Bernabò Visconti

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Bernabò Visconti (1319-1385) was an Italian soldier and statesman, lord of Milan in the 14th century.

Bernabò married Regina della Scala of Verona and forged both a political and aesthetic alliance between the two cities. His intrigues and ambitions kept him at war almost continuously with Pope Urban V (who briefly excommunicated him in 1363), the Florentines, Venice and Savoy until he was deposed by his nephew Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1385. An equestrian statue of Bernabo Visconti was made in 1363 by Bonino da Campione and now stands in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan.

His daughter Thadea Visconti married Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria. She was mother to Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria and Isabeau of Bavaria. His other daughter Maddalena Visconti married Frederick, Duke of Bavaria and was mother of Henry XVI of Bavaria.

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