Paola Gonzaga
Paola Gonzaga (* probably September 23, 1464 in Mantua ; † November 1496 ) was a princess from the Gonzaga family .
Life
She was the last of the eleven children of margrave Ludovico III. Gonzaga and his wife Barbara von Brandenburg were born in Mantua . She was ailing, underweight and had a congenital deformity on one shoulder, so that she was treated with drinking cures and fango several times in her childhood in northern Italian spas .
Due to the mediation of her sister-in-law Margarete von Bayern and with the approval of her mother Barbara, who came from the Brandenburg-Hohenzollern house , transalpine marriages with princely families of the empire were preferred in the 15th century. In 1476, when she was twelve, Paola and Leonhard von Görz signed the wedding contract, but only two years later - shortly after the death of her father and surviving illness - she became the second wife of Leonhard von Görz in Bolzano . Her dowry was kept in bridal chests, most of which are still preserved today and are located in Klagenfurt , Millstatt and Graz . In return, her reduced beauty compared to her sister Barbara , called Barbarina Gonzaga, is mentioned. Paolo Santonino noted that the Countess was loved and respected for her unique education. Their marriage remained childless, so that the Meinhardin family died out after the death of their husband, Leonhard von Görz, and their territory fell to the Habsburgs through an inheritance contract with Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg .
Her brother Rodolfo Gonzaga († 1495), Lord of Castiglione and Solferino, was the great-grandfather of St. Aloisius of Gonzaga .
literature
- Isabella Lazzarini: GONZAGA, Paola. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 57: Giulini – Gonzaga. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2001.
- Christina Antenhofer: Letters between South and North. The marriage and marriage of Paula de Gonzaga and Leonhard von Görz in the mirror of princely communication (1473–1500) [Schlern-Schriften 336]. Innsbruck: Wagner 2007. ISBN 978-3-7030-0433-9 .
- Christina Antenhofer: From Local Signori to European High Nobility. The Gonzaga Family Networks in the 15th Century. In: Christopher H. Johnson, David Warren Sabean, Simon Teuscher, and Francesca Trivellato (Eds.): Trans-regional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond: Experiences Since the Middle Ages . New York - Oxford: Berghahn Books 2011. pp. 55–74.
- Christina Antenhofer: Letters across the borders. Strategies of Communication in an Italian-German Renaissance Correspondence. In: Jane Couchman / Ann Crabb (eds.): Women's Letters Across Europe 1400-1700. Form and Persuasion . [Women and Gender in the Early Modern World]. Aldershot: Ashgate 2005. pp. 103-122.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Claudia Sporer-Heis: Paola Gonzaga (1463-1495 / 1496)
- ↑ Andrea Mantegna and the bridal chests of Paola Gonzaga
- ^ Peter Rückert: 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, 2012; Pages: 15, 40, 41; ISBN 978-3-17-022390-5
- ^ Genealogical page on the family
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gonzaga, Paola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of Count Leonhard von Gorizia |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: September 23, 1464 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mantua |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1495 or 1496 |