Ludovico II of Saluzzo

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Ludovico II was marquis (margrave) of Saluzzo from 1475 until his death in 1503.

Son of Ludovico I of Saluzzo and Isabella of Monferrat, he succeeded him as marquis upon the latter's death in 1475. In 1481 he married his cousin, Giovanna of Monferrat. Two years after her death in 1490, he remarried, to Marguerite of Foix.

During the Second Italian War, Ludovico supported Charles VIII of France in his invasion of Italy, culminating in Ludovico's defeat at the Battle of Garigliano in 1503.

Ludovico was succeeded by his and Marguerite's eldest child, Michele Antonio I of Saluzzo, in 1504.