The Duchy of Mantua was a duchy in Lombardy, northern Italy. Its first duke was Federico II Gonzaga, member of the House of Gonzaga that ruled Mantua since 1328. The following year, the duchy also acquired the March of Montferrat, thanks to the marriage between Gonzaga and Margaret Paleologa, Marchioness of Montferrat.
Vincenzo Ι Gonzaga was the ruler of the Duchy of Mantua and the Duchy of Montferrat from 1587 to 1612.
Obizzo da Polenta was an Italian nobleman and politician and the lord of Ravenna of the da Polenta family.
Guido III da Polenta was a lord of Ravenna, Italy and a member of the da Polenta family.
Bernardino II da Polenta was lord of Ravenna, Italy from 1389 to 1400. He was the son of Guido III da Polenta, grandson of Bernardino I and a member of the da Polenta family. Bernardino's mother was Elisa d'Este, the daughter of Obizzo III d'Este of Ferrara, who gave him numerous children. In 1389, Bernardino and his brothers, Ostasio, Obizzo, Aldobrandino, Azzo and Pietro imprisoned their father and ruled Ravenna. The brothers died in quick succession; allegedly Bernardino was poisoned by his brother Obizzo.
The Marquisate or Margraviate of Mantua was a margraviate centered around the city of Mantua in Lombardy. Ruled by the Gonzaga family from its founding in 1433, it would later be raised to the rank of Duchy in 1530.
Bradamante d'Este, Countess of Maccastorna was an Italian noblewoman from the House of Este.
Vespasiano Colonna was an Italian nobleman and condottiero, a member of the Colonna family.
Jacopo Dal Verme was an Italian condottiero.
The history of Castel Goffredo, an Italian municipality located in Upper Mantua on the border with the province of Brescia, began in the first half of the 3rd millennium B.C., although the present town was founded in Roman times and then developed over the following centuries. In the early medieval period the history of the city was closely linked to the control of the powerful families of the Visconti, Della Scala and the Republic of Venice. However, the city's history remains inextricably linked to the Gonzaga, who ruled it for 400 years. An autonomous fief from 1444 to 1602 under the first marquis Alessandro Gonzaga, it was at this town, in 1511 with Aloisio Gonzaga, that the collateral branches of the "Gonzaga of Castel Goffredo, Castiglione and Solferino" and the minor branch of the "Gonzaga of Castel Goffredo" originated, which died out in 1593. Castel Goffredo became one of the historic Gonzaga capitals, the forerunner of other small capitals from Castiglione to Sabbioneta, due to its urban layout of 1480, equipped with a strict orthogonal grid. With the advent of Napoleon, the town was part of the Cisalpine Republic and, after its fall, of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia; in 1861 it was finally united to the Kingdom of Italy, following its subsequent historical events.
Margherita Malatesta of the House of Malatesta was the wife of Francesco I Gonzaga of the powerful House of Gonzaga, the ruler of Mantua in the north of the Italian peninsula, whom she married in 1393. She acted as regent during the absence of her spouse in 1398-1399.
Paolo Orsini was an Italian condottiero in the service of the Papal States, Ferdinand of Aragon and the Republic of Florence. He was marquess of Atripalda and lord of Mentana, Palombara Sabina and Selci.
The siege of Mirandolain 1321, also known as the siege of Duke Passerino, was a military conflict involving Francesco I Pico, first lord of Mirandola, against Rinaldo dei Bonacolsi, better known as Duke Passerino, lord of Mantua.
Francesco I Pico was an Italian condottiero and politician of the Pico dynasty. He was the first lord and imperial vicar of Mirandola (1311-1321), and also podestà and imperial vicar of Modena (1311-12).
Francesco II Pico della Mirandola was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, belonging to the House of Pico, who in 1354 regained the family domains of Mirandola and Concordia, which had fallen into the hands of the Gonzagas, and was lord of them until his death (1399).
Caterina Anguissola Trivulzio was an Italian noblewoman.
Ferrante or Ferdinando Gonzaga, first marquess of Castiglione was an Italian nobleman and condottiero.
Ormanno di Rinaldo degli Albizzi was an Italian ambassador and military, firstborn of Rinaldo degli Albizzi and his wife Alessandra de' Ricco.
Gian Giordano Orsini, IV Lord of Bracciano was an Italian nobleman and condottiero. He married Felice della Rovere and was the son-in-law of Pope Julius II.
Guido Sforza Gonzaga was an Italian nobleman and prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
