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- BIOGRAPHY
Margarita de Monferrato was born on 11 August 1510, daughter of Guillaume VIII-IX-XI Palaiologos, marchese de Monferrato and Anne d'Alençon, dame de La Guerche.
Federico II Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, had been engaged to Louise Borgia, dame de Chalus, twice to Margarita's elder sister Maria de Monferrato, and then to Giulia of Aragon. However it was Margarita de Monferrato who on 16 November 1531 married Federico II. They became the parents of seven children of whom two sons and a daughter would have progeny.
When her brother Boniface V, marchese de Monferrato, died in 1530, Margarita became the heiress of her family, and brought the margravate, soon to be a duchy also, to Mantua with her marriage to Federico. Federico died on 28 June 1540 at Marmirolo. Margarita died on 28 December 1566.
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