Giuseppe Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla

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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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Ancestors of Giuseppe Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla

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| 8\. Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#24)|

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| 17\. Camilla Borromeo

| 4\. Andrea Gonzaga, Count of San Paolo|

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| 18\. Giannettino Doria

| 9\. Vittoria Doria (=#25)|

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| 19\. Ginetta Centurione

| 2\. Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla|

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| 10. ?, Marquis de Fusara|

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| 5\. Laura Crispano|

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| 1\. Giuseppe Gonzaga|
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| 24\. Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#8)

| 12\. Cesare II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla|

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| 25\. Vittoria Doria (=#9)

| 6\. Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla|

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| 26\. Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano

| 13\. Isabella Orsini|

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| 27\. Flavia Damasceni-Peretti

| 3\. Maria Vittoria Gonzaga|

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| 28\. Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena

| 14\. Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena|

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| 29\. Virginia de' Medici

| 7\. Margarete d'Este|

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| 30\. Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy

| 15\. Isabella of Savoy|

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| 31\. Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain

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## Sources[edit]

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

Preceded by

Antonio Ferrante

|  Duke of Guastalla
1729–1746  | Succeeded by

To Austria and then finally to the Duchy of Parma (1748)

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House of Gonzaga

Generations start from Francesco I Gonzaga

1st Generation|

* Ludovico III, Marquis of Mantua
* Carlo

2nd Generation|

* Federico I, Marquess of Mantua
* Gianfrancesco, Count of Sabbioneta
* Francesco

3rd Generation|

* Clara, Countess of Montpensier
* Francesco II, Marquess 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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Dukes of Guastalla

* Ferrante II (1621-1630)
* Cesare II (1630-1632)
* Ferrante III (1632–1678)
* Vincenzo (1692-1714)
* Antonio Ferrante (1714–1729)
* Giuseppe (1729–1746)

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* Poland

People|

* Italian People
* Deutsche Biographie

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