Ginevra d'Este
Ginevra d'Este (24 March 1419 - 12 October 1440) was an Italian noblewoman. She and her twin sister Lucia (died 1437) were daughters of Niccolò III d'Este and his second wife Parisina Malatesta - they also had a younger brother, who died aged a few months.[2] She was the first of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta's three wives.
Life
Her mother was accused of infidelity with Ugo d'Este, Ginevra's half-brother and he and Parisina were condemned to death by Niccolò when Ginevra was aged six. Five years later Niccolò remarried to Ricciarda di Saluzzo, giving Ginevra two other half-brothers (Ercole and Sigismondo), in addition to her father's other illegitimate children.
She married Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini, in Rimini in February 1434.[3] On her death in 1440 she was buried in the Tempio Malatestiano.[4] In 1461 pope Pius II accused Pandolfo of several crimes, including killing Ginevra, and excommunicated him.[5]
References
- ^ http://arte.stile.it/articoli/2001/10/25/203594.php
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- ^ Condottieri Archived 2007-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Primo Casalini. "Agostino di Duccio a Rimini". arengario.net. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Mattioli Service Provider. "La Signoria dei Malatesta". gradara.com. Retrieved 19 October 2015.