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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 997.
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  Albert Azzo II van Este (997 - 1096/1097) was de enige zoon van Albert Azzo I van Luni en zijn vrouw Adela.
  
  In 1014 werd Albert Azzo enige tijd gevangengezet door keizer Hendrik II vanwege de politiek van zijn vader. Dit lijkt een belangrijke les te zijn geweest: Albert Azzo was gedurende zijn lange leven een voorzichtig politicus die er steeds voor zorgde om een goede relatie met de keizer te hebben. Hierdoor kon hij gestaag zijn bezit en zijn macht uitbreiden.
  
  Albert Azzo erfde in 1026 de functies van zijn vader: graaf van Luni, Genua, Tortona en markgraaf van Milaan. Onder keizer Hendrik III werd hij ook graaf van Lunigiana, Padua en Rovigo, heer van Monfelice en Montagrane. Hij was voogd van een groot aantal abdijen, waaronder Vagadizza, San Giovanni di Vicolo en Caprasio dell'Aula. Albert Azzo had grote bezittingen in heel Noord-Italië en in Toscane en werd als de rijkste man van Italië beschouwd. In 1073 vestigde hij zich permanent in Este, en naar die plaats heeft zijn familie zich genoemd.
  
  Omstreeks 1050 hertrouwde Albert Azzo met Gersenda van Maine, de verstoten vrouw van Theobald III van Blois. Albert Azzo probeerde voor haar en voor zijn oudste zoon uit dit huwelijk: Hugo, Maine weer in handen te krijgen. In 1069 leidde hij een expeditie tegen de Normandiërs die de macht hadden in Maine en wist ze met veel moeite te verslaan. Albert Azzo keerde met zijn zoons terug naar Italië en Gersende bleef achter om Maine te besturen, samen met haar vazal Godfried van Mayenne die openlijk haar minnaar was. Uiteindelijk had Hugo geen interesse in Maine en bleek dat graafschap niet te behouden.
  
  De investituurstrijd plaatste Albert Azzo voor een moeilijke keuze. Na lang aarzelen koos hij de kant van de paus, tegen keizer Hendrik IV. Wel was Albert Azzo een van de bemiddelaars die het uiteindelijke compromis (de gang naar Canossa) mogelijk maakten. In 1096 bemiddelde hij nog de verzoening tussen Hendrik IV en zijn zoon Welf. Albert Azzo is begraven in het klooster van Vagadizza.
  
  Albert Azzo was gehuwd met:
  
  Cunigonde, dochter van graaf Welf II van Altdorf en Irmentrud, zij kregen een zoon: Welf. Haar bruidsschat was een bezit van 1100 hoeven in de omgeving van Padua, wat later door Welf werd geërfd. Cunigonde is begraven in het klooster van Vagadizza.
  Gersende, dochter van Herbert I van Maine, zij kregen twee zoons: Hugo en Fulco (ovl. 15 december 1128). Welf heeft nog oorlog gevoerd tegen zijn halfbroers over hun Italiaanse bezittingen.
  Volgens sommige bronnen was hij ook getrouwd met Vitalia, dochter van Peter Orseolo.
  
  Albert Azzo had een buitenechtelijke relatie met Mathilde, zuster van de bisschop Willem van Padua. Ze kregen een dochter Adelasia die trouwde met Guglielmo Adelardi.

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  Alberto Azzo II (997 or July 10, 1009, Modena – August 20, 1097, Modena), Margrave of Milan, and Liguria, Count of Gavello and Padua, Rovigo, Lunigiana, Monselice, and Montagnana, aka, Albertezzo II, was a powerful nobleman in the Holy Roman Empire. He is considered the founder of Casa d'Este (House of Este), having been the first family to be master of Este, a town of Padua.
  
