Barbara Gonzaga

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Barbara Gonzaga. Detail from: Andrea Mantegna's fresco The Court of Mantua (1471–1474, Camera degli Sposi, Ducal Palace , Mantua)

Barbara Gonzaga (born December 11, 1455 in Mantua , † May 31, 1503 in Boeblingen ) was the first Duchess of Württemberg and Teck by marriage .

Life

Barbara Gonzaga was the daughter of Margrave Ludovico III. Gonzaga von Mantua and his wife Barbara von Brandenburg .

Like her eldest brother, Federico I. Gonzaga , Barbara, whose mother was German, received a German spouse. She married on April 12, 1474 in the cathedral of Mantua Eberhard im Bart , Count of Württemberg-Urach, who was made Duke of Württemberg and Teck in 1495. In July she exchanged the cosmopolitan Mantua with the small count residence in Urach Castle . There, the small town with its medieval half-timbered houses was fundamentally redesigned by numerous new buildings such as the new building of the St. Amandus collegiate church or the hospital.

Throughout her life she longed for her home and her family; the hope of a return, however, was not fulfilled even after the death of her husband in 1496. Their only daughter, born in 1475, had died in infancy. Because of Barbara and her not inconsiderable influence on her husband, humanism and the culture of the Renaissance stopped in Württemberg. Eberhard, inspired by his wife, developed into a great admirer of Italy. She enjoyed staying in Waldenbuch and the Waldenbuch Castle there .

Barbara was buried in the Dominican convent in Kirchheim unter Teck . Her remains were lost during demolition work in 1537.

The Barbara Gonzaga Community School in Bad Urach , which opened in the 2012/2013 school year, was named after her .

Her brother Rodolfo Gonzaga († 1495), Lord of Castiglione and Solferino, was the great-grandfather of St. Aloisius of Gonzaga .

literature

  • Joachim Fischer, Peter Amelung, Wolfgang Irtenkauf : Württemberg in the late Middle Ages . Exhibition by the Stuttgart State Archives and the Württemberg State Library. Main State Archives, Stuttgart 1985.
  • Gerhard Raff : Hie gut Wirtemberg allewege , Volume 1: The House of Württemberg from Count Ulrich the founder to Duke Ludwig , 6th edition. Landhege, Schwaigern 2014, ISBN 978-3-943066-34-0 , pp. 376–385.
  • Peter Rückert (ed.): From Mantua to Württemberg: Barbara Gonzaga and her court . Accompanying book and catalog for the exhibition of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, Main State Archives Stuttgart, 2nd, revised edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 2012, ISBN = 978-3-17-022390-5 online
  • Christina Antenhofer, Axel Behne, Daniela Farrari, Jürgen Herold, Peter Rückert (arrangement): Barbara Gonzaga. The letters / Le Lettere (1455–1508) , trans. by Valentina Nucera, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-023381-2 (= special publications of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives).

Web links

Commons : Barbara Gonzaga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilmann Marstaller: Residence made of stone and wood. Castle, monastery and city of Urach in the light of historical building research . In: Klaus Gereon Beuckers (ed.): City, Castle and Residence Urach. New research. Regensburg 2014, pp. 137–161.
  2. ↑ Barbara Gonzaga Community School Bad Urach  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 19, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gwrs-badurach.de  
  3. ^ Genealogical page on the family
personal data
SURNAME Gonzaga, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wife of Duke Eberhard I of Württemberg and Teck
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1455
PLACE OF BIRTH Mantua
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1503
Place of death Boeblingen