Bianca Maria Sforza
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Portrait by Ambrogio de Predis, c. 1493
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Queen of the Romans Archuchess consort of Austria |
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| Tenure | 16 March 1494 – 31 December 1510 |
| Holy Roman Empress | |
| Tenure | 4 February 1508 – 31 December 1510 |
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5 April 1472 Pavia |
| Died | 31 December 1510 (aged 38) Innsbruck |
| Burial | Stams |
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| House | Sforza |
| Father | Galeazzo Maria Sforza |
| Mother | Bona of Savoy |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Bianca Maria Sforza (5 April 1472 – 31 December 1510) was an Italian noble woman, who was Holy Roman Empress as the second wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. She was the eldest legitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, by his second wife, Bona of Savoy.
Bianca was born in Pavia as the eldest daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, by his second wife, Bona of Savoy, whom he had married in 1468, a year after the death of his first wife, Dorotea Gonzaga, who did not bear him children. Bianca's paternal grandparents were Francesco I Sforza and Bianca Maria Visconti, for whom she was named. Her maternal grandparents were Louis, Duke of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan of Cyprus. She had two older brothers: Gian Galeazzo Sforza (who married their first cousin, Isabella of Naples, by whom he had issue), and Hermes Maria Sforza, Marquis of Torotona, and a younger sister Anna Sforza, first wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, who, after Anna's death in childbirth, would marry secondly, Lucrezia Borgia. Bianca's older illegitimate half-sister was Caterina Sforza from her father's relationship with Lucrezia Landriani. Her uncle was Ludovico Sforza Il Moro, Duke of Milan, who married Beatrice d'Este, and her aunt was Ippolita Maria Sforza, first wife of King Alfonso II of Naples.
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