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	Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1502 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Filippo Maria VISCONTI was born 1392 and died 1447.
		Bianca Maria VISCONTI was born 1425 and died 1468.
		Galeazzo Maria SFORZA was born 1444 and died 26 Dec 1476.
	www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1502.htm (203 words)

	AllRefer.com - Visconti (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Ottone Visconti, 1207–95, archbishop of Milan, was recognized (1277) as lord of the city after he had defeated the opposition of the Della Torre family, established leaders of the popular party.
		He was assassinated, and the duchy passed to his brother, Filippo Maria Visconti, 1392–1447, who employed both diplomacy and force to restore the duchy.
		His daughter and sole heir, Bianca Maria, married Francesco I Sforza, who became duke of Milan after the fall of the short-lived Ambrosian Republic (1447–50), set up after Filippo Maria's death.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Visconti.html (728 words)

	Filippo Maria Visconti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Filippo Maria Visconti, (1392–1447), who became nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan.
		He was the son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Gian Maria's predecessor.
		He died in 1447, the last of the Visconti in direct male line, and was succeeded in the duchy, after the short-lived Ambrosian republic, by Francesco Sforza, who had married Filippo's daughter Bianca in 1441.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Filippo_Maria_Visconti (177 words)

	House of Visconti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The House of Visconti were a noble family whose effectual founder, Oddone, wrested control of the city from the rival Della Torre family in 1277.
		The Visconti ruled Milan during the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance period, first as Lords of Milan, then, from 1395 as Dukes.
		From Uberto, brother of Matteo I, came the lateral branch of dukes of Modrone; to this family belonged Luchino Visconti, one of the most prominent film directors of Italian neorealist cinema.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Visconti (112 words)

	Encyclopedia: Filippo Maria Visconti
		Gian Maria Visconti (??–1412) was the second Visconti Duke of Milan, and the son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti.
		Giangaleazzo Visconti (1351-1406) was the first Duke of Milan and he ruled the city for much of the early Renaissance.
		The short-lived Ambrosian Republic of Milan (1447 – 1450) was declared upon the death of the last of the Visconti dukes of Milian, Filippo Maria Visconti, in a sanguine moment hopeful of reviving the medieval rights of the comune, and named for St....
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Filippo-Maria-Visconti (626 words)

	VISCONTI-SFORZA TRIUMPH OF FORCE
		Although the Sforzas were employed both by the Viscontis against the Venentians and then the Venetians against the Visconti, both Murzio and Francesco finally carved city-states out for themselves, with Francesco controlling Cremona, south of Milan.
		Visconti died in 1447, leaving the Visconti possessions to Alfonse V of Spain.
		Although Sforza had already taken many former Visconti possessions, including Pavia and its library in the same year as Filippo Maria’s death, it took him three years to win Milan, claiming the right by virtue of his marriage to Visconti’s daughter.
	www.angelfire.com /space/tarot/hercule.html (1941 words)

	Filippo Maria Visconti biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Filippo Maria Visconti, (1392 - 1447), who became nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his brother as duke of Milan.
		Cruel and extremely sensitive about his personal ugliness, he nevertheless was a great politician, and by employing such powerful condottieri as Carmagnola, Piccinino and Francesco Sforza he managed to recover the Lombard portion of his father's duchy.
		He died in 1447, the last of the Visconti in direct male line, and was succeeded in the duchy, after the short-lived Ambrosian republic, by Francesco Sforza, who had married his daughter Bianca in 1441.
	filippo-maria-visconti.biography.ms (115 words)

	1405. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Filippo Maria Visconti's drive into Tuscany led Florence to declare war.
		Alliance with Venice and defeat of the Visconti, who accepted peace on onerous terms (1429); Venice monopolized the gains of the war.
		Florence and Venice in alliance defeated Filippo Maria Visconti at Anghiari.
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	Vigevano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vigevano is crowned by the Castello Sforzesco, a stronghold rebuilt 1492-4 for Ludovico Maria Sforza ('Lodovico il Moro'), the great patron born in the town, who transformed the fortification of the Visconti into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance.
		The Church of S. Pietro Martiere was built, with the adjacent Dominican convent, by Filippo Maria Visconti in 1445.
		In the last years of Visconti domination it sustained a siege by Francesco Sforza, himself a native of the city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vigevano (535 words)

