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GONZAGA

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 235 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GONZAGA , an See also:

Italian princely See also:family named after the See also:town where it probably had its origin. Its known See also:history begins with the 13th See also:century, when See also:Luigi I. (1267—136o), after fierce struggles supplanted his See also:brother-in-See also:law Rinaldo (nicknamed Passerino) Bonacolsi as See also:lord of See also:Mantua in See also:August 1328, with the See also:title of See also:captain-See also:general, and afterwards of See also:vicar-general of the See also:empire, adding the designation of See also:count of See also:Mirandola and See also:Concordia, which See also:fief the Gonzagas held from 1328 to 1354. In See also:July 1335 his son Guido, with the help of Filippino and Feltrino Gonzaga, wrested Reggio from the Scaligeri and held it until 1371. Luigi was succeeded by Guido (d. 1369); the latter's son Luigi II. came next in See also:succession (d. 1382), and then Giovan See also:Francesco I. (d. 1407), who, although at one See also:time allied with the treacherous Gian Galeazzo See also:Visconti, incurred the latter's enmity and all but lost his estates and his See also:life in consequence; eventually he joined the Florentines and Bolognese, enemies of Visconti. He promoted See also:commerce and wisely See also:developed the prosperity of his dominions. His son Giovan Francesco II. (d.

1444) succeeded him under the regency of his See also:

uncle Carlo Malatesta and the See also:protection of the Venetians.

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