Ludovico I del Vasto (1405–15 April 1475) was
Marquess of Saluzzo
The marquises (also marquesses or margraves) of Saluzzo were the medieval feudal rulers city of Saluzzo (today part of Piedmont, Italy) and its countryside from 1175 to 1549. Originally counts, the family received in ''feudum'' the city from the ...
from 1416 until his death.
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The son of Marquess Thomas III, he held the Marquisate of Saluzzo
Saluzzo (; ) is a town and former principality in the province of Cuneo, in the Piedmont region, Italy.
The city of Saluzzo is built on a hill overlooking a vast, well-cultivated plain. Iron, lead, silver, marble, slate etc. are found in the su ...
for much of the 15th century, under its period of greatest splendour. Always in good relationships with his neighbours, he was lieutenant of the Duchy of Savoy
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It was created when Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, raised the County of Savoy into a duchy f ...
and the Marquisate of Montferrat
The March (also ''margraviate'' or ''marquisate'') of Montferrat was a frontier march of the Kingdom of Italy during the Middle Ages and a state of the Holy Roman Empire. The margraviate was raised to become the Duchy of Montferrat in 1574.
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for several years.
His neutral policies also gained him international importance. When, in 1458, the Republic of Genoa
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submitted to Charles VII of France
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, Ludovico was chosen as governor of that city, but refused the position.
He was succeeded by his less fortunate son Ludovico II Ludovico II may refer to:
* Ludovico II Gonzaga, capitano del popolo of Mantua (1334–1382)
* Ludovico II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1412–1478)
* Ludovico II of Saluzzo (1438–1504)
See also
* Ludovico I (disambiguation)
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Marriage and children
He married with Isabella Palaiologo de Montferrato (1419–1475), daughter of John Jacob, Marquess of Montferrat, and had 9 children :
* Ludovico II Ludovico II may refer to:
* Ludovico II Gonzaga, capitano del popolo of Mantua (1334–1382)
* Ludovico II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (1412–1478)
* Ludovico II of Saluzzo (1438–1504)
See also
* Ludovico I (disambiguation)
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, his successor.
* Federico, bishop of Carpentras
Carpentras (''Lat.'' dioecesis Carpentoratensis) was a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the Provence region (later part of France), from the later Roman Empire until 1801. It was part of the ecclesiastical province under the Metropolitan ...
* Margarita (died 1485), married Jean de Lescun, Marshal of France
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.
* Juan Jacobo.
* Antonio.
* Carlos Domingo, abbot of Santa Maria di Staffarda
* Blanca (d. 1487), who married Vitaliano II Borromeo (1451 - 1493)
* Amadea.
* Luisa.
References
1405 births
1475 deaths
Marquesses of Saluzzo
Aleramici
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