	Oldest Tarotcards. Origin of Tarot. Research of the history of Tarot.
		In 1417 things had been settled - Giovanni Maria was murdered in 1412, and Giovannis brother Filippo Maria Visconti succeeded in reestablishing the rule of Milano in most of the earlier possessions, with the financial help of the 20-years-older Beatrice de Tenda, the widow of Ficino Cane and now the wife of Filippo Maria.
		Michelino was the painter, Filippo Maria Visconti the commissioner.
		He was the personal teacher of Filippo Maria, when, after the death of Giangaleazzo 1402, the 10-years-old second-son Filippo Maria was exported to Pavia, a castle housing the great and famous Library of the Visconti, with around 1000 books, the second greatest of Europe after that gathered by Charles V. the wise of France.
	geocities.com /autorbis/marcello1.html (2222 words)

	Famiglie storiche - pafg09 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		GALEAZZO MARIA SFORZA DUCA MILANO was born in 1444.
		LUDOVICO MARIA IL MORO SFORZA DUCA MILANO was born in 1452.
		FILIPPO IL BELLO ASBURGO was born in 1475.
	xoomer.virgilio.it /ulamagni/fmglstoriche/pafg09.htm (298 words)

	Visconti on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ottone Visconti, 1207-95, archbishop of Milan, was recognized (1277) as lord of the city after he had defeated the opposition of the Della Torre family, established leaders of the popular party.
		His daughter and sole heir, Bianca Maria, married Francesco I Sforza, who became duke of Milan after the fall of the short-lived Ambrosian Republic (1447-50), set up after Filippo Maria's death.
		Visconti, aristócrata de la pantalla: símbolo de la cultura Europea, director de teatro y ópera, cineasta genial, Visconti es un compendio del siglo XX: fascismo y marxismo, fe y ateísmo,...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/Visconti.asp (1270 words)

	La Battaglia di Borgomanero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gian Galeazzo alla sua morte lascia tre figli: Gabriele Maria, Giovanni Maria e Filippo Maria; il primo, per breve tempo Signore di Pisa, muore decapitato a Genova; gli altri due, per consolidare la propria autorità, all'atto della morte del padre affidano i propri eserciti a un abile condottiero di Santhià, Facino Bonifacio, detto Cane[4].
		A Giovanni Maria, il maggiore dei figli, spetta il titolo di Duca di Milano; a Filippo Maria quello di Conte di Pavia.
		Degno discendente del padre Gian Galeazzo, Filippo Maria risolleva il Ducato dalla crisi grazie alle sue doti di acuta intelligenza e capacità indiscusse; non riesce tuttavia nell'intento di estendere i domini a tutta l'Italia centrale.
	www.comune.borgomanero.no.it /turismo/La_Battaglia_di_Borgomanero.htm (9527 words)

	CARIMATE'S CASTLE HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Forty years later, the castle belonged to Catherine Visconti, Barnabò Visconti's daughter, given to her by Galeazzo Visconti, Sir of Milan in the year 1386.
		Returning to the proprietors of the castle, an Aicardi Visconti family’s branch,, extinct with the death of the last member, Annibale Visconti, who was buried in the old church of Santa Maria here in CARIMATE.
		The castle and all treasures passed to his cousin Ottavio Visconti viscount of Riozzo, his family held it to the twenty-seventh of July 1795, the year of death of Ludovico Visconti without any legal heiress.
	www.lacittadellasrl.191.it /storiagb.htm (509 words)

