SteveM wrote:Phaeded wrote:
Anyone have details (a date) on the conferring of the device by the d'Este on Alessandro?
I thought it was awarded to his father (Muzio Sforza) by Niccolo III d'Este? At least, I am pretty sure that is what I read somewhere ---- can't find it now, but I think somewhere along the same lines as I was following the Carrara family I referenced in posts above (Gigliola da Carrara, daughter of Francesco II da Carrara the Lord of Padua, being Niccolo's first wife)
Not the source I was thinking of, but confirmed in Dummet:
Michael Dummet, chapter 3, "Il Mondo e L'Angelo"
"Niccolò III d'Este aveva concesso l'uso dell'impresa dell'anello con il diamante a Muzio Attendolo, il padre di Francesco e Alessandro Sforza."
edited to add:
MikeH provides the original Dummet text with translation here:
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1019&p=15162&hilit=1428#p15160
edited (again) to add:
quote"
"On the arrival of Rupert III., King of the Romans, in Italy,
with the intention of humbling his Milanese vassal, Sforza
headed the Florentine contingent that was sent to his aid.
Rupert II L soon swelled the ranks of Sforza's admirers, and
before they parted he granted him the right of bearing his own
arms, namely, a lion rampant. The citizens of Cotignola had
already given Sforza the quince (cotignd), which formed the
device of his native town. Now, at the King's suggestion, the
lion grasped the quince in his left paw, while with his right
he challenged all those who should venture to wrest the
trophy from his grasp. The device was crowned by the Sforza
helmet, consisting of a winged dragon with a man's head In
1409 a diamond ring was added by the Marquis of Este to
commemorate Sforza' s triumph over Ottobuono Terzo, the
tyrant of Parma."{
A history of Milan under the Sforza by Cecilia M. Ady 1907
I vaguely recall that Ercole d'Este added or changed the type of flower ??