brescia). Ginevra was married to Sante I. Bentivoglio, lord of Bologna, in 1454 in Bologna, in the year of his first marriage, and married Giovanni II Bentivoglio, lord of Bologna, in his second marriage in 1464 in Bologna. Antonia married Count Martinengo Ottaviano in 1460.
literature
- Klaus Schelle: The Sforza. Stuttgart 1980 ISBN 3-512-00577-2 .
- Edoardo Rossetti: Sforza, Alessandro. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 92: Semino – Sisto IV. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2018.
- Giovanni Battista Picotti: SFORZA, Alessandro, signore di Pesaro . In: Enciclopedia Italiana , Rome 1936.
Web links
- Sforza, Alessandro, signore di Pesaro. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
- Sforza. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved December 21, 2019. Treated the family
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sforza, Alessandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lord of Pesaro |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1409 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cotignola |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1473 |
| Place of death | Torre della Fossa, Ferrara |