{{Infobox noble , name = Margherita Malatesta , title = Consort of the ruler of Mantua , image = Маргарита Малатеста.jpg , caption = , alt = , CoA = 100px , more = no , succession = , reign = 1393-1399 , reign-type = , predecessor =

Agnese Visconti Agnese Visconti also known as Agnes (1363 – 7 February 1391) was a daughter of Bernabò Visconti and his wife Beatrice Regina della Scala. She was consort of Mantua by her marriage to Francesco I Gonzaga. Family Agnese was born in Milan, Italy ...

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Francesco I Gonzaga Portrait of Francesco I Gonzaga Francesco I Gonzaga (1366 – 7 March 1407) was ruler of Mantua from 1382 to 1407. He was also a condottiero. Succeeding his father Ludovico II Gonzaga in 1382, he led a policy of balance between the nearby ...

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Galeotto I Malatesta Galeotto I Malatesta (1299–1385) was an Italian condottiero, who was lord of Rimini, Fano, Ascoli Piceno, Cesena and Fossombrone. Biography Born in Rimini, he was the son of Pandolfo I Malatesta and the brother of Malatesta II Malatesta. In 133 ...

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(1370 – 28 February 1399) was the wife of

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, location=New Haven and London, date=1998, page=125 They were already related through the marriage of his sister, Elisabetta, to her brother, Carlo.{{cite book, title=Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, author1=Giovanni Paccagnini, author2=Maria Figlioli Paccagnini, publisher=Electa, date=1986, location=Mantua Francesco's first wife

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, volume=2, edition=1, author=Christopher Kleinhenz, date=2004 Margherita and Francesco I were the parents of Gianfrancesco I the first

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. Gianfrancesco married

Paola Malatesta {{Infobox noble , name = Paola Agnese Malatesta , title = Marquesa of Mantua , image = File:Paola Malatesta.jpg , caption = , alt = , CoA = 100px , more ...

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, location=Oxford, date=2015, page=142 The Gonzaga family struck

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s of Margherita.{{cite journal, journal=American Journal of Numismatics, date=1888, page=35, author=H. R. Storer, title=The Medals of St. Charles Borromeo, volume=23, number=2 Margherita brought the hereditary disease of

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to the Gonzagas, which manifested itself periodically in the lords of Mantua until the 16th century. She died on February 28, 1399 and was interred in Church of San Francesco in Mantua, in the mausoleum of the Gonzagas.

Issue

Francesco and Margherita had two children: * Gianfrancesco (1395–1444), his successor and the marquis of Mantua * Susanna, who died young

Gallery

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, Palazzo Ducale, tomb effigy of Margherita Malatesta

References

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Bibliography

* {{cite book, author=Adelaide, Murgia, title=I Gonzaga, year=1972, publisher=Mondadori, place=Milan * {{cite book, author=Giancarlo, Malacarne, title=Gonzaga, Genealogie di una dinastia, date=2010, place=Modena * {{cite book , last=Litta Biumi , first=Pompeo , authorlink=Pompeo Litta Biumi , title=Famiglie celebri italiane , location=Milano , publisher=Luciano Basadonna Editore , url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&collapsing=disabled&rk=21459;2&query=dc.relation%20all%20%22cb41249636m%22 , language=it * {{cite book, title=I ritratti gonzagheschi della collezione di Ambras, date=1980, place=Mantua, editor=Giuseppe Amadei, editor2=Ercolano Marani

External links

*{{cite web, url=http://www.geneall.net/I/per_page.php?id=52956, title=Margherita Malatesti, accessdate=11 Dec 2007, publisher=Geneall.it {{DEFAULTSORT:Malatesta, Margherita 1370 births 1399 deaths Nobility of Mantua

Margherita Margherita is an Italian feminine given name. It also is a surname. As a word, in Italian it means " daisy". Given name As a name, it may refer to: *Margherita Aldobrandini (1588–1646), Duchess consort of Parma *Margherita de' Medici (1612 ...

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