Bianca Maria Sforza
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Bianca Maria Sforza (April 5, 1472 – December 31, 1510) was the daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the Duke of Milan, and Bona of Savoy. She was born in Milan. In 1493[1], she married Emperor Maximilian I, who had been a widower since the death of his first wife Mary of Burgundy in 1482.
She died at Innsbruck in 1510.She had no children.
A noteworthy portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza by Ambrogio de Predis hangs in the National Gallery of Art of the United States in Washington, D.C.
[edit] External links
- Bianca Maria Sforza at the aeiou Encyclopedia
- Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza at the National Gallery
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hunt, Lynn; Martin, Thomas R.; Rosenwein, Barbara H.; Hsia, R. Po-chia & Smith, Bonnie G. (2007), The Making of the West, vol. II (Second ed.), Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, p. 458, ISBN 978-0-312-43946-0
| Preceded by Eleanor of Portugal |
Empress of the Holy Roman Empire 1508–1510 |
Succeeded by Isabella of Portugal |
| German Queen 1494–1510 |
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| Archduchess consort of Austria Duchess consort of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola 1494–1510 |