  Alberto Azzo II was the only son of Albert Azzo I, Margrave of Milan. He inherited his father's offices around 1020, and continuously increased his properties in northern Italy. In 1069–1070, he tried to acquire Maine for his son Hugh, because his wife, Garsende, was a co-heiress of the previous counts of Maine. Hugh was declared count, but he could not prevail against Robert the duke of Normandy, who had been betrothed to the last heiress. In the Investiture Controversy between Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and Pope Gregory VII, Azzo attempted to mediate, but later he joined the side of the Pope. Around 1073 he made a castle at Este his residence, from which the House of Este, the dynasty to which he belongs, takes its name. Before his building project, Este was little more than a village.
  
  His son Welf IV d'Este (from his first marriage) moved to Germany, first to Carinthia and then to Bavaria, giving rise to one of the most important families in European history, the Guelphs. This in turn ultimately led to the ascension to the English throne in 1714 with George I of England. Another son Fulk I of Milan (from his second marriage), who was the first person documented to use the title of "Marquis d'Este."
  
  Family
  
  Azzo II married Kunigunde (also called Chuniza), the daughter of Welf II, Count of Altdorf, in 1036. They had one known child:
  
  Welf (died November 6, 1101, Paphos) Duke of Bavaria from 1070 to 1077 and from 1096 to his death. First member of the Welf branch of the House of Este.
  
  His second marriage was to Garsende, daughter of Herbert I, Count of Maine, around 1050. They had the following known sons:
  
  Fulco I, Margrave of Milan (died 1128), ancestor of the Italian branch of the House of Este
  Hugh V, Count of Maine (died 1131), had no issue
  
  Some sources say he also married Vitalia Orseolo, daughter of Peter Orseolo. They had daughter Itta.
  
  He had an extra-marital affaire with Matilda, sister of William, Bishop of Padua, with whom he had a daughter named Adelasia, who married Guglielmo Adelardi.

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  The House of Este (play /'?sti/) is a European princely dynasty. It is split into two branches; the elder is known as the House of Welf-Este or House of Welf (Guelf or Guelph), and the younger, known as the House of Fulc-Este or later simply as the House of Este.
  
  The elder branch of the House of Este included the dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1208–1918) and produced England's Hanoverian monarchs.
  
  The younger branch of the House of Este included rulers of Ferrara (1240–1597), and Modena and Reggio (1288–1796).
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  Origins
  
  The origins of the family is from the Roman Attii family that migrate from Rome to Easte, [1] called to the labour of defending Italy against Goths. The first known member of the house was Margrave Adalbert of Mainz, known only as father of Oberto I, Count palatine of Italy, who died around 975. Oberto's grandson Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan, (996–1097) built a castle at Este, near Padua, and named himself after it. He had 3 sons from two marriages, two of whom became the ancestors of the two branches of the family:
  
  Welf IV, the eldest (d. 1101), was the son of Kunigunde (d. 1056), the last of the Elder Welfs. He inherited the property of his maternal uncle, Welf, Duke of Carinthia, became duke of Bavaria in 1070, and is the ancestor of the elder branch, the House of Welf.
  Hugh, issue of Azzo's second marriage to Garsend of Maine, inherited the County of Maine, his mother's dowry, but sold it one year later and died without heirs.
  Fulco I (d. about 1128/35), the third son, is the ancestor of the younger Italian line of Este.
  
  The two surviving branches, with Duke Henry the Lion of Saxony and Bavaria on the German side, concluded an agreement in 1154 which allocated the family's Italian possessions to the younger line, the Fulc-Este, who in the course of time acquired Ferrara, Modena and Reggio. Este itself was taken over in 1275 by Padua and in 1405 (together with Padua) by Venice.
  Elder branch, Guelph, Electors of Hanover
  Main article: House of Welf
  George, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, Prince-Elector of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick. ca. 1714, the year of his succession, by Sir Godfrey Kneller.
  Royal Arms of Great Britain (1714-1801).svg
  
  The elder branch of the House of Este, the House of Welf, historically rendered "Guelf" or "Guelph" in English, produced dukes of Bavaria (1070–1139, 1156–1180), dukes of Saxony (1138–1139, 1142–1180), a German King (1198–1218), and the dukes of Brunswick and Lüneburg (1208–1918), later styled the "Electors of Hanover" when two branches of the family recombined in 1705.
  
