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    Ercole II d'Este (4 April 1508 – 3 October 1559) was Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio from 1534 to 1559. He was the eldest son of Alfonso I d'Este and...
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    He was a member of the House of Este. Alfonso was the elder son of Ercole II d'Este and Renée de France, the daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne of...
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  • Ercole d'Este may refer to: Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Duke of Modena and Reggio (r. 1471–1505) Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Duke of...
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    League of Cambrai. He was the son of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Eleanor of Naples and became duke on Ercole's death in January 1505. In the first...
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    Ercole III d'Este (Ercole Rinaldo; 22 November 1727 – 14 October 1803) was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1780 to 1796, and later of Breisgau (not resident)...
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    Ercole I d'Este KG (English: Hercules I; 26 October 1431 – 25 January 1505) was Duke of Ferrara from 1471 until 1505. He was a member of the House of...
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    of Ferrara from 31 October 1534 until 3 October 1559 by marriage to Ercole II d'Este, grandson of Pope Alexander VI. She was the younger surviving child...
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    Eleonora d'Este (19 June 1537, – 19 February 1581) was a Ferrarese noblewoman. She was the fourth daughter of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and his...
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  • Ercole, Italian version of Hercules, can refer to: Ercole (name), list of people with the name Ercole I d'Este (1431–1505), Duke of Ferrara Ercole II...
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    first child by d'Este; Alessandro d'Este (1505–1505); Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (5 April 1508 – 3 October 1559); Ippolito II d'Este (25 August 1509...
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    Luigi d'Este (21 December 1538 – 30 December 1586) was an Italian Catholic cardinal, the second son of the five children of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Modena...
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    December 1535, Lucrezia was the third child and second daughter of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Renée of France, Duchess of Chartres, Countess...
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  • Maria d'Este. As was customary for a younger son, he was given a military education. After spending time in France, his brother Ercole II d'Este invited...
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    eldest son of François, Duke of Guise, and Anna d'Este. His maternal grandparents were Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, and Renée of France. Through...
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    His elder brother, Ercole II d'Este, succeeded his father as Duke of Ferrara in 1534. Through their mother, Ippolito and Ercole were grandsons of Pope Alexander...
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    of Nemours and Genevois. Anna d'Este was born on 16 November 1531, the eldest daughter of the Duke of Ferrara Ercole II (son of Lucrezia Borgia and grandson...
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    II della Rovere of Urbino in audience, and on 29 April, Ercole II d'Este, duke of Ferrara. He also gave audience to four cardinals, Farnese, D'Este,...
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    1514, he would begin three decades of service for dukes Alfonso I and Ercole II d'Este, becoming principal court artist. Dosso worked frequently with his...
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    return to Urbino. In 1570 Francesco Maria married Lucrezia d'Este, a daughter of Ercole II d'Este. His father died only a few years later, in 1574, and Francesco...
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    this conclusion, but in 1885 Adolfo Venturi cited a letter sent to Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara in March 1556 by Anguissola's father with two paintings...
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    Duarte Pinhel, as translator), and was dedicated to Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. Ercole's wife Renée of France was a Protestant and a daughter...
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  • Lucrezia d'Este may refer to: Lucrezia d'Este (daughter of Ercole I) [it] (born c. 1477), daughter of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, married Annibale II Bentivoglio...
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    Felicitas d'Este (6 October 1726 – 30 April 1754) married Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre and had issue. Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena...
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    House of Este (redirect from D'Este)
    Mantua. Borso d'Este, the first Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio Leonello d'Este, by Pisanello Ercole I d'Este Isabella d'Este, by Titian Ercole I's successor...
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    between Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (who held a pro-French position), and King Philip II of Spain, it was decided that Alfonso d'Este, Hereditary...
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    Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was the Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural...
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  • music Eleonora d'Este (1537–1581), daughter of Ercole II d'Este and Renata di Francia Eleonora d'Este (1561–1637), daughter of Alfonso d'Este, marquess of...
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  • France beginning in 1499, and as the governess for the children of Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. She and Anne became best friends and, as she was...
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    the eldest child of Ercole Rinaldo d'Este, heir to the Duchy of Modena and Reggio (and future Duke, in 1780, under the name of Ercole III), and Maria Teresa...
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    Federico II, Duke of Mantua, born 1500, died 1540. First betrothed to Maria Palaeologina but later married her sister Margaret Palaeologina Ercole Gonzaga...
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