	brief history of Lombardy - world history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		During the late 14th century and after, under the Visconti, who were rulers of Milan since 1277, favorable to the Ghibelline or imperial party, the city was hegemonic in Lombardy and northern Italy.
		Novara, ruled by the Guelph or pro-papal Brusati, was taken in 1315; Lodi, ruled by the Fissiraga, in 1327; Cremona, ruled by the Cavalcado, in 1344; Verona, ruled by the Scaligeri, in 1378; Pavia, ruled by the Langosco, in 1399.
		The last Visconti, Filippo Maria, was succeeded by his son-in-law, the condottiero Francesco Sforza (1447).
	www.worldhistoryplus.com /l/lombardy.html (482 words)

	Francesco I Sforza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He saved the Visconti rulers of Milan from ruin on a number of occasions.
		As a reward, the then duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti, allowed Francesco to marry his daughter Bianca, but after the duke died without a male heir, fighting broke out.
		Under his rule (which was moderate and skillful), Francesco modernized the city and Duchy of Milan.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francesco_Sforza (315 words)

	Andy's Playing Cards - page VI - The Visconti Tarots - part 1
		The canopy's fringe bears a series of alternate shields with the Visconti snake and the white cross of Savoy on a red background, what several scholars consider an identification mark that points to Filippo Maria Visconti and his second wife Maria of Savoy (1428).
		Allegedly, the two personages are Francesco Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti, who married in 1441; thus, we should assume that this tarot was manufactured later than the Cary-Yale one.
		Most elements seem to suggest that the so-called Cary-Yale Visconti tarot was painted while the Sforza family had already seized the duchy of Milan, but at the same time it celebrates only the name and devices of the previous duke, Filippo Maria.
	it.geocities.com /a_pollett/cards31.htm (2409 words)

	Storia di Milano ::: Dizionario biografico
		Pier Maria incontra Bianca Pellegrini, moglie di Melchiorre di Arluno; lei è una damigella d’onore di Bianca Maria Visconti.
		Ma ormai l’alleanza coi Visconti è rotta: nel maggio 1301 Corrado è fra i congiurati che riescono a cacciare i Visconti da Milano.
		Alla morte del cugino Filippo, Napo gli succede nella carica di anziano del Popolo di Milano, e contemporaneamente in quella di podestà di Como, Novara, Bergamo e Lodi, procedendo nella linea politica tracciata dal predecessore di aiuto a Carlo d’Angiò.
	www.storiadimilano.it /Personaggi/Visconti/dizionario_biografico.htm (4856 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - - ARCHIVE - Ducal Court of Milan
		Galeazzo Visconti received (1395) the title of duke of Milan from the emperor, and under him the duchy became one of the most important states in Italy.
		The nobles, who had gathered round the Visconti, and who threatened to bring Ezzelino da Romano, the Ghibelline tyrant of Padua, into the city, were defeated by Martino, and 900 of their number were captured.
		Otto Visconti, archbishop of Milan (1262), the victor of Desio, became lord of Milan, and founded the house of Visconti, who ruled the city—except from 1302 to 131o—till 1447, giving twelve lords to Milan.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=1902361 (2050 words)

	Visconti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; ArtsEtc: Luchino Visconti is remembered as a handsome and aristocratic director of exquisite films...
		The decadent, heady swagger of Luchino Visconti's films is not to everyone's taste.
		Helpless against the full force of Visconti's charm, she cried, you are saying all...
	hallencyclopedia.com /Visconti (326 words)

	University of Kentucky Special Collections - Kentuckiensis VIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan and Count of Pavia from 1412 to 1447 is mentioned in the course of a prayer on fol.
		The last of the Visconti dukes, Filippo Maria won several important victories over his arch-enemies, the Venetians and Florentines.
		His eventual downfall resulted from the fact that he never trusted his generals and would not allow them to command long enough to score too many decisive victories, preferring the defeat of his forces to the possibility of a strong second-in-command.
	www.byu.edu /~hurlbut/dscriptorium/ukentucky/ky8/ky8.html (200 words)

