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The Milanese Dynasty of the Visconti — Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan

Bianca Maria Visconti, die Herzogin von Mailand
Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan, as the Virgin Mary and her Child Jesus – she is Isabella of Aragon's maternal grandmother

Born:
31. March 1425

Deceased:
23. October 1468

Father:

Filippo Maria Visconti (1392-1447), Duke of Milan, youngest son of the most famous Milanese Duke of the Visconti dynasty, Giangaleazzo Visconti († 1402)


Mother:

Agnese del Maino († 1465), the only woman (and the only person), who was ever loved by the shy and secluded Filippo Maria Visconti; Agnese del Maino was not his mistress, but his wife (clandestine marriage); they must have married before 1425


Spouse:

the Condottiere Francesco Sforza (1401-1466); marriage on 26. October 1441; in 1450 he became Duke of Milan


Children:
  1. her son Galeazzo Maria (1444-1476, assassinated), Duke of Milan 1466-1476
  2. her daughter Ippolita Maria (1445-1488)
  3. her son Filippo Maria (c.1446/1447-1492), Count of Corsica; engaged to Maria of Savoy (c. 1450-1475) – this engagement was dissolved; married to his cousin Costanza († after 1497), a daughter of Bosio I. Sforza of Santa Fiora – one daughter (her name probably was Bianca [Maria] or Bona [Maria] ), born in c. 1470, who married Giovanni Galeazzo Visconti, Count of Sesto Calende
  4. her son Sforza Maria (c. 1447/1448-1479), Duke of Bari 1464-1479 (Bari including the lands of Palo and Modugno)
  5. her son Lodovico Maria il Moro (or Ludovico Maria il Moro) (1451-1508), Duke of Bari 1479-1494/99 (Bari including the lands of Borello, Longobucco, Rosarno, Rossano), Duke of Milan 1494-1499, 1500
  6. her son Ascanio Maria (1455-1505), Abbot of Chiaravalle, Bishop of Pavia, Cremona, Pesaro and Novara and Cardinal since 6. or 17. March 1484
  7. her daughter Elisabetta Maria (1456-1472), since 18. July 1469 married to Guglielmo VIII. Paleologo (1416-1483), Margrave of Montferrat
  8. her son Ottaviano Maria (1458-1477), Count of Lugano; he drowned in an attempt to escape

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