- Isabella of Modena
Isabella d'Este (
Modena ,October 3 1635 -Colorno ,August 21 1666 ), was Duchess ofParma , and second wife of Duke Ranuccio II Farnese.Isabella was a daughter of the
Duke of Modena Francesco I d'Este and Maria Caterina Farnese, daughter ofRanuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma .After the death of his first wife Marguerite of Savoy, Ranuccio II married in 1663 his niece Isabella. But the couple only met on
February 18 1664 , when Isabella arrived in Parma. For this occasion a grandiose celebration and musical spectacles were organized.The couple had three children :
*Margherita Maria (November 24 1664 -June 17 1718 ), married 1692Francesco II d'Este , Duke of Modena.
*Teresa (1665 - 1702), married 1695 Gustav II, Duke of Merten.
*Odoardo II Farnese (August 12 1666 - 1693), heir to the Duchy of Parma und Piacenza, but who died before his father.
He marriedDorothea Sophie of Neuburg , and was the father ofIsabelle Farnese , future Queen of Spain.But the birth of Odoardo proved fatal to Isabella, who died of complications nine days later on August 21, at Colorno.
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