	Illustrious People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Unhealthy, ugly; and obsessed by fear and suspicion, Filippo Maria dedicated his life to the pursuit of power ('I care less for my body than my soul, but I put my government before body or soul').
		During the rule of his brother Giovanni Maria (Duke 1402-12), the Visconti territories had been largely taken over by condottieri and local factions.
		Filippo Maria's first act as Duke was to marry Beatrice, widow of the powerful condottiere Facino Cane, and by so doing secure his troops and the cities of Novara, Alessandria, Tortona and Pavia, which he had controlled.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /database/glossary/illustri/viscon_f.html (300 words)

	The Sforza Domination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At Filippo Maria Visconti's death, the Duchy of Milan went to Filippo V d'Aragona.
		He defeated the Venice Republic, made himself master of the Ambrosian Republic and was proclaimed Duke in 1450 through his marriage to Bianca Maria Visconti, daughter of the last Visconti duke of Milan.
		Francesco was succeeded by his eldest son, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, a highly educated but dissolute and cruel man. He was assassinated in 1476 by a group of republican conspirators.
	www.gicas.net /machiavelli/sforza.html (683 words)

	::: Storia di Milano ::: Manzoni personaggi
		Maria, Pietro e Paolo detto anche di S. Maria Regina e lo danno in dotazione al monastero femminile di S. Giulia a Brescia insieme allo xenodochio pavese di S. Maria Brittonum.
		Filippo Maria entra così in possesso del principato che si era creato il Cane, con le città di Tortona e Vercelli e dell'esercito, comandato dal Carmagnola.
		Filippo Maria chiede aiuto all'imperatore Sigismondo, che però non interviene, poi toglie il comando al Piccinino e lo affida al signore di Pesaro, Carlo Malatesta, che non era un capitano di ventura.
	www.storiadimilano.it /Repertori/manzoni_materiali.htm (3149 words)

	The Tarot of Valentina Visconti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This deck is the artistic collaboration of Maria Teresa Perosino and Sergio Panza.
		The full name of this deck is I Tarocchi di Valentina Visconti per il Palio d’Asti, or The Tarot of Valentina Visconti at the Palio of Asti.
		Giangalleazzo was himself married to the daughter of the King of France, a major alliance for the Visconti family.
	www.spiritone.com /~filipas/Masquerade/Reviews/valent.html (647 words)

	The Official Castello Sforzesco Website
		Ottone Visconti, who had already been archbishop of Milan under Pope Urbano IV (1262), succeeded in wresting control of the city from the ruling Napo Della Torre, whom he defeated in Desio in 1277.
		Luchino Visconti continued his predecessor's military conquests, acquiring territory in Piedmont and in the provinces of Parma and Crema.
		His daughter and sole heir, Bianca Maria, married Francesco I Sforza, who became duke of Milan after the fall of the short-lived Ambrosian Republic, set up after Filippo Maria's death in 1447, and, by his valour and sagacity, one of the most powerful leaders of his time.
	www.milanocastello.it /ing/approfondimentiVisconti.html (929 words)

	Mechtild of VIRNEBURG - Pietro VISCONTI
		1 Agnes VISCONTI =Giovanni Francesco II GONZAGA, Duke of Mantova 2 Lodovico III GONZAGA, Marquis of Mantova =Barbara of BRANDENBURG 3 Federigo I GONZAGA, Marquis of Montova =Margarete of BAVARIA 3 Barbara GONZAGA =Eberhard I of WURTTEMBERG, Duke of Wurttemberg 3 Giovanni Francesco Gonzaga of SABBIONETTA =Antoinette of BAUX 3 Rodolfo Gonzaga of CASTIGILIONE
		\-Beatrice D'ESTE /-Filippo Maria VISCONTI, Duke of MIlan Bianca Maria VISCONTI
		1 Catarina VISCONTI =Gian Galeazzo VISCONTI, Duke of Milan
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