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Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan (born 1392)

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Filippo Maria Visconti

Duke of Milan (1392–1447)

Filippo Maria Visconti was the duke of Milan from 1412 to 1447. Reports stated that he was "paranoid", but "shrewd as a ruler." He went to war in the 1420s with Romagna, Florence, and Venice in the Wars in Lombardy but was eventually forced to surrender under Pope Martin V. He…
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Duchy of Milan

Former duchy in Italy (1395–1447; 1450–1796)

The Duchy of Milan was a state in Northern Italy, created in 1395 by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, then the lord of Milan, and a member of the important Visconti family, which had been ruling the city since 1277. At that time, it included twenty-six towns and the wide rural area of…
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