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William of Montferrat (early 1140s – 1177), also called William Longsword (modern Italian Guglielmo Lungaspada; original Occitan Guilhem Longa-Espia), was the count of Jaffa and Ascalon, the eldest son of Marquess William V of Montferrat and Judith of Babenberg.
William V of Montferrat (occ./piem. Guilhem , it. Guglielmo ) ( c. 1115 – 1191) also known regnally as William III of Montferrat [ 1 ] while also referred to as William the Old or William the Elder , [ 1 ] in order to distinguish him from his eldest son, William Longsword , was seventh Marquis of Montferrat from 1135 to his death in 1191.
It was created out of what was left of the medieval March of Montferrat after the last Palaeologus heir had died (1533) and the margraviate had been briefly controlled by the Emperor Charles V (until 1536). After that brief interlude, it passed by marriage of the last heiress, Margaret of Montferrat, to the House of Gonzaga, already dukes of ...
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The Marchioness and Duchesses of Montferrat [1] were the consorts of the rulers of a territory in Piedmont south of the Po and east of Turin called Montferrat. The March of Montferrat was created by Berengar II of Italy in 950 during a redistribution of power in the northwest of his kingdom.
Margaret was born in Casale to William IX of Montferrat [1] and his wife Anne of Alençon. [2]Margaret was the second of three children. Her elder sister was Maria Paleologa, who died when she was 21 years of age, and her younger brother was Boniface IV of Montferrat, who died when he was only 18 years of age.
[2] In 1624 Emperor Ferdinand II appointed Ferrante as general commissar in Italy to reinforce imperial authority. [3] Ferrante played a part in the War of the Mantuan Succession when, as a distant Gonzaga cousin, he claimed the Duchy of Mantua after the extinction of the senior male branch of the House of Gonzaga in December 1627.
Judith was a daughter of Margrave Leopold III of Austria (1073–1136) and his second wife, Agnes (1072–1143), [1] the only daughter of the Salian emperor Henry IV. During 1133, Judith married the Aleramici marquess William V of Montferrat. [1]