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Name: Monferrato Marquisate

Type: Polity

Start: 968 AD

End: 1533 AD

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Was a Marquisate of the Holy Roman Empire located in northern Italy.

Establishment


  • January 968: Foundation of the March of Monferrato by Aleramo.
  • Chronology


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    1. Lombard Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan and their respective allies, fought in four campaigns in a struggle for hegemony in Northern Italy.

    1.1.Third Lombard War

    Was the third of a series of conflicts between the Republic of Venice and the Duchy of Milan over the hegemony in Northern Italy.

  • June 1433: The Peace of Ferrara was signed in May 1433. The Marquisate of Monferrato, it became a satellite state of the Duchy of Savoy.

  • 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 Cognac

    Was one of the so-called Italian Wars. It was fought between the Habsburg dominions of Charles V —primarily the Holy Roman Empire and Spain— and the League of Cognac, an alliance including the Kingdom of France, Pope Clement VII, the Republic of Venice, the Kingdom of England, the Duchy of Milan, and the Republic of Florence.

    2.1.1.French invasion of Lombardy

    Was the French invasion of Lombardy during the War of the League of Cognac.

  • October 1527: French forces occupy Alessandria.
  • June 1529: In 1529, France suffered a defeat at the hands of the Imperial troops at Landriano, resulting in the loss of control over the Duchy of Milan, along with Lombardy and Liguria.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1126: The Marquisate of Ceva was an ancient aleramic state of medieval Italy, which arose from the dismemberment of the territories that belonged to Bonifacio del Vasto.

  • January 1224: The March of Monferrato conquers Novi.

  • January 1233: Tortona conquers Novi.

  • January 1266: The March of Monferrato conquers Novi.

  • January 1279: The March of Monferrato conquers Acqui.

  • January 1323: Acqui conquered by France.

  • January 1346: The March of Monferrato reconquers Acqui.

  • January 1354: In 1353, the Signoria of Milan, led by the powerful Visconti family, conquered the territory of Novi.

  • January 1432: Milan conquers Acqui.

  • January 1465: The vassalage of Montferrato to Savoy ended in 1464.

  • April 1533: The male line of the Paleologi finally died out in 1533, with the death of Giovanni Giorgio Paleologo, and the marquisate passed to his niece Margherita, who ruled together with her husband Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua.

  • Disestablishment


  • April 1533: The male line of the Paleologi finally died out in 1533, with the death of Giovanni Giorgio Paleologo, and the marquisate passed to his niece Margherita, who ruled together with her husband Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua.
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