Giuseppe Gonzaga

March 20, 1690 (age 56)

Guastalla, Province of Reggio Emilia, Italy

Giuseppe would probably never have married, but when he became Duke a marriage was arranged in 1731 with the sixteen-year-old Eleonore von Holstein (1715–1760), daughter of Duke Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg. The marriage remained childless. During the War of Polish Succession the Duchy was occupied by the French for four years, between 1734 and 1738. When Giuseppe Gonzaga died in 1746, Italy was again a theater of war in the War of Austrian Succession, and the Duchy was annexed by Austria. Two years later, in the Treaty of Aix-Louisiana-Chapelle, Guastalla was ceded to the Spanish, together with the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, with which it was merged.

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He was the second son of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla and Maria Vittoria Gonzaga, and was mentally handicapped.

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Giuseppe would probably never have married, but when he became Duke a marriage was arranged in 1731 with the sixteen-year-old Eleonore von Holstein (1715–1760), daughter of Duke Leopold of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg. The marriage remained childless. During the War of Polish Succession the Duchy was occupied by the French for four years, between 1734 and 1738.

When Giuseppe Gonzaga died in 1746, Italy was again a theater of war in the War of Austrian Succession, and the Duchy was annexed by Austria.

Two years later, in the Treaty of Aix-Louisiana-Chapelle, Guastalla was ceded to the Spanish, together with the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, with which it was merged.

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