Alessandro Sforza

Alessandro Sforza ( born October 29, 1409 Cotignola, † April 3, 1473 in Pesaro ) was lord of the city of Pesaro.

He was the middle of the three sons of extramarital Muzio Sforza Attendolo from his relationship with Lucia Terziani. He was initially christened Gregorio, but was renamed in honor of Pope Alexander V.. His older brother was Francesco I Sforza, Duke of Milan since 1450, his younger Bosio Sforza, Count of San Fiora. He was condottieri in the service of the Church, in the service of his brother Francesco and in the service of the King of Naples. He was vicar of the church of Ancona since 1434 and Governor of Assisi since the year in 1439. Since the year 1445 he was Vicar of Church and Lord of Pesaro. He was also Duke of Sora, where he lost the fief again immediately. He was also Lord of Gradara and Castel Nuova since 1463rd He was also Lieutenant of the Kingdom of Naples in the year 1463rd

He married on 8 December 1444 his first marriage Costanza da Varano (* around 1428 in Camerino, † July 31, 1447 in Pesaro ), daughter of Pietro Gentile da Varano, papal vicar of Camerino, and Elisabetta Malatesta. He completed his second marriage January 9, 1448 with Sveva di Montefeltro (* 1434 in Urbino, † September 8, 1478 in Pesaro ), daughter of Count Guidantonio da Montefeltro of Urbino and Caterina Colonna, half-sister of Federico da Montefeltro. Sveva separated from her husband and went to the monastery of Santa Chiara in 1457, where she became abbess in 1475.

Alessandro Sforza's children from his first marriage were Battista Sforza (* 1446 in Pesaro, † July 6, 1472 ), the second wife of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino was on 10 February 1460 and Costanzo Sforza I. (* on July 5, 1447 in Pesaro, † July 19, 1483 was in Pesaro ), the rule inherited after his death on Pesaro and finally since 1473 church vicar and Lord of Pesaro. He married in 1475 Camilla ( Covella ) Marzano, daughter of Giovanni Francesco Mariano, Duke of Sessa, and Eleonora d' Aragona. She died in 1490 in the territory of today's Germany and was from 1483 to 1489 in regent for Giovanni Sforza, the illegitimate son of Costanzo from his relationship with Fiora bonuses. He was vicar of church and lord of Pesaro 1483-1500 and 1503-1510. Giovanni married in 1493 his second wife Lucrezia Borgia, the marriage was divorced in the year 1497. Another illegitimate child from his relationship with Fiora bonuses was Galeazzo I ( * 1470 in Pesaro, † April 14, 1515 in Milan ), Lord of Pesaro on July 5, 1512 to October 2, 1512, and Governor of Cremona since. 1513 He married in 1508 Ginevra Bentivoglio (* around 1492 in Bologna, † February 20, 1472 in Milan ), daughter of Ercole, Lord of Bologna, and of Barbara Torelli. Carlo and Ercole were natural descendants Constanzos who died after the year 1475 and of which not much has been handed down historically.

Natural and legetimierte children of Alessandro Sforza were Ginevra (* 1440 in Ancona, † July 16, 1503 in Bologna) and Antonia († 1500 in Brescia). Ginevra was with Sante I. Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna, married in first marriage in 1454 in Bologna and married his second wife in 1464 in Bologna Giovanni II Bentivoglio, Lord of Bologna. Antonia married in 1460 Count Martinengo Ottaviano.