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The Duchy of Milan (Italian: Ducato di Milano; Lombard: Ducaa de Milan) was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city since 1277.
After the Treaty of Rastatt of 1714, Emperor Charles VI officially gained the Duchy of Milan, a possession considered vital to the security of Austria's southern border. [16] Since that moment, Milan was a permanent possession of the Austrian branch of the Habsburg dynasty.
Spain also cedes Sicily and parts of the Duchy of Milan to Savoy; the Spanish Netherlands, the Kingdom of Naples, Sardinia, and the bulk of the Duchy of Milan to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor; and lands in South America between the Amazon River and the Oiapoque River to the Kingdom of Portugal. July
Pedro Alvarez set up an extensive defensive engineering program, with Italian engineers working in Italy, Spain and the Caribbean in America. Between 1616 and 1618, he was Governor of the Duchy of Milan, where he led the Spanish Army in the second phase of the War of the Montferrat Succession against Savoy and France.
Milan is home to the oldest restaurant in Italy and the second in Europe, the Antica trattoria Bagutto , which has existed since at least 1284. [45] Much of the prior history of Milan was the tale of the struggle between two political factions: the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. Most of the time the Guelphs were successful in the city of Milan.
He received the title of Duke of Milan from Wenceslaus, King of the Romans in 1395 for 100,000 florins. [ 8 ] Gian Galeazzo spent 300,000 golden florins [ citation needed ] in attempting to turn from their courses the rivers Mincio from Mantua and the Brenta from Padua, in order to render those cities helpless before the force of his arms.
The figure of the Governor of Milan had already been established in 1526, following the Battle of Pavia and the passage of the duchy from the Kingdom of France, which invaded the Duchy in 1499, to the Sforza, no more as an independent state as it was during the centuries old rule of the Milanese dynasties, but now under the protection of Charles V.
The Duchy of Milan existed from 1395 to 1797. ... Military history of the Duchy of Milan (2 C, 1 P) P. Duchy of Milan people (6 C, 63 P) Pages in category "Duchy of ...