Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
Deceased Person
1687 – 1729
Who was Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla?
Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga was Duke of Guastalla.
He was the son of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla and Maria Vittoria Gonzaga.
His sister was Eleonora Luisa Gonzaga, sister in law to Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He succeeded his father in 1714.
He was engaged to Maria Karolina Sobieska, grand daughter of John III Sobieski but Maria Karolina refused.
He married first with Margherita Cesarini, and remarried on February 23, 1727 in Darmstadt with Landgravine Theodora of Hesse-Darmstadt, daughter of Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, granddaughter of Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
These marriages remained childless.
Antonio Ferrante was burned alive in an accident in Guastalla.
After his death, the Duchy went to his younger brother Giuseppe Gonzaga.
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- Born
- Dec 9, 1687
Guastalla - Parents
- Died
- Apr 16, 1729
Guastalla
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on July 23, 2013
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