Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma

Pier Luigi Farnese (* November 19, 1503 in Rome, † September 10, 1547 in Piacenza) was the illegitimate son of Alessandro Farnese, the future Pope Paul III, and first Duke of Parma and Piacenza..

Life

After Pier Luigi's father had been elected pope in 1534, this 1537 appointed him Gonfaloniere of the Catholic Church, made ​​him the Duke of Castro and paid him generously with possessions. Pier Luigi Farnese was acting as mediator between Pope and Emperor Charles V in the sequence, so the 1538 appointed him Marquis of Novara. Another proof of the papal nepotism was the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, the him - despite political conflicts with his father - in 1545 awarded hereditary, whereupon he immediately passed on the Duchy of Castro to his third son Orazio to also supply this (the oldest, Alessandro Farnese, was in 1534, became the year of the election of his grandfather, as a 14 year old cardinal, the second, Ottavio Farnese, provided as a heritage of Parma and Piacenza).

Pier Luigi's attempt to take the Duchy of Parma in possession ended with his assassination by the regional nobility in Piacenza, which was occupied two days after the fact, by imperial troops. He was succeeded as planned to his second son Ottavio, who took the fight to the Duchy seamlessly.

Marriage and issue

Pier Luigi Farnese married 1519 Gerolama Orsini († 1570 ), daughter of Luigi Orsini, by whom he had at least five children:

  • Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), Cardinal Dean
  • Ottavio Farnese (1524-1586), Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1547, Duke of Castro in 1553 ∞ Margaret of Parma ( 1522-1586 ), extramarital, recognized daughter of Emperor Charles V / I. from Spain
  • Orazio Farnese († July 18, 1553, Duke of Castro 1545 ) ∞ February 13, 1552 Diane (* 1538, † January 11, 1619 ), extramarital daughter of King Henry II of France
  • Ranuccio Farnese ( born August 11, 1530 † 1565), Cardinal
  • Vittoria Farnese (1521-1602) ∞ Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1513-1574)
  • Farnese
  • Duke ( Castro)
  • Duke (Parma)
  • Duke (Piacenza )
  • Born in 1503
  • Died in 1547
  • Man
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