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Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma

1678 - 1727

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Francesco Farnese (19 May 1678 – 26 February 1727) reigned as the seventh Farnese Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1694 until his death. Married to Dorothea Sophia of the Palatinate, his brother Odoardo's widow, to avoid the return of her dowry, Francesco curtailed court expenditure, enormous under his father and predecessor, Ranuccio II, while preventing the occupation of his Duchy of Parma, nominally a Papal fief, during the War of the Spanish Succession. The second son of Ranuccio II Farnese and Maria d'Este of Modena, the Duke, despite his efforts otherwise, saw Parma declared a fief of the Duchy of Milan, an Austrian province in Italy, towards the end of the war. His inability to produce offspring, combined with his brother Antonio's barrenness, lead to the accession of his niece the Queen of Spain's eldest son, Don Carlos, in 1731. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma is the 6,021st most popular politician (up from 7,014th in 2019), the 1,621st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,875th in 2019) and the 397th most popular Italian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 6,021 out of 19,576. Before him are Wacho, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chungjeong of Goryeo, Péter Medgyessy, Rashad al-Alimi, and Dragiša Cvetković. After him are Alparslan Türkeş, Emperor Hanazono, Thorbjörn Fälldin, Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia, and Richard Glücks.

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Among people born in 1678, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 7. Before him are Antonio Vivaldi, Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, Amaro Pargo, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, and Filippo Juvarra. After him are Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Peter Lacy, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Jakob Hermann, and Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. Among people deceased in 1727, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 7. Before him are Catherine I of Russia, George I of Great Britain, Ismail Ibn Sharif, Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Veronica Giuliani, and Francesco Gasparini. After him are Aert de Gelder, August Hermann Francke, Louis Armand II, Prince of Conti, Cornelis de Bruijn, Jakob Abbadie, and Boris Kurakin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 1,621 out of 5,161. Before him are Matteo Carcassi (1792), Raffaele Riario (1461), Veronica Franco (1546), Jacopo Riccati (1676), Wacho (500), and Gianfranco Zola (1966). After him are Maria, Queen of Sicily (1363), Adriano Banchieri (1568), Roberto Boninsegna (1943), Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (-116), Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779), and Girolamo Riario (1443).

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Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma ranks 397. Before him are Francesco III Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1533), Rothari (606), Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (-181), Dino Grandi (1895), Marcus Livius Drusus (-200), and Wacho (500). After him are Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus (-116), Giovanni Battista Bugatti (1779), Girolamo Riario (1443), Iullus Antonius (-43), John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834), and Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma (1612).

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