* Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere ( 6 December 1503-11 September 1507 )

He was succeeded by Malatesta Ungaro ( 1373 ) and Galeotto, uncle of the former ( 1385 ), lord also of Fano ( from 1340 ), Pesaro, and Cesena ( 1378 ).

The following year what remained of Cesena was assigned by the new pope Urban VI to Galeotto I Malatesta.

It was rebuilt by Galeotto I Malatesta, lord of Rimini, during the war against Fermo.

* The Corte Malatestiana, built after 1357 by Galeotto I Malatesta.

The poetry that Tromboncino set tended to be by the most famous writers of the time ; he set Petrarch, Galeotto, Sannazaro, and others ; he even set a poem by Michelangelo, Come haro dunque ardire, which was part of a collection Tromboncino published in 1518.

Their courts, which were similar to the royal courts of Buda and Visegrád, were visited by such kings, scientists, and artists as Louis the Great, Sigismund of Luxembourg, King Matthias Corvinus, Galeotto Marzio, Regiomontanus, the famous astronomer Márton Ilkus and Georg Peuerbach, Pier Paolo Vergerio and Antonio Bonfini, King Matthias ’ historian, who, in his work praises the constructive work of János Vitéz, King Matthias ’ educator.

In the 14th century it was captured by the Papal vicar Filippo Simonetti, by Galeotto I Malatesta ( 1347 – 1351 ), by Braccio da Montone in 1408, and by Francesco I Sforza, who turned it into his family's main stronghold in the Marche.

Two years later he married Polissena Sforza, Francesco I's illegitimate daughter ; they had two children: a son, Galeotto, born in 1442 and who only lived a few months, and a daughter, Giovanna, born in 1444 and later Duchess of Camerino by marriage.

In 1488 Galeotto Manfredi was assassinated by his wife: his son Astorre III succeeded him, but was in turn killed in Rome as a prisoner of Cesare Borgia, who had captured Faenza in 1501.

The Papal commander Rodolfo II da