House of Sforza - Sforza Family Tree

Sforza Family Tree

  • Muzio Sforza with mistress Lucia da Torsano had 7 illegitimate sons
    • son Francesco I Sforza married Bianca Maria Visconti
      • son Galeazzo Maria Sforza mistress Lucrezia Landriani
        • daughter Bianca Maria (1472–1510), second wife of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I
        • son Gian Galeazzo(1469–1494), married Isabella of Naples
          • son Francesco (II), nominally duke under the regency of Ludovico Maria
          • daughter Bona (1494–1557), second wife of King Sigismund I of Poland
        • illegitimate daughter Caterina Sforza married Giovanni de' Medici il Popolano
      • son Ludovico il Moro (the Moor) (1451–1508)
        • son Ercole Massimiliano
        • son Francesco II (III) Maria
        • illegitimate son Giovanni Paolo I (1497–1535), marquess of Caravaggio
      • son Ascanio (1444–1505), Cardinal
      • daughter Ippolita Maria (1446–1484), married king of Alfonso II d'Aragon of Naples
    • son Alessandro, first lord of Pesaro
      • son Costanzo I
      • son Galeazzo, last Sforza ruler of Pesaro
      • son Giovanni (1466–1510), first husband of Lucrezia Borgia
        • son Costanzo II (Giovanni Maria)
    • Bosio (count of Cotignola, lord of Castell'Arquato)

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