Maximilian Sforza
Duke of Milan
Years: 1493 - 1530
Maximilian (Massimiliano) Sforza (January 25, 1493 – June 4, 1530) is a Duke of Milan from the Sforza family, the son of Lodovico Sforza.
He rules 1512–1515, between the occupations of Louis XII of France (1500–1512), and Francis I of France in 1515.
After the French victory at the Battle of Marignano, Massimiliano is imprisoned by the returning French troops.
He waives his rights to Milan for the sum of thirty thousand ducats and continues to live in France.
When he was three his father tried to arrange a marriage between him and Mary Tudor, the younger daughter of King Henry VII of England.
However, Henry VII rejected the proposal as Massimiliano's father was hoping that Henry would help him against the French, which was not in Henry's interest.
