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Name: ferrara

Type: Cluster

Start: 1116 AD

End: 1598 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Ferrara Commune
  • Signoria of Ferrara
  • Duchy of Ferrara
  • Establishment


  • January 1116: Ferrara declares itself Free Commune.
  • Chronology


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    1. War of Ferrara


    Was a war between the Signoria (Lordship) of Ferrara and an alliance of Italian states that included The Republic of Venice and the Papal States.

  • June 1482: Siege of Ficarolo, which capitulated on 29 June, by Venetian forces.
  • July 1482: In 1482, the Republic of Venice, led by Doge Agostino Barbarigo, launched an attack from Ravenna, a city under their control, towards Argenta. The Venetian forces successfully captured Argenta from the southeast during this military campaign.
  • November 1482: The Venetians, led by Doge Agostino Barbarigo and General Roberto Sanseverino, launched a military campaign against Ferrara, ruled by Duke Ercole I d'Este. The siege ended in December 1482 with Ferrara surrendering to Venice.
  • November 1482: Under pressure from the Duke of Milan Lodovico il Moro who feared that the Serenissima could become too powerful and therefore dangerous for the Duchy of Milan, the Pope decided to put an end to the War of Ferrara on his part and on November 28 1482 stipulated a truce, which was followed by peace on December 12.

  • 1.1.Peace of Bagnolo

    Was a treaty that ended the War of Ferrara. Ferrara lost all its territories north ot the Po river to Venice.

  • August 1484: With the peace of Bagnolo, Venice kept almost all the conquered possessions. Ercole I d'Este regained Ariano, Corbola, Adria, Melara, Castelnuovo and Ficarolo, but lost all the other territories north of the Po.

  • 2. Italian Wars


    Were a series of conflicts covering the period between 1494 to 1559, fought mostly in the Italian peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and the Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France, and their Habsburg opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.

    2.1.War of the League of Cambrai

    Was one of the so-called Italian wars.

    2.1.1.First Phase - The league of Cambrai

    Was the first phase of the War of the League of Cambrai, one of the so-called Italian Wars.

    2.1.1.1.French invasion of Venice (War of the League of Cambrai)

    Was a French invasion of the Republic of Venice during the War of the League of Cambrai.

  • June 1509: Alfonso I d'Este. The latter, after having joined the League and having been previously appointed Gonfaloniere of the Church on 19 April, annexed Polesine to his territories.

  • 2.1.1.2.Venetian Counterattack (War of the League of Cambrai)

    Was the Venetian counterattack against the invasion of its territories by Louis XII of France.

  • November 1509: In 1509, these territories were reconquered by the Republic of Venice under the leadership of Doge Leonardo Loredan and Captain-General Bartolomeo d'Alviano. The cities of Bassano, Feltre, Belluno, Cividale, Castel Nuovo, Monselice, Montagnana, and the Polesine region were brought back under Venetian control.
  • January 1510: The city of Adria was conquered by Venice after 1509.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1118: The Estensi of Ferrara were already present in Rovigo in 1117.

  • January 1209: Azzo d'Este, after having defeated Salinguerra Torelli and Ezzelino II da Romano, becomes marquess of Ferrara and Verona. His charge is ratified by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV.

  • January 1209: From 1208, with Azzo VI d'Este, the lordship of the House of Este was established in Ferrara.

  • January 1211: At the behest of Pope Innocent III, Pesaro passed under the control of the Este family.

  • January 1217: From 1216 Pesaro reverted to an independent domain.

  • January 1251: Expansion Ferrara in neighboring territory under the Este family.

  • January 1263: Mastino I della Scala is elected Lord of Verona.

  • January 1289: Ferrara conquers Modena and Reggio Emilia.

  • January 1300: The territory of Porto Viro was divided between the Republic of Venice and the Este family of Ferrara.

  • January 1300: Comacchio entered the territories controlled by the Este starting from 1299.

  • January 1305: Foundation of the County of Rolo.

  • January 1307: The people of Reggio, aided by Gilberto da Correggio, lord of Parma, expelled the Estense family, restoring the citizens' freedoms (1306).

  • January 1396: Rovigo was under the joint rule of Venice and Ferrara between 1395 and 1438. This period marked a time of shared governance between the two powerful city-states in northern Italy.

  • January 1401: Ferrara conquers Adria.

  • August 1403: Reggio Emilia is conquered by Ferrara.

  • June 1404: In May 1404, Ottobuono reconquered and brought Reggio back under the insignia of Giovanni Maria Visconti, from whom it had been taken by the Este family.

  • January 1410: During June Niccolò III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, took possession of the lands of Parma and Reggio with his army, managing to keep them until the times following the killing, in 1412, of Giovanni Maria Visconti and the succession to power in the Duchy of Milan of his brother, Filippo Maria.

  • January 1430: The cities of Garfagnana made an act of dedication to the Este family in 1429.

  • January 1439: Rovigo was under dual Venetian-Ferrara administration until 1438.

  • January 1453: Borso d'Este receives the title of Duke of Modena-Reggio from the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III.

  • January 1472: Borso d'Este receives also the title of Duke of Ferrara from pope Paul II.

  • January 1483: During the events of the Salt War, the Venetians definitively entered Rovigo in 1482, and apart from the interlude of the League of Cambrai (1508-1511) they maintained its dominion for about three centuries.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1599: The Papal States conquer Ferrara and Comacchio.
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