Aloisio Gonzaga
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| name = Aloisio Gonzaga
| image = Ritratto di Aloisio Gonzaga 1494-1549.jpg
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| caption = Portrait of Aoisio Gonzaga, unknown 16th century artist, Ambras Collection, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
| succession = Marquis of Castel Goffredo, Castiglione, Solferino
| reign = 1511–1549
| predecessor = Ludovico Gonzaga (bishop of Mantua)
| successor = Alfonso Gonzaga
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| house = Gonzaga
| father = Rodolfo Gonzaga
| mother = Caterina Pico
| spouse = Ginevra Rangoni, Caterina Anguissola
| issue = Alfonso Gonzaga
Ferrante Gonzaga
Orazio Gonzaga
| birth_date = {{birth_date|1494|4|20|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Luzzara
| death_date = {{death date and age|1549|7|19|1494|4|20|df=yes}}
| death_place = Castel Goffredo
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Aloisio Gonzaga (20{{nbsp}}April 1494{{snd}}19{{nbsp}}July 1549) was an Italian condottiero.
Early life
Usually known as Aloisio, other sources call him Aluigi, Loysio, Luigi or Luigi Alessandro. He was the sixth son of another condottiero, Rodolfo Gonzaga and his wife Caterina Pico.
Biography
The lord of Castel Goffredo, Castiglione and Solferino, he was the founder of two cadet branches of the House of Gonzaga known as the "Castel Goffredo, Castiglione and Solferino Gonzagas" and "Castel Goffredo Gonzagas";{{in lang|it}} Roggero Roggeri, Leandro Ventura, I Gonzaga delle nebbie. Storia di una dinastia cadetta nelle terre tra Oglio e Po, Cinisello Balsamo, 2008.{{in lang|it}} Piero Gualtierotti, Il Tartarello, nº 4, dicembre 1978, p. 8. both branches went extinct in 1593. He backed the Holy Roman Empire and its leader Charles V; Charles visited him at his residence in 1543.
He was one of the most important figures in the history of Castel Goffredo. He made it capital of his small Marquisate of Castel GoffredoMarocchi, page 50.Gualtierotti, page 55. and produced most of its town planning.Gozzi, page 34.Scardovelli, page 9.
Personal life
He was married to Caterina Anguissola and had three sons:
- Alfonso (1541–1592), second Marquis of Castel Goffredo; married in 1568 to Ippolita Maggi
- Caterina di Gonzaga-Castelgoffredo; married Carlo Emanuele Teodore Trivulzio, Conte di Melzo (d. 1605)
- Ippolita Trivulzio; married Honoré II, Prince of Monaco
- Ferrante (1544–1586), first Marquis of Castiglione; married Marta Tana di Santena da Chieri (1550-1605); had issue
- Orazio (1545–1587), Marquis of Solferino.
References
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Bibliography
- {{in lang|it}} Costante Berselli, Castelgoffredo nella storia, Mantova, 1978.
- {{in lang|it}} Francesco Bonfiglio, Notizie storiche di Castelgoffredo, 2ª ed., Mantova, 2005, {{ISBN|88-7495-163-9}}.
- {{in lang|it}} Carlo Gozzi, Raccolta di documenti per la storia patria od Effemeridi storiche patrie, Tomo II, Mantova, 2003, {{ISBN|88-7495-059-4}}.
- {{in lang|it}} Massimo Marocchi, I Gonzaga di Castiglione delle Stiviere. Vicende pubbliche e private del casato di San Luigi, Verona, 1990.
- {{in lang|it}} Piero Gualtierotti, Castel Goffredo dalle origini ai Gonzaga, 2008, Mantova.
- {{in lang|it}} Giovanni Scardovelli, Luigi, Alfonso e Rodolfo Gonzaga marchesi di Castelgoffredo, Bologna, 1890.
- {{in lang|it}} Massimo Telò, Aloisio Gonzaga. Un principe nella Castel Goffredo del '500, Roma, 2021.
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Category:16th-century condottieri