Europe · High and late Middle Ages
Ambrosian Republic
1447–1450
Named for St. Ambrose, patron of Milan. Proclaimed on the death of Filippo Maria Visconti in August 1447 by Milanese jurists and citizens seeking to restore communal liberty.
- Existed
- 1447–1450
- Shown on the map
- 1450–1452
- Peak area
- 30k km²
- Region
- Europe
Overview
Named for St. Ambrose, patron of Milan. Proclaimed on the death of Filippo Maria Visconti in August 1447 by Milanese jurists and citizens seeking to restore communal liberty. Officials bore titles such as "Captains and Defenders of the Liberty of Milan." The republic was militarily embattled from the outset, at war with Venice, and dependent on its own condottiero, Francesco Sforza, whom it hired as captain-general. Sforza turned on his employers, besieged Milan, and entered the city, having himself proclaimed duke on 25 March 1450, ending the republic after less than three years. It is a classic case of a short-lived commune crushed between dynastic powers.
Common questions
- What was the Ambrosian Republic?
- Named for St. Ambrose, patron of Milan. Proclaimed on the death of Filippo Maria Visconti in August 1447 by Milanese jurists and citizens seeking to restore communal liberty.
- When did the Ambrosian Republic exist?
- The Ambrosian Republic existed 1447–1450. On this map it is drawn 1450–1452.
- How large was the Ambrosian Republic?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Ambrosian Republic covered about 30,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each polity as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and the scholarship of Donald Queller, Thomas Madden and Jonathan Harris on the Fourth Crusade, whose post-conspiracy reading of 1204 this document follows. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Golden Ambrosian Republic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Ambrosian_Republic
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