Bonacossa Borri

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Bonacossa Borri, also known as Bonaca, or Bonaccossi Bonacosta (1254–1321), was

by marriage from 1269 to 1321.

Biography

Bonacossa was the daughter of

.

Once the Visconti had conquered Milan, Squarcina Borri gave his daughter in marriage to Matteo I Visconti, Lord of Milan in 1269 to cement those bonds essential to maintaining the rule of the Visconti.

Bonacossa and her husband co-founded of the chapel of St. Thomas in the Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio of Milan, where they were buried, along with their son Stefano and his two daughters Beatrice and Catherine, and the brother of Matteo, Uberto III Visconti.

She died in Milan on 13 January 1321 .

Descendants

• Lord of Milan. He married Beatrice d'Este
• Beatrice (b. 1280), married Spinetta Malaspina of Verucola
• Caterina (b. 1282 – d. 1311), married Alboino della Scala
• Luchino (b. 1285) Lord of Milan, married Violente di Saluzzo
• Stefano (b. 1287) Count of Arona, married Valentina Doria
• Marco (b. 1289)
• Giovanni (b. 1291), Archbishop of Milan
• Zaccaria (b. 1295), married Otto Rusconi
• Floramonda, married Guido Mandelli, count of Maccagno
• Agnese, married Cecchino della Scala

See also

• Corbetta, Lombardy
• Santo Stefano Ticino

External links

• Marchi, François. "Bonacossa Borri's Genealogy". François Marchi's genealogy website. Retrieved 5 December 2010.^{[permanent dead link]}