GiovanniMariaSforza (died 1513) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Genoa (1498–1513). On 25 March 1498, he was appointed during...
illegitimate daughter Caterina Sforza married Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano illegitimate son Ottaviano MariaSforza bishop of Lodi son Ludovico il Moro...
Caterina Sforza (1463 – 28 May 1509) was an Italian noblewoman, the Countess of Forlì and Lady of Imola, firstly with her husband Girolamo Riario, and...
Galeazzo MariaSforza (24 January 1444 – 26 December 1476) was the fifth Duke of Milan from 1466 until 1476. He was notorious for being lustful, cruel...
Ludovico MariaSforza (Italian: [ludoˈviːko maˈriːa ˈsfɔrtsa]; 27 July 1452 – 27 May 1508), also known as Ludovico il Moro (Italian: [il ˈmɔːro]; "the...
Francesco Sforza (1491–1512) Ippolita MariaSforza (1493–1501) Bona Sforza (1494–1557); married Sigismund I of Poland Bianca MariaSforza (posthumously...
Ippolita MariaSforza (18 April 1445 – 20 August 1488) was an Italian noblewoman, a member of the Sforza family which ruled the Duchy of Milan from 1450...
Maximilian MariaSforza (Italian: Massimiliano MariaSforza; 25 January 1493 – 25 May 1530) was a Duke of Milan from the Sforza family, the son of Ludovico...
Giovanni Paolo I Sforza (March 1497 – December 1535) was an Italian condottiero, the first in the Sforza family line of the Marquesses of Caravaggio. He...
Francesco Sforza, who ruled Milan for 16 years. Giacomuzzo was born in 1369 in Cotignola (Romagna) to a rich family of rural nobility, son of Giovanni Attendolo...
aged 11. In 1497 Giovanni married Caterina Sforza, Lady of Forlì and Imola. They had a son, baptized Ludovico. However, after Giovanni's death soon afterwards...
Ascanio MariaSforza Visconti (3 March 1455 – 28 May 1505) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. Generally known as a skilled diplomat who played...
the court of the Emperor Maximilian I, who had married a Sforza, Francesco's cousin Bianca Maria. Francesco was assigned to an ecclesiastical career. His...
marriages for her that advanced their own political position including GiovanniSforza, Lord of Pesaro and Gradara, Count of Cotignola; Alfonso of Aragon...
male heirs; Francesco Sforza, a famous condottiero and Filippo Maria's son-in-law through his illegitimate daughter Bianca Maria Visconti. The two most...
Cognac, respectively. Giovanni was born in the Northern Italian town of Forlì to Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano and Caterina Sforza, one of the most famous...
the death of Filippo Maria Visconti in 1447. He was succeeded by a short-lived republic and then by his son-in-law Francesco I Sforza, who established the...
portrait of Gian Galeazzo MariaSforza as Saint Sebastian Portrait of a Young Man, circa 1500 Emperor Maximilian I (1502) Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis at the...
Pope Pius IX (Italian: Pio IX, Pio Nono; born GiovanniMaria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846...
Girolamo. Francesco. In 1534 he married Isabella Sforza (1503 - 1561), natural daughter of GiovanniSforza, but the marriage was declared nullius for "spiritual...
(Italian for "Sforza's Castle") is a medieval fortification located in Milan, Northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of...
(Farnese).[citation needed] The favoured candidate was Reginald Pole, but GiovanniMaria Ciocchi del Monte, Julius III, was elected. As senior Cardinal Deacon...
was engaged as a sculptor, with his brother Protasio, by Duke Galeazzo MariaSforza to work at the famous Certosa, near Pavia. While engaged at the Certosa...
Ginevra Sforza (ca. 1441 – 17 May 1507) became the wife of Sante Bentivoglio and then of Giovanni II Bentivoglio, both de facto signori (or unofficial...
Crivelli was a mistress of Ludovico Sforza "il Moro", Duke of Milan. She was the mother of Sforza's son, Giovanni Paolo I Sforza, Marquess of Caravaggio. Crivelli...