Elisabetta Visconti [SEP] mother
Elisabetta Visconti
Elisabetta Visconti (1374 – 2 February 1432), also known as "Elisabeth" or "Elizabeth", was a younger child of Bernabò Visconti and his wife, Beatrice Regina della Scala. Elisabetta was a member of the House of Visconti.
Family.
Elisabetta was born in Milan and was one of the youngest of seventeen children, it is unknown what exact number she was of the seventeen children, her parents both state her in a different order. It is most likely that Elisabetta was the
Galeazzo Visconti and his first wife Isabella of Valois. The marriage could not take place due to Gian Galeazzo the Younger's premature death. After his mother, Isabella died, Elisabetta's sister, Caterina Visconti married Gian Galeazzo the Elder.
John II, Duke of Bavaria started marriage negotiations between his son, Ernest and Elisabetta.
The negotiations were successful. Elisabetta was married in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm 26 January 1395 to Ernest. Two years later, on John's death, the couple became Duke and Duchess of Bavaria