Ferrante II Gonzaga

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Ferrante II Gonzaga (1563 – 5 August 1630) was count and, from 1621, duke of Guastalla.

He was the son of Cesare I Gonzaga, count of Guastalla and duke of Amalfi, and Donna Camilla Borromeo. He succeeded his father in 1575. On 2 July 1621, the County of Guastalla was elevated to a duchy and Ferrante was subsequently deemed a duke.

In 1624 Emperor Ferdinand II appointed Ferrante as general commissar in Italy to reinforce imperial authority.^[1]

Ferrante played a part in the War of the Mantuan Succession when, as a distant Gonzaga cousin, he claimed the Duchy of Mantua after the extinction of the senior male branch of the House of Gonzaga in December 1627. He was nominally supported by Emperor Ferdinand II, who really sought to re-attach the Duchy of Mantua to the Holy Roman Empire. His attempt failed as the French candidate Charles of Nevers became the new duke.

Issue

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Ferrante II married Vittoria Doria (1569–1618), daughter of Giovanni Andrea Doria, and had 4 children:

Cesare II Gonzaga (1592–1632), next Duke of Guastalla, married Donna Isabella Orsini
Vincenzo Gonzaga (1602–1697), Viceroy of Sicily (1677–1678)
Andrea Gonzaga, Count of San Paolo (died 1686), father of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (1692–1714)
Zenobia de Gonzaga y Doria (1588–1618), married in 1607 don Giovanni Tagliavia d'Aragona, Duke of Terranova.

References

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^ Runschke, Florian (2019), "Das Generalkommissariat in Italien von 1624-1632. Auftrag, Arbeit und Akzeptanz der ersten beiden Amtsinhaber". Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken (in German). 99: 214 (online).

Marek, Miroslav. "Genealogy euweb". Genealogy.EU.^{[self-published source]}^{[better source needed]}

Preceded by Cesare I	Count of Guastalla 1575–1630	Succeeded by Cesare II

v t e House of Gonzaga
Generations start from Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga
1st Generation	Ludovico III, Marquis of Mantua Carlo
2nd Generation	Federico I, Marquis of Mantua Gianfrancesco, Count of Sabbioneta Francesco
3rd Generation	Clara, Countess of Montpensier Francesco II, Marquis of Mantua Sigismund Elisabetta, Duchess of Urbino
4th Generation	Eleonora, Duchess of Urbino Federico II, Duke of Mantua Ippolita Gonzaga Ercole Ferrante I, Count of Guastalla Paola
5th Generation	Francesco III, Duke of Mantua Guglielmo, Duke of Mantua Louis, Duke of Nevers Federico, Cardinal Gonzaga Cesare, Duke of Amalfi Francesco, Cardinal Gonzaga Gian Vicenzo, Cardinal Gonzaga
6th Generation	Vincenzo I, Duke of Mantua Margherita, Duchess of Modena Anne Juliana, Archduchess of Austria Charles, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat Ferrante II, Duke of Guastalla
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	Maria, Duchess of Montferrat Charles, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat Eleonora, Holy Roman Empress Vincenzo, Duke of Guastalla Ferrante III, Duke of Guastalla Vespasiano Vincenzo, Viceroy of Valencia
9th Generation	Ferdinando Carlo, Duke of Mantua Eleonora Luisa, Duchess of Rovere Antonio Ferrante, Duke of Guastalla Giuseppe, Duke of Guastalla Anna Isabella, Duchess of Mantua

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