Giuseppe Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla

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Portrait of Giuseppe Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla.

Giuseppe Gonzaga (20 March 1690 – 16 August 1746) was the last Duke of Guastalla.

He was the second son of Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla and Maria Vittoria Gonzaga, and was mentally handicapped.
When his elder brother Duke Antonio Ferrante died in an accident in 1729, Giuseppe was the only remaining male member of the Gonzaga family, so he became Duke.

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-La-Chapelle, Guastalla was ceded to the Spanish, together with the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, with which it was merged.

Ancestry

Family of Giuseppe Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16. Cesare I Gonzaga, Count of Guastalla
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8. Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#24)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17. Camilla Borromeo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4. Andrea Gonzaga, Count of San Paolo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18. Giannettino Doria
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9. Vittoria Doria (=#25)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19. Ginetta Centurione
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2. Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10. ?, Marquis de Fusara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5. Laura Crispano
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Giuseppe Gonzaga
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24. Ferrante II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla (=#8)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12. Cesare II Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25. Vittoria Doria (=#9)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6. Ferrante III Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 26. Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13. Isabella Orsini
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 27. Flavia Damasceni-Peretti
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3. Maria Vittoria Gonzaga
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 28. Cesare d'Este, Duke of Modena
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14. Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 29. Virginia de' Medici
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7. Margarete d'Este
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30. Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15. Isabella of Savoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31. Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sources

Preceded by Duke of Guastalla
1729–1746		 Succeeded by
To Austria and the Duchy of Parma
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