Francesco Maria I della Rovere

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Francesco Maria I
Giovanni della Rovere
MotherGiovanna da Montefeltro

Francesco Maria I

Duke of Urbino from 1508 to 1516 and, after retaking the throne from Lorenzo II de' Medici
, from 1521 to 1538.

Biography

He was born in

Giuliano della Rovere
, Pope Julius II.

Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga by Titian, 1538

His uncle

duke of Urbino
; thanks to the support of his uncle the pope he could also recover Senigallia after Borgia's death.

In 1508 he married

Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and Isabella d'Este
.

Figure from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–11), possibly Francesco della Rovere, although others think it is the philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.[2][3]

In 1509 he was appointed as capitano generale (commander-in-chief) of the Papal States, and subsequently fought in the Italian Wars against Ferrara and Venice. In 1511, after he had failed to conquer Bologna, he had the cardinal Francesco Alidosi killed by his troops, a cruel action for which he was compared to Borgia himself. In 1513 he was created also lord of Pesaro.

However, the death of Julius II deprived him of his main political patron, and under the new pope,

Lorenzo II de' Medici. In 1516 he was excommunicated and ousted from Urbino, which he tried unsuccessfully to recover the following year
. He could return in his duchy only after Leo's death in 1521.

Young Man with an Apple, portrait of Francesco Maria as a teenager by Raphael, 1504.

Della Rovere fought as

Clement VII, the della Rovere were increasingly marginalized. As supreme commander of the Holy League, his inaction against the Imperial invasion troops is generally listed as one of the causes of the Sack of Rome
(1527).

He was a protagonist of the capture of Pavia in the late 1520s[when?], and later[when?] fought for the Republic of Venice. Later[when?] he arranged the marriage of son Guidobaldo to Giulia da Varano (belonging to another former seigniory family of the region) to counter the Papal power in the Marche.

He died in Pesaro, poisoned. Some scholars suggest that

Elizabethan Era.[4]

Issue

References

  1. ^ James Dennistoun (1851). Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the arms, arts, and literature of Italy, from 1440 to 1630. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 301.
  2. .
  3. ^ The National Quarterly Review. Pudney & Russell. 4 June 1864. p. 133 – via Internet Archive. Francesco della Rovere school of athens.
  4. ^ McGee, Arthur (1 September 2007). "The Elizabethan Hamlet". Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
  5. ^ Later legitimised and named Marchese di San Lorenzo. Ippolito's daughter Lucrezia married Marcantonio Lante and their son assumed the new extended surname as Ippolito Lante Montefeltro della Rovere

Sources

  • Rendina, Claudio (1994). I capitani di ventura. Rome: Newton Compton.

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Italian nobility
Preceded by
Giovanni della Rovere
Duke of Sora

1501–1516
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Guidobaldo I
Duke of Urbino

1508–1516 (1517)
Succeeded by
Lorenzo II de' Medici
Preceded by
Lorenzo II de' Medici
Duke of Urbino

1521–1538
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Duke of Sora

1533–1538
Succeeded by