Mary of Savoy (1411-1469)

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Mary of Savoy

Maria of Savoy (* January 1411 in Chambéry ; † February 22, 1469 in Vigone ) was a princess from the House of Savoy and through her marriage to Filippo Maria Visconti Duchess of Milan.

Life

Mary of Savoy was the second daughter of the Count and later Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy and Mary of Burgundy , a daughter of the Burgundian Duke Philip the Bold . According to a marriage contract drawn up on December 2, 1427, she became the wife of Duke Filippo Maria Visconti (1392-1447) of Milan. This marriage was for purely political reasons. The Visconti had faced a hostile coalition consisting of Florence , Venice, and Savoy. After the heavy defeat in the Battle of Maclodio on October 11, 1427, he had decided to break up the opposing alliance in order to overcome his difficult situation by making Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy an ally through the marriage of his daughter Maria . Under pressure to conclude the alliance swiftly, he did not place too much emphasis on the question of his bride's dowry . His wedding to the Savoy princess took place in Vercelli on September 24, 1428.

Filippo Maria Visconti probably never married Maria; the relationship remained childless. The Duke of Milan had previously been married to Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda , but had her beheaded in 1418 on charges of adultery. In memory of his first wife, he is said to have been suspicious of Maria, let her live in separate rooms from him and keep her away from every encounter with other men. The real woman in his life was his lover Agnese del Maino , with whom he had the daughter Bianca Maria Visconti (Duchess of Milan from 1450 to 1468).

After the death of her husband in 1447, Mary of Savoy became a nun in the Poor Clare convent in Turin . Her will is dated March 9, 1458. She died in 1469 and was buried in the old Franciscan church in Pinerolo .

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Remarks

  1. ^ So Charles Cawley: Marie de Savoie on Medieval Lands ; according to the article Marie de Savoie (1411–1469) on princesses-savoie.fr , however, she was born in the castle of Thonon-les-Bains .
  2. ↑ So the information about Marie on genealogy.euweb.cz ; according to the article Marie de Savoie (1411–1469) on princesses-savoie.fr , however, she died on December 14, 1469 in Vercelli .
  3. ↑ a b c d Charles Cawley: Marie de Savoie on Medieval Lands .
  4. ↑ a b c Francesca Maria Vaglienti: Visconti 4, Filippo Maria . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 1721.
  5. ↑ a b Marie de Savoie (1411–1469) on princesses-savoie.fr
  6. ^ Volker Reinhardt : The great families of Italy , Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-520-48501-X , p. 595.
  7. ^ Pier Candido Decembrio : Life of Filippo Maria Visconti Third Duke of Milan , ed. published by Eugen Diederichs, 1913, p. 24 f., quoted in the article Maria von Savoyen by Manfred Hiebl, Genealogie des Mittelalters ; see. the article Agnese del Maino on kleio.org .
  8. ↑ Paolo Cozzo: Stratégie dynastique chez les Savoie: une ambition royale, XVI-XVIII siècle , in: (Eds.) A. Juliusz Chroscicki, Mark Hengerer, Gérard Sabatier: Les funérailles princières en Europe, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle , Vol. 1 : Le grand théâtre de la mort , Les Editions de la MSH, 2012, ISBN 978-2-73511-686-7 , pp. 228-230 .
personal data
SURNAME Savoy, Mary of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duchess of Milan
DATE OF BIRTH January 1411
PLACE OF BIRTH Chambery
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1469
Place of death Vigone