Giulio Cybo: Difference between revisions

In 1546, he challenged his mother for control of the duchy of Massa and Carrara, which she had inherited from her father. With the backing of [[Cosimo I de' Medici]] and [[Andrea Doria]], he seized control by force in 1546.<ref name="Shaw2014">{{cite book|author=Christine Shaw|title=Barons and Castellans: The Military Nobility of Renaissance Italy|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UgsSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA79|date=16 October 2014|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-28276-6|pages=79–}}</ref> Soon after, his mother appealed to [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]], and Charles sent his forces to seize Massa while Guilio was away.

In March 1546, Giulio married [[Peretta Doria]] (1526–1591), daughter of Tommaso and sister of [[Giannettino Doria]]). Guilio had been promised a large dowry, which he wanted to fund a return to power, but Andrea Doria refused, arguing that he'd already spent more than the dowry on Guilio's first attempt to seize the Duchy.<ref name="Bent1881">{{cite book|author=James Theodore Bent|title=Genoa: how the Republic Rose and Fell|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=iJb2R-cY0fkC&pg=PA291|year=1881|publisher=C. K. Paul & Company|pages=291–}}</ref>

The plot was however discovered before its beginning and Cybo was arrested in [[Pontremoli]]. Despite the intervention of [[Cosimo I de' Medici]] in his favour, he was executed in the May 1548.