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Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga

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Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga (9 December 1687 – 16 April 1729) was Duke of Guastalla.

Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga.

He was the son of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla and Maria Vittoria Gonzaga.
His sister was Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga, sister in law to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He succeeded his father in 1714.

He was engaged to Maria Karolina Sobieska, grand daughter of John III Sobieski but Maria Karolina (known as Charlotte) refused.

He married first with Margherita Cesarini, and remarried on 23 February 1727 in Darmstadt with Landgravine Theodora of Hesse-Darmstadt (6 February 1706 – 23 January 1784), daughter of Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, granddaughter of Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
These marriages remained childless.

Antonio Ferrante was burned alive in an accident in Guastalla.
After his death, the Duchy went to his younger brother Giuseppe Gonzaga.

Ancestry

Family of Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga
16. Cesare I Gonzaga, Count of Guastalla
8. Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#24)
17. Camilla Borromeo
4. Andrea Gonzaga, Count of San Paolo
18. Giannettino Doria
9. Vittoria Doria (=#25)
19. Ginetta Centurione
2. Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
10. ?, Marquis de Fusara
5. Laura Crispano
1. Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga
24. Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#8)
12. Cesare II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
25. Vittoria Doria (=#9)
6. Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
26. Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano
13. Isabella Orsini
27. Flavia Damasceni-Peretti
3. Maria Vittoria Gonzaga
28. Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena
14. Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena
29. Virginia de' Medici
7. Margarete d'Este
30. Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
15. Isabella of Savoy
31. Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain

Sources

  • Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy euweb". Genealogy.EU.[self-published source][better source needed]
Preceded by Duke of Guastalla
1714–1729
Succeeded by