Eleanor de' Medici, Italian noblewoman (born 1567)

Eleanor de' Medici

Duchess of Mantua

Eleanor de' Medici was a Duchess of Mantua by marriage to Vincenzo I Gonzaga. She served as regent of Mantua 1595, 1597 and 1601, when Vincenzo served in the Austrian campaign in Hungary, and in 1602, when he left for Flanders for medical treatment. She was a daughter of…