Polissena Ruffo (1400

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- 17 July 1420) was a princess of

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. Princess of

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, countess of Corigliano and Montalto was the daughter of

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and Ceccarella Sanseverino. She married

Francesco Sforza Francesco I Sforza (; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiero who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death. In the 1420s, he participated in the War of L'A ...

(founder of the

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dynasty in Milan) in 1418 as his first wife.

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