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Guastalla Guastalla ( Guastallese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Reggio Emilia in Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Geography Guastalla is situated in the Po Valley, and lies on the banks of the Po River. Guastalla is located at around from the citi ...

, a town in

Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

, on the right bank of the

Po River The Po ( , ; la, Padus or ; Ancient Ligurian: or ) is the longest river in Italy. It flows eastward across northern Italy starting from the Cottian Alps. The river's length is either or , if the Maira, a right bank tributary, is included. Th ...

. The

County of Guastalla The County of Guastalla was a feudal state in northern Italy, centered on Guastalla. The title of count was created in 1406 for Guido Torelli. The Torelli family ruled Guastalla until 1539 when it was purchased by Ferrante Gonzaga. Another bra ...

was established in 1406 for the Torelli family. In 1456, the county was partitioned, with

Montechiarugolo Montechiarugolo (Parmigiano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about southeast of Parma. Montechiarugolo borders the following municipalities: ...

and

Casei Casei Gerola is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. It is located about southwest of Milan and about southwest of Pavia. Casei Gerola borders the following municipalities: Castelnuovo Scrivia, Cornale e Ba ...

going to

Pietro Guido I Torelli Pietro is an Italian masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: People * Pietro I Candiano (c. 842–887), briefly the 16th Doge of Venice * Pietro Tribuno (died 912), 17th Doge of Venice, from 887 to his death * Pietro II Ca ...

. The County of Guastalla was raised to ducal status in 1621, when it became the

Duchy of Guastalla The Duchy of Guastalla was an Italian state which existed between 1621 and 1748. It was bordered by the Duchy of Modena and Reggio and the Po River to the north, on the opposite bank of the Duchy of Mantua. History On 2 July 1621, Emperor Ferd ...

Lords of Guastalla

*Gilberto da Correggio 1307-1321 *Simone da Correggio 1321-1346, together with: **Guido da Correggio **Azzone da Correggio **Giovanni da Correggio *''To the

Duchy of Milan The Duchy of Milan ( it, Ducato di Milano; lmo, 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 sinc ...

'' 1346-1403 *

Ottone Terzi ''Ottone, re di Germania'' ("Otto, King of Germany", HWV 15) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, to an Italian–language libretto adapted by Nicola Francesco Haym from the libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino for Antonio Lotti's opera ' ...

1403-1406

Counts of Guastalla

* Guido Torelli 1406-1449 (Count from 1428) *

Cristoforo Torelli Cristoforo may refer to: See also * Cristoforo Colombo (disambiguation) * Cristian (disambiguation) * San Cristoforo (disambiguation) * Violet Kazue de Cristoforo Violet Kazue de Cristoforo (September 3, 1917 – October 3, 2007) was ...

1449-1490Divided the territory with

. See

County of Montechiarugolo The County of Montechiarugolo was a small sovereign state of northern Italy which existed from 1456 to 1612. It included the other fief of Casei. It was created from a splitting in the county of Guastalla between count Cristoforo Torelli and Pie ...

Guido Galeotto Torelli Guido is a given name Latinised from the Old High German name Wido. It originated in Medieval Italy. Guido later became a male first name in Austria, Germany, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and Switzerland. The mea ...

1460-1479, together with: **Francesco Maria Torelli * Pietro Guido II Torelli 1486-1494 * Achille Torelli 1494-1522 *

Ludovica Torelli Ludovica Torelli (26 September 1500 – 28 October 1569) was ruling Countess of Guastalla in 1522–1539. A philanthropist, she was instrumental in the founding of two religious institutes for woman: the Angelic Sisters of Saint Paul and the "Co ...

1522-1539 * Ferrante I Gonzaga 1539-1557 * Cesare I Gonzaga 1557-1575 * Ferrante II Gonzaga 1575-1630 (Count until 1621, then Duke)

Dukes of Guastalla

* Ferrante II Gonzaga 1575-1630 (Count before 1621) * Cesare II Gonzaga 1630-1632 * Ferrante III Gonzaga 1632-1678 *''To the

'' 1678-1693 * Vincenzo Gonzaga 1693-1714 **''To

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...

'' 1702-1704 * Antonio Ferdinando Gonzaga 1714-1729 * Giuseppe Maria Gonzaga 1729-1746 **''To France'' 1734-1738 *''To the

Holy Roman Empire The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. From the accession of Otto I in 962 ...

'' (1746–1748) *''To the

Duchy of Parma, Piacenza e Guastalla The Duchy of Parma and Piacenza ( it, Ducato di Parma e Piacenza, la, Ducatus Parmae et Placentiae), was an Italian state created in 1545 and located in northern Italy, in the current region of Emilia-Romagna. Originally a realm of the Farnese ...

'' (1748–1806; under French occupation from 1801) *

Pauline Bonaparte Paula Maria Bonaparte Leclerc Borghese (French: ''Pauline Marie Bonaparte''; 20 October 1780 – 9 June 1825), better known as Pauline Bonaparte, was an imperial French princess, the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, and the princess cons ...

and Camillo Borghese (March–May 1806) *''To the

Kingdom of Italy The Kingdom of Italy ( it, Regno d'Italia) was a state that existed from 1861, when Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy, until 1946, when civil discontent led to an institutional referendum to abandon the monarchy and ...

'' (1806-1814) *''To the restored

'' (1814–1847) *''To the

Duchy of Modena A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a medieval country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition. There once existed an important difference between ...

'' (1847–1861) *Part of

(1861–present)

Footnotes

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