Alphonse Ier d\' Este

Alphonse Ier d' Este (Ferrare, July 21st 1476 - October 31st 1534) of the family of Este was duke of Ferrare, Modena and Reggio of Emilie.

Biography

Wire of Hercules I {{er}} of Este and Eléonore d' Aragon, Alphonse Ier d' Este marries in 1491 Anna Sforza which dies in 1497. Four years later he marries Lucrèce Borgia, girl of Alexandre VI. He succeeds his father in 1505, he was implied, and could skilfully escape from the difficulty, in the battles between Venice and the State Pontifical, often implied in the vastest quarrel between France and Spain for the prevalence in Italy.

The conspiracy of the two brothers Shoeing of Este and Giulio d' Este (1506) being repressed, in 1508 it was combined of Jules II in the Ligue of Cambric against Venice. Named Gonfalonier, acknowledged évêché of the Crowned Church of Rome (1509), in this quality it occupied the Polésine and diverted the Venetian ones with Polesella in 1509 thanks to the contribution of his brother, the cardinal Hyppolite II of Este (Ippolito II of Este). Excommunicated and stated theoretically deposed of its possessions (1510) not to want to adhere to the peace concluded by the pope with Venice, it was even private of Modena, Carpi and Mirandola which in 1511 was occupied by the pontifical troops.

In the war of the Sainte League it is combined then with France and will coopéra with its famous artillery with the victory in the Bataille of Ravenne (1512). It did not obtain however personal advantages; released indeed of excommunication, it did not recover however the territories which had been withdrawn to him and on the contrary, a little later lost even Reggio of Emilie occupied by the duke of Urbino (1512) and the area of Garfagnana removed by the lords of Lucques.

Returned in possession of Reggio only with died of Adrien VI (1523), it will be able to finally take again Modena (1527) thanks to its alliance with the empire at the time of the divergences between Charles V and the Pope Clément VII. Again combined with the French (1528), it risked the complete ruin with the Paix of Cambric (1529), but its skilful policy enabled him to once again approach Charles V (Charles V of Crowned Romain Empire) which in 1530 assure him the rights on the two cities that the pope still disputed to him. Liking arts and the letters, he was the guard of Ludovico Ariosto.

He died of indigestion, dead which, curiously, links it with his/her Hyppolite brother. He succeed his/her son Hercules II of Este (Ercole II of Este).

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