  After the peace ending the Napoleonic wars reshaped Europe ushering in the Modern era, the Electorate of Hanover (duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg held in personal union by the king of Great Britain, George III) was dissolved by treaty, its lands were enlarged, and the state promoted to a kingdom. The new kingdom existed from 1815 to 1866, but upon accession of Queen Victoria (who could not inherit Hanover under the Salic law) in 1837, it passed to her uncle and thus ceased to be in personal union with the British Crown.
  
  The House of Este hence gave Great Britain and the United Kingdom the "Hanoverian monarchs" (1714–1901).
  Coat of Arms of Great Britain (1714-1801).svg
  
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  Younger branch, the Margraves of Este
  Ercole I d'Este was one of the most important patrons of arts in the Italian Renaissance.
  
  All later generations of the Italian branch are descendants of Fulco d'Este. From 1171 on, his descendants were titled Margraves of Este.
  
  Obizzo I (d. 1193), the first margrave, battled against Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. His nephew Azzo d'Este VI (1170–1212) became podestà of Mantua and Verona. In 1146 with the last of the Adelardi Ferrara passed as the dowry of his niece the Marchesella, to Azzo VI d'Este. Azzo VII Novello was nominated podestà for his lifetime in 1242.
  
  The lordship of Ferrara was made hereditary by Obizzo II (d. 1293) who was proclaimed Lord of Ferrara in 1264, Lord of Modena 1288 and Lord of Reggio 1289. Ferrara being a papal fief, the Este family were given the position of hereditary papal vicars in 1332.
  
  Ferrara became a significant center of culture under Niccolò d'Este III (1384–1441), who received several popes with great magnificence, especially Eugene IV, who held a Council here in 1438, later known as the Council of Florence.
  Leonello d'Este (by Pisanello).
  
  His successors were Leonello (1407–1450) and Borso (1413–1471), who was elevated to Duke of Modena and Reggio by Emperor Frederick III in 1452 and in return received these duchies as imperial fiefs. In 1471 he received the duchy of Ferrara as papal fief from Pope Paul II, for which occasion splendid frescoes were executed at Palazzo Schifanoia.
  
  Under Ercole (1431–1505), one of the most significant patrons of the arts in late 15th and early 16th century Italy, Ferrara grew into a cultural center, renowned especially for music; Josquin Des Prez worked for Duke Ercole, Jacob Obrecht came to Ferrara twice, and Antoine Brumel served as principal musician from 1505. Ercole's daughter Beatrice (1475–1497) married Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, while his daughter Isabella (1474–1539) married Francesco Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua.
  
  Ercole I's successor was his son Alfonso I (1476–1534), third husband of Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, sister to Cesare Borgia and the patron of Ariosto.
  Isabella d'Este, portrait by Titian.
  
  Alfonso and Lucrezia Borgia's son Ercole d'Este II (1508–1559) married Renée of France, daughter of Louis XII of France. His son Alfonso II first married Lucrezia, daughter of grand-duke Cosimo I of Tuscany, then after becoming a widower, Barbara, the sister of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576) and finally a third wife, Margherita Gonzaga, daughter of the duke of Mantua.
  
  Though he raised the glory of Ferrara to its highest point, and was the patron of Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini, favouring the arts and sciences, as the princes of his house had always done, the legitimate line ended in 1597 with him. Emperor Rudolph II recognized as heir his first cousin Cesare d'Este (1533–1628), member of a cadet branch born out of wedlock, who continued to rule in the imperial duchies and carried on the family name. Ferrara, on the other hand, was annexed by force of arms in 1598 by Pope Clement VIII, on grounds of the heir's illegitimacy, and incorporated into the Papal States.
  
