Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga

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Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga (9 December 1687 – 16 April 1729) was the reigning

He was engaged to Princess Maria Karolina Sobieska, granddaughter of John III Sobieski but Maria Karolina (known as Charlotte) refused and married Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, Prince of Turenne instead.

He married first with Margherita Cesarini (1695-1725).^[1] After death of his first wife, he was remarried on 23 February 1727 in Darmstadt to Theodora of Hesse-Darmstadt (6 February 1706 – 23 January 1784), the only daughter of Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt and his wife, Princess Marie Therese Ernestine of Croy-Havré (1673-1714). She was also granddaughter of Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
These marriages remained childless.

Death

Antonio Ferrante was burned alive in an accident in his capital,

References

Sources

• Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy euweb". Genealogy.EU.[
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