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 –
Hesdin
Hesdin (; ) is a former Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in northern France. On 1 January 2025, it was merged into the new commune of Hesdin-la-Forêt.
Geography
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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, and his wife,
Gerolama Orsini. He married
Diane de France on 14 February 1552. Orazio was at
Hesdin
Hesdin (; ) is a former Communes of France, commune in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France, department in northern France. On 1 January 2025, it was merged into the new commune of Hesdin-la-Forêt.
Geography
The N39, from Arras to Montreuil ...
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
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