Caterina Anguissola

Caterina Anguissola
Predecessor	Ginevra Rangoni
Successor	Ippolita Maggi
Born	1508 Piacenza
Died	13 December 1550 Castel Goffredo
Buried	Chiesa di Santa Maria del Consorzio, Castel Goffredo
Issue	Alfonso Ferrante Orazio
Father	Gian Giacomo Anguissola
Mother	Angela Radini Tedeschi

Caterina Anguissola Trivulzio (Piacenza, 1508 circa – Castel Goffredo, December 13, 1550) was an Italian noblewoman.

Portrait of Caterina Anguissola

Biography

She was the daughter of Gian Giacomo Anguissola, of the line of Vigolzone, Count of Piacenza, and of Angela Radini Tedeschi.[1][2]

Widow of Count Andrea Borgo (or Burgo) of Cremona (1467–1533), Count of Castelleone,[3] in December 1540, she married Aloisio Gonzaga, Lord of Castel Goffredo. After his death in 1549, Caterina governed, through Giovanni Anguissola,[4] the marquisate of Castel Goffredo, until the investiture of her son Alfonso in 1565. Her beauty was exalted by humanist Lodovico Domenichi in his work La Nobiltà delle Donne.[5]

She died in Castel Goffredo in 1550[6] and was buried in the mausoleum of the Gonzaga family in Chiesa di Santa Maria del Consorzio.[7]

Issue

Aloisio and Caterina had three children:

• Alfonso (1541–1592), second Marquis of Castel Goffredo;
• Ferrante (1544–1586), first Marquis of Castiglione;
• Orazio (1545–1587), Marquis of Solferino.

Lineage

Bernardo Anguissola

Giovanni Carlo Anguissola

Sveva Sanseverino

Gian Giacomo Anguissola

Cristoforo II Torelli di Montechiarugolo

Caterina Torelli d'Aragona Visconti

Ippolita Sanseverino

Caterina Anguissola

Lazzaro I Radini Tedeschi

Daniele II Radini Tedeschi

Ermellina Grassi

Angela Radini Tedeschi

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Caterina Panichi

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References

1. "Gonzaga 2". genealogy.euweb.cz. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
2. Sormani, Matteo Turconi (2015-12-03). Le grandi famiglie di Milano (in Italian). Newton Compton Editori. ISBN 978-88-541-8714-6.
3. "Andrea Borgo, conte di Castelleone". geni_family_tree. 1467. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
4. Marocchi 1990, p. 214.
5. Pompeo Litta, Famiglie celebri d'Italia. Gonzaga di Mantova, Torino, 1835.
6. Marocchi 1990, p. 212.
7. Historian Carlo Gozzi (Raccolta di documenti per la storia patria od Effemeridi storiche patrie, vol. 1) states that she died in Mantua and was buried in the monastery of Santa Paola.

Bibliography

• Marocchi, Massimo (1990). I Gonzaga di Castiglione delle Stiviere. Vicende pubbliche e private del casato di San Luigi (in Italian). Verona.