!!!Bianca Maria Sforza

b. Milan (Italy), April 5, 1472, 
d. Innsbruck (Tyrol), Dec. 31, 1510, daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza 
of Milan, 1493 second wife of Emperor  Maximilian I, who because 
of her allegedly extravagant tastes and wastefulness, treated her 
extremely badly. Maximilian I used her generous dowry for military 
campaigns. In 1499 during the war against the Swiss, she raised an 
army in her husband´s name in Tyrol; intervened in favour of her 
uncle Ludovico, which led to her being exiled from Augsburg by 
Maximilian in 1500 along with her supporters, later lived in 
Innsbruck.

!Literature
T. Leitner, Habsburgs goldene Braeute, 2000.



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