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Alfonso I d'Este
Duke of Ferrara from 1504 to 1534
Alfonso d'Este (21 July 1476 – 31 October 1534) was Duke of Ferrara from 1504 to 1534, during the time of the War of the League of Cambrai.
Biography
He was the son of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Eleanor of Naples and became duke on Ercole's death in January 1505. In the first year of his rule he uncovered a plot by his brother Ferrante and half-brother Giulio d'Este, directed against him and his other brother Ippolito.[3] In September 1506 a trial for lèse majesté and high treason was held and, as expected, the death sentence was passed, but just as Ferrante and Giulio were about to mount the gallows they were informed that the duke had commuted their sentence to life imprisonment. They were led away to two cells in the Torre dei Leoni. Ferrante died in his cell after 34 years of imprisonment, while Giulio held on until he was pardoned in 1559, after 53 years of imprisonment. After his release, Giulio was ridiculed in the streets of Ferrara for his outdated clothes and died in 1561.
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Alfonso II d'Este
Duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597
Alfonso II d'Este (22 November 1533 – 27 October 1597) was Duke of Ferrara from 1559 to 1597. He was a member of the House of Este.
Biography
Alfonso was the elder son of Ercole II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of Brittany and was the fifth and last Duke of Ferrara.[1]
As a young man, Alfonso fought in the service of Henry II of France against the Habsburgs. Soon after his accession, he was forced by Pope Pius IV to send his mother back to France due to her increasingly Calvinist beliefs.[2] The 1570 Ferrara earthquake occurred during his reign. In 1583, he allied with Emperor Rudolf II in the war against the Turks in Hungary.
Throughout the 1550s, Alfonso had an interest in Castrato singing voices. Given his childless marriages, this additional fact has prompted some historians to speculate that the Duke was homosexual.[citation needed]
Marriages
Alfonso married three times:
- On 3 July 1558, he married his first wife Lucrez
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Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
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Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
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Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, was a member of the House of Este. He was the son of Ercole I d'Este and Renée of France. He was the grandson of Francesco I d'Este. He was the brother of Isabella d'Este. He was the uncle of Francesco II d'Este. Alfonso I was born in Ferrara, Italy. He married Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Catta
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