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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.
Bas-relief sculpted on the Palazzo della Ragione of the scrofa semilanuta ("half-woolly sow") from which, according to tradition, the city's toponym derives. Milan was founded with the Celtic name of Medhelanon, [2] [1] later latinized by the ancient Romans into Mediolanum.
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.
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.
In the course of the 15th century, however, the territory under Milanese control narrowed to the Duchy of Milan and later never regained the extension reached under the Visconti rule. [127] In the 16th century, the absolute power established by the Visconti ended with Francesco II, the last Sforza duke. [128]
Bianca Maria Visconti in a portrait by Bonifacio Bembo, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan Francesco's coat of arms encircled with the garter. Francesco I Sforza KG (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ˈpriːmo ˈsfɔrtsa]; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
The House of Sforza (Italian:) was a ruling family of Renaissance Italy, based in Milan.Sforza rule began with the family's acquisition of the Duchy of Milan following the extinction of the Visconti family in the mid-15th century and ended with the death of the last member of the family's main branch, Francesco II Sforza, in 1535.
The Duchy of Milan existed from 1395-1447 and from 1450-1796. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. A.