Book 9 — GENEALOGICAL TABLE
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DESCENT OF THE VARANA, as connected with URBINO.
Elisabetta Malatesta = RODOLFO VARANA Lord of Camerino, d. 1424. = Costanza Smeducci, of Sanseverino.
Gentil Pandolfo, slew his two half-brothers, 1433, and was massacred by the people in 1434, with his brother Bernardo and six nephews. Bernardo, Lord of Camerino, d. 1434. Giovanni, slain 1433 by his half-brothers. = Bartolomea Smeducci, of Sanseverino. Pier Gentile, slain 1433, by his half-brothers. = Elisabetta Malatesta, of Pesaro, daughter of Battista di Montefeltro. Nicolina = Braccio da Montone, of Perugia, d. 1424.
Giovanna Malatesta, of Rimini, d. 1511. 1451. = Giulio Cesare, made Lord of Camerino, 1447; strangled in 1502 with his nat. son Pirro, by Michelotto Coreglia. Rodolfo, made Lord of Camerino in 1444. = Camilla d’Este. Costanza, celebrated for her beauty and writings, d. 1447.
Venanzio, born 1476; strangled 1502, with his nat. brother Annibale. 1497. = Maria della Rovere, sister of Fran. Maria. I., Duke of Urbino. 1503. = Galeazzo Riario Sforza, of Forlì. Giovanni Maria, Usurper, Duke of Camerino, b. 1481, d. 1527. = Caterina Cibò of Massa, d. 1547. Ercole, claimed Camerino in 1527, but sold his rights to the Farnesi, d. 1548. = Filippa de’ Guarnieri.
Sigismondo, b. 1499, assassinated 1522, by order of his uncle, Giovanni Maria. = Ottavia Colonna. Ridolfo, seized Camerino in 1527, but soon expelled. Mattia, attempted to seize Camerino in 1534, d. 1551. = Battista Farnese Pier Gentile, § Existing issue.
Giulia, b. 1523, d. 1547. = § Guidobaldo II., Duke of Urbino.