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Francesco Zucchi , Portrait of Giuseppe Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla.
Giuseppe Gonzaga (20 March 1690 – 16 August 1746) was the last reigning
Duke of Guastalla and a member of the
House of Gonzaga .
Early life
He was the second son of
Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla and his second wife, Princess Maria Vittoria Gonzaga of Guastalla (1659-1707). Giuseppe was mentally disabled.[
citation needed ]
When his elder brother Duke
Antonio Ferrante died in an accident in 1729, Giuseppe was the only remaining male member of the Gonzaga family, so he became duke.
Marriage
Giuseppe would probably never have married, but when he became duke a marriage was arranged in 1731 with the sixteen-year-old Princess Eleonore von
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (1715–1760), daughter of
Leopold, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg and his wife, Princess Maria Elisabeth of
Liechtenstein (1683-1744). She was also granddaughter of Duchess
Karolina of Legnica-Brieg . The marriage remained childless.
Duchy
During the
War of Polish Succession the Duchy was occupied by the French for four years, between 1734 and 1738.
When Giuseppe Gonzaga died in 1746, Italy was again a
theater of war in the
War of Austrian Succession , and the Duchy was annexed by Austria.
Two years later, in the
Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle , Guastalla was ceded to the Spanish, together with the
Duchy of Parma and Piacenza , with which it was merged.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Giuseppe Maria Gonzaga 16.
Cesare I Gonzaga, Count of Guastalla 8.
Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#24) 17. Camilla
Borromeo 4. Andrea
Gonzaga , Count of San Paolo 18. Giannettino
Doria 9. Vittoria
Doria (=#25) 19. Ginetta
Centurione 2.
Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla 10. ?, Marquis de Fusara 5. Laura Crispano 1. Giuseppe Gonzaga 24.
Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#8) 12.
Cesare II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla 25. Vittoria
Doria (=#9) 6.
Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla 26.
Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano 13. Isabella
Orsini 27.
Flavia Damasceni-Peretti 3. Maria Vittoria Gonzaga 28.
Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena 14.
Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena 29.
Virginia de' Medici 7. Margarete
d'Este 30.
Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy 15.
Isabella of Savoy 31.
Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain
Sources
Preceded by
Duke of Guastalla 1729–1746
Succeeded byTo Austria and then finally to the Duchy of Parma (1748)
1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation 4th Generation 5th Generation 6th Generation 7th Generation
Francesco IV, Duke of Mantua
Ferdinando, Duke of Mantua
Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine
Vincenzo II, Duke of Mantua
Eleonora, Holy Roman Empress
Charles, Duke of Nevers
Marie Louise, Queen of Poland
Anne, Countess Palatine of Simmern
Cesare II, Duke of Guastalla
Vincenzo, Viceroy of Sicily
Andrea, Count of San Paolo
8th Generation 9th Generation
International National People