In 1465 he married Marguerite di Saluzzo (died after 1478), daughter of Ludovico I, Marquess of Saluzzo.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | Marquess | Ludovico Ariosto | Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings | Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley | Marquess of Bute | Ludovico Einaudi | Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire | James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie | David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter | Saluzzo | Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster | Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey | Frederick Hervey, 8th Marquess of Bristol | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol | Robert Wynn Carrington, 1st Marquess of Lincolnshire | Marquess of Rockingham | Marquess of Lansdowne | marquess | Ludovico Carracci | John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu | Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon | Paul Marquess | Marquess of Milford Haven | Marquess of Anglesey | Marquess of Ailsa | John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair | William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton |
While Duke of savoy he also held the subsidiary titles of Marquess of Saluzzo, count of Aosta, Moriana and Nice, and claimant King of Jerusalem.
Ludovico I Gonzaga (1268–1360), better known as Luigi, the first Capitano del Popolo ('Captain of the People') of Mantua and Imperial Vicar
When, in 1458, the Republic of Genoa submitted to Charles VII of France, Ludovico was chosen as governor of that city, but refused the position.