Orazio Farnese, Duke of Castro (

Valentano 250px, View of Valentano. Valentano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Viterbo, in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is from the provincial capital, Viterbo. left, 220px, Rocca Farnese in Valentano. The placename is of uncertain ori ...

, February 1532 –

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, 18 July 1553) was the third Duke of Castro.

Biography

He was the son of

Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma Pier Luigi Farnese (19 November 1503 – 10 September 1547) was the first Duke of Castro from 1537 to 1545 and the first Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1545 to 1547. He was the illegitimate son of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (who later became ...

, and his wife, Gerolama Orsini. He married

Diane de France Diane de France, ''suo jure'' Duchess of Angoulême (25 July 1538 – 11 January 1619) was the illegitimate daughter of Henry II of France and his Italian lover Filippa Duci. She played an important political role during the French Wars of R ...

on 14 February 1552. Orazio was at

when

Emperor Charles V Charles V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain (as Charles I) from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy (as Charles II) fr ...

placed the city under siege. Orazio was killed 16 July 1553. Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, Vol. IV, (The American Philosophical Society, 1984), 596, note119.

References

Bibliography

* Edoardo del Vecchio, ''I Farnese'', Istituto di Studi Romani Editore, 1972. * Emilio Nasalli Rocca, I Farnese, Milano, Dall'Oglio, 1969. 1532 births 1553 deaths Orazio Orazio {{Italy-noble-stub