Rinaldo d'Este

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Rinaldo as Duke of Modena (painting presumably by Gennari Benedetto)
Rinaldo d'Este as cardinal (1686 to 1696)

Rinaldo d'Este (born June 25, 1655 in Modena ; † October 22, 1737 ibid) from the Este family was Duke of Modena.

Life

He was the youngest son of Duke Francesco I d'Este of Modena and Reggio from his third marriage to Lucrezia Barberini. Rinaldo was on September 2, 1686 by Pope Innocent XI. elevated to cardinal deacon .

After the childless death of his nephew Francesco II. D'Este he was named Rinaldo III on September 6, 1694. Duke of Modena and Reggio. He resigned from his ecclesiastical offices and married on February 11, 1696 Charlotte Felicitas von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (* March 8, 1671, † September 29, 1710), daughter of Duke Johann Friedrich and his Italian wife Anna Gonzaga , for the continuation of the Secure family. This was the first marriage of a ruling Fulc-Estonian (the descendants of Fulcos I. d'Este ) with the Welf-Estonian line since their division around 1100. The marriage was arranged by the philosopher and polymathGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who researched the common origins of the two houses on behalf of the Welfenhaus and whose archive studies on this subject also took him to the Modeneser Hof in 1690.

During the War of the Spanish Succession , he was driven from his possessions on July 30, 1702, and the country came under Spanish - French occupation. Only on February 7, 1707 did he get Modena and Reggio back. In 1710 he bought the Duchy of Mirandola .

Rinaldo and Charlotte had seven children:

  1. Benedetta d'Este (August 18, 1697 - September 17, 1777);
  2. Francesco III. d'Este (1698–1780), Duke 1737, ⚭ 1720 Charlotte d'Orléans (1700–1761), daughter of Duke Philip II of Orléans , Regent of France;
  3. Amalia d'Este (July 28, 1699 - July 5, 1778);
  4. Gianfrancesco d'Este (September 1, 1700 - April 24, 1727);
  5. Enrietta d'Este (* May 27, 1702; † January 30, 1777) ⚭ 1) February 5, 1728 Antonio Farnese (1679–1731), Duke of Parma , ⚭ 2) September 2, 1740 Leopold von Hessen-Darmstadt (1708 -1763);
  6. Clemente d'Este (born April 20/23, 1708);
  7. Daughter (born September 1710).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria Rosa Antognazza, Leibniz. An Intellectual Biography, Cambridge 2009, 307f.

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predecessor Office successor
Francesco II. Duke of Modena and Reggio
1694–1737 		Francesco III.
personal data
SURNAME Este, Rinaldo d '
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cardinal, Duke of Modena and Reggio
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Modena
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1737
Place of death Modena