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unusual facts about Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza



Alessandro Farnese

Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma (1635–1689), governor of the Habsburg Netherlands

Ancient Diocese of Vence

Among others are: St. Veranus, son of St. Eucherius, Archbishop of Lyons and a monk of Lérins, bishop before 451 and at least until 465; St. Lambert, first a Benedictine monk (died 1154); Alessandro Farnese (1505–11).

Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma

Antonio Farnese (29 May 1679 – 20 January 1731) was the eighth and ultimate Farnese Duke of Parma and Piacenza.

Duke Otto Henry of Brunswick-Harburg

In 1590, he led the cavalry of the Duke Alessandro Farnese in the Eighty Years' War and showed great courage in the battle of Ivry on 14 March 1590.

Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma

Francesco Farnese (19 May 1678 – 26 May 1727) reigned as the seventh and penultimate Farnese Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1694 until his death.

Giovanni Bernardino Pollinari

He also painted the sipario (stage curtain) of the Teatro Filodrammatico di Piacenza, depicting: Alessandro Farnese receives ambassadors from the city during the Siege of Antwerp completed by commission of the società d'incoraggiamento di Parma.

Giustiniani

Pompeo Giustiniani (1569–1616), a native of Corsica, who served in the Low Countries under Alessandro Farnese and Ambrogio Spinola, 1st Marquis of the Balbases, where he lost an arm, and, from the artificial substitute which he wore, came to be known by the sobriquet Bras de Fer.

Pope Julius III

The Farnese faction, loyal to the family of previous Pope, supported the election Paul III's grandson, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, and also the family's claim to the Duchy of Parma, which was contested with the Emperor Charles V.

Vachellia farnesiana

The taxon name farnesiana is specially named after Odoardo Farnese (1573–1626) of the notable Italian Farnese family which, after 1550, under the patronage of cardinal Alessandro Farnese, maintained some of the first private European botanical gardens in Rome, in the 16th and 17th centuries.


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