Agnese Visconti

He seized the papal city of Bologna, rejected the Pope and his authority, confiscated ecclesiastical property, and forbade any of his subjects to have any dealings with the Curia.

The marriage by proxy was signed on 15 August of the same year, with Agnese brought as a dowry 50,000 gold scudi and the cities of Parma, Cremona, Brescia and Bergamo.

[6] Accused by her husband of having committed adultery with Antonio da Scandiano, Agnese was beheaded in Mantua on 7 February 1391 while her alleged lover was hanged.

[6] Nevertheless, Francesco remarried only two years later (1393) with Margherita Malatesta, making a new alliance with the Lords of Rimini against the Visconti of Milan.

[6][4] Both Agnese and her alleged lover were buried in the current Piazza Pallone,[6] the courtyard of the Ducal Palace of Mantua, where a plaque is still placed, which commemorates their deaths.