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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1450 Disestablishments, 1453 Disestablishments, 1456 Disestablishments, 1458 Disestablishments, 1459 Disestablishments, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium Under the Palaiologoi, Golden Ambrosian Republic, Serbian Despotate, Pomerania-Stolp, Duchy of Athens, Rietberg, Catalan Company, Kingdom of Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 1450 Disestablishments, 1453 Disestablishments, 1456 Disestablishments, 1458 Disestablishments, 1459 Disestablishments, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium Under the Palaiologoi, Golden Ambrosian Republic, Serbian Despotate, Pomerania-Stolp, Duchy of Athens, Rietberg, Catalan Company, Kingdom of Zimbabwe, Palatinate-Simmern and Zweibrücken, Parliament of Devils. Excerpt: item Aurea Repubblica Ambrosiana item Flag item Capital: Milan item Language(s) : Insubric - Italian item Religion: Roman Catholicism item Government: Republic item Legislature: Capitani e defensori della libertà item Historical era: Late Medieval item - Established: 1447 item - Disestablished: 1450 The Golden Ambrosian Republic (Italian: Aurea Repubblica Ambrosiana; 1447 1450) was a short-lived government founded in Milan by members of the University of Pavia with popular support. With the aid of Francesco Sforza they held out against the forces of Venice, but after a betrayal Sforza defected and captured Milan to become Duke himself, abolishing the Republic. History Foundation When Filippo Maria Visconti, Visconti Duke of Milan, died on 13 August 1447, the city was thrown into confusion by the unexpectedness of the Duke's expiration and the quick way in which the claimants to the title acted. Filippo Maria had no heir through male bloodlines, but the day before his death had written a will dedicating the Duchy to Alfonso V of Aragon. Among the other claimants were Charles, Duke of Orléans, nephew of Filippo Maria through his mother Valentina Visconti, Filippo's cousins Albert and Sigismund of the House of Habsburg, great-grandsons of Bernabò Visconti, and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, who declared that the Duchy Books, , 1450s-Disestablishments~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<