  The last duke, Ercole III, was deposed in 1796 by the French and his two duchies became the Cispadane Republic which one year later was merged into the Cisalpine Republic and then into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. Ercole was compensated in 1801 with the small principality of Breisgau in southwestern Germany, whose previous rulers, the Habsburgs, ceded it to him in anticipation of its eventual return to the Habsburgs, since Ercole's daughter Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este was married to a cadet Habsburg, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este. Ercole died in 1803 and Breisgau passed to his daughter and her husband, who then (1806) lost it during the Napoleonic reorganization of the western territories of the defunct Holy Roman Empire to the enlarged and elevated Grand Duchy of Baden.
  Austria-Este and the House of Habsburg
  Main article: Austria-Este
  
  In 1814, when French rule in Italy ended (but after the death of Duke Ercole), Modena was returned to his daughter Mary Beatrice and her son, Archduke Francis of Austria-Este. The family thus ruled the duchy of Modena and Reggio again from 1814 to 1859, using the names Asburgo-Este (Habsburg-Este) and Austria-Este. In 1859 the duchy lost its independence to the new united Italy, and Francis V, Duke of Modena, was deposed.
  Ercole III was the last Este duke of Modena and Reggio.
  
  The family of Austria-Este became extinct in the male line with the death of Francis V in 1875. His blood-heiress was his niece, Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria-Este (d. 1919); she and her husband, Prince Louis of Bavaria, later became Queen and King of Bavaria. The present head of this branch of the family is Franz, Duke of Bavaria.
  
  However, Francis V had decided to retain the Este name in the Habsburg family and willed his inheritance to the line of Archduke Charles Louis, younger brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, on condition that the heir use the name Austria-Este. The first "adoptee" was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1863, not descended from Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este), who took the name Austria-Este and in 1896 became the heir presumptive of the Habsburg Empire, but was murdered on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo.
  Arms of the Dukes of Austria-Este as borne by Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his lifetime.
  
  Since his own children were born in morganatic marriage (Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg), the Habsburgs designated his soon-to-be born great-nephew Robert (b. 8 February 1915), second son of the future emperor Charles, as the next "adopted Austria-Este". Through his mother Zita of Bourbon-Parma (a great-granddaughter of Maria Teresa of Savoy, Duchess of Lucca and Parma, who was a daughter of Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, who in turn was a daughter of Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este and Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Duchess and Duke of Breisgau and Modena), Robert was a descendant of Ercole III d'Este, and the blood of last Este dukes thus joined again with the name Austria-Este.
  
  Today, the bearer of this tradition is the eldest son of Archduke Robert of Austria-Este (1915-1996), Lorenz Otto Charles of Austria-Este (b. 1955), who is married to Princess Astrid of Belgium, the only daughter of King Albert II. In 1995, Lorenz received the additional title of Prince of Belgium.
  
  Since 1991 the couple's children are titled :
  
  International format : Princes(ss) of Belgium, Archduke (Archduchess) of Austria-Este, Prince(ss) Imperial of Austria, Prince(ss) Royal of Hungary and Bohemia .
  Belgian format : Princes(ss) of Belgium, Archduke (Archduchess) of Austria-Este (Habsbourg-Lorraine)
  
  The eldest of their children is Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (b. 1986).

• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1097 in Vangadizza, hij was toen 100 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Albert Azzo I van Luni en Adela van Aucia
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 8 november 2012.

Gezin van Albert Azzo II van Este

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Vitalia Orseolo.

Zij zijn getrouwdBron 2

Kind(eren):

1. Itta van Este  

(2) Hij had een relatie met Mathilde van Padua.

De relatie startte

Kind(eren):

1. Adelasia van Este  -1054

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Kunigunde van Altorf.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1036, hij was toen 39 jaar oud.Bron 2

Kind(eren):

1. Welf IV van Beieren  1030-1101 

(4) Hij is getrouwd met Gersende van Maine.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1050, hij was toen 53 jaar oud.Bron 3

Kind(eren):

1. Fulco I van Este  -1128
2. Gassenda ? van Este  
3. Hugo V van Este  1060-1131

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