Maximilian Sforza

Massimiliano Sforza, c.1496–1499

Maximilian (Massimiliano) Sforza (25 January 1493 – 4 June 1530) was a Duke of Milan from the Sforza family, the son of Lodovico Sforza. He ruled 1512–1515, between the occupations of Louis XII of France (1500–1512), and Francis I of France in 1515. After the French victory at the Battle of Marignano, Massimiliano was imprisoned by the returning French troops. He waived his rights to Milan for the sum of 30,000 ducats and continued to live in France.

When he was three his father tried to arrange a marriage between him and Mary Tudor, the younger daughter of King Henry VII of England. However, Henry VII rejected the proposal as Massimiliano's father was hoping that Henry would help him against the French, which was not in Henry's interest.

Ancestors

Maximilian Sforza's ancestors in three generations

									Muzio Sforza
						Francesco I Sforza
									Lucia da Torsano
			Ludovico Sforza
									Filippo Maria Visconti
						Bianca Maria Visconti
									Agnese del Maino
Maximilian Sforza
									Niccolò III d'Este
						Ercole d'Este I
									Ricciarda da Saluzzo
			Beatrice d'Este
									Ferdinand I of Naples
						Eleanor of Naples
									Isabella of Clermont

See also

• Italian Wars

References

• Alexander, J. J. G., Italian Renaissance Illuminations, (1978) ISBN 9780701122706
• Frieda, Leonie. The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (2012)
• Perry, Maria, Sisters to King Henry VIII, (1998)

Italian nobility
Preceded by Louis XII of France	Duke of Milan 1512–1515	Succeeded by Francis I of France