Filippo Maria Visconti
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Filippo Maria Visconti, (1392–1447), who became nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan. He was the son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Gian Maria's predecessor.
Cruel and extremely sensitive about his personal ugliness, he nevertheless was a great politician, and by employing such powerful condottieri as Carmagnola, Piccinino and Francesco Sforza he managed to recover the Lombard portion of his father's duchy. From his marriage with the unhappy widow of Facino Cane de Cesale he received a dowry of nearly half a million florins.
He died in 1447, the last of the Visconti in direct male line, and was succeeded in the duchy, after the short-lived Ambrosian republic, by Francesco Sforza, who had married Filippo's daughter Bianca in 1441.
| Preceded by: Gian Maria Visconti | Duke of Milan 1412–1447 | Succeeded by: (Ambrosian Republic) |
This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.
Categories: 1911 Britannica | Dukes of Milan | Italian nobility | 1392 births | 1447 deaths | Visconti
