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Alfonso d’Este (Ferrara 10 March 1527 – Ferrara 1 November 1587) was an Italian nobleman. He was the illegitimate son of Alfonso I d’Este Duke of Ferrara by his lover Laura Dianti. In 1523 his father gave him Montecchio and turned it into a feudal inheritance for cadet members of his family – in 1569 it was promoted to a marquessate by Maximilian II Holy Roman Emperor.Alfonso was legitimated in 1532 by cardinal Innocenzo Cybo and in 1533 by his father Alfonso I.

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