Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

Ferdinando Gonzaga ( born April 26, 1587 Mantua, † October 29, 1626 ibid ) was the second son of Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga of Mantua and Montferrat and provided as such for the service in the Catholic Church.

It was planned already in 1607, with 20 years, Cardinal, but then had, as his older brother Francesco IV Gonzaga already died in late 1612 without male heirs, to give up his ecclesiastical offices. He succeeds in Mantua and Montferrat, married in 1616 Camilla Faa, of which he had but divorced in the year afterwards. On February 16, 1617 closed with Caterina de ' Medici ( * May 2, 1593, † April 17, 1629 ), the daughter of Grand Duke Ferdinando I of Tuscany, his second marriage, but remained childless.

As Ferdinando died in 1626 at the age of 39 years, stood as heir only his brother Vincenzo II Gonzaga available, which now draw the same consequences as Ferdinando had thirteen years before.