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control. Secondotto realised at that juncture the danger of his
Milanese alliance, but by then it was too late. He gathered a force and led it against the Milanese troops and was defeated. Probably out of fear, he retreated to an unknown destination. He died at
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in obscure circumstances: he may simply have been the loser in a brawl (he was famously ill-tempered and violent), or he may have been assassinated by an agent of the
Visconti. His body was carried to Parma and buried before the high altar of
235:. The city of Asti, on which Galeazzo had also had designs, was to count as part of Maria's dowry, and Montferrat would be allowed to retain control of it. The peace was short-lived, however, as Maria died in the May of the following year.
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When Otto of
Brunswick's brother attacked and seized Asti, Secondotto called in the aid of his father-in-law, who, with a huge force, retook Asti and maintained it under
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stipulated in his will that he should be buried in a new chapel in the church of S. Secondo. The will is reproduced in
Benvenuto Sangiorgio,
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When his uncle received news of his death, he returned at once to the margraviate to handle the succession. He placed
Secondotto's brother
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may derive from his being the second Otto to rule
Montferrat in his own right, though he would really be
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1373:, Edizioni Circolo Culturale I Marchesi del Monferrato (Genoa: Tipografia Brigati, 2006, pp. 4–5.)
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Montferrat throne. Despite the involvement of Emperor-elect
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Cenni storici sui
Marchesi Paleologi di Monferrato (1306–1536)
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Transactions of the
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
1308:, ed. by Giuseppe Vernazza (Turin: 1780), pp. 209–224; see
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27:Margrave of Montferrat (1372-1378)
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1390:, 21 (1916), 1–144 (pp. 107–109).
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438:Theodore I, Marquis of Montferrat
261:(2 August 1377), the daughter of
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216:, a close ally of his father.
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966:13. Isabelle de Sabran
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184:. His name
57:Predecessor
1432:Categories
1414:1372–1378
311:Wenceslaus
291:Langhirano
186:Secondotto
98:1378-12-16
119:Spouse(s)
67:Successor
52:1372–1378
1420:John III
317:Ancestry
307:John III
286:Milanese
275:Piedmont
259:Violante
190:Otto III
1403:John II
1346:Cronica
1305:Cronica
240:regency
221:John II
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1310:p. 222
279:Achaea
248:Naples
174:Ottone
168:(also
154:Mother
144:Father
1287:Notes
295:Parma
233:Maria
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206:Asti
170:Otho
92:Died
84:Born
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