PARMA.
Farnese Dynasty.
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Alessandro I Farnese Duca di Parma |
Alessandro I Farnese, Duca di Parma (1545-1592).
3rd Duke of Parma 1586
3rd Duke of Piacenza 1586
4th Duke of Castro 1586
Governor of the Spanish Netherlands 1578.
Son of: Ottavio Farnese, Duca di Parma & Margherita di Parma.
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Maria de Portugal by Antonis Mor, 1550 |
Husband of:
Maria de Portugal (1538-1577) mar 1565
Daughter of: Manuel I de Portugal & Isabel de Braganza.
Natural offspring:
a. Isabella Margherita Farnese (1578-1610)
b. Franchina de Croy.
References:
Italian military leader.
Prince of Parma
Governor of the Spanish Netherlands 1678.
Viceroy of Catalonia.
Viceroy of Navarre.
General of Venice.
Son of: Odoardo Farnese, Duca di Parma & Margherita de' Medici.
Natural offspring:
a. Alessandro Odoardo Farnese (1663-1666)
b. Alessandro Maria Farnese (1664-1726)
c. Margherita Farnese (1665-1718)
d. Isabelle Farnese (1666-1741)
Ranuccio I Farnese di Parma (1569-1622)
Son of: Alessandro Farnese & Maria of Portugal.
Husband of: Margherita Aldobrandini, daughter of Giovanni Francesco Aldobrandini, Principe di Carpineto & Olimpia Aldobrandini, Princepessa Campinelli. married 1600.
Ranuccio's personal & family background.
" . . . The first Farnese duke, Pier Luigi, was the legitimized bastard of Pope Paul III, and his son and heir, Duke Ottavio married Emperor Charles V's bastard daughter, Margherita of Austria. The Farnese were interlopers in Parma and Piacenza, never quite legitimate in the eyes of their subjects. Nobles in Parma were heard to grumble that these Farnese bastards were not the descendants of ancient and illustrious lineages like their own. Duke Ranuccio had been ruling the Farnese duchy for 20 years and had been married for over ten, but still lacked a son and legitimate heir. Duchess Margherita Aldobrandini finally bore him a son in 1610, baptized Alessandro, but the parents quickly discovered that he was deaf, mute and incapable of inheriting the throne. On 28 April 1612, with the birth of a second son, Odoardo, three weeks before the bloody executions in the city square, did Ranuccio had a possible alternate heir. Still, for some years afterwards, wirthy friars subjected poor Alessandro to exorcism and other trying ceremonies intent on casting off his affliction." (The Hero of Italy: 8)
His lover was:
Claudia Colla.
"This spectacular and noisy event, which provoked criticism from many quarters in Italy, drew much of its context from the dynastic weakness of the House of Farnese. Ranuccio had married a papal niece, Margherita Aldobrandini, in 1600, but she had not borne an heir to the throne. The duke sired a bastard boy, Ottavio, who he legitimized shortly afterwards, by the daughter of a judicial official. In the absence of legitimate heirs Ottavio was groomed for succession, but it was unlikely that the Pope would have consented to such a thing; he would probably use this as a pretext to extinguish the principality and reincorporate it into the Papal States governed from Rome. Pope Clement VIII Aldobrandini had ejected the Este dynasty from Ferrara and occupied the city in 1598 for that very reason. . . ." (The Hero of Italy: 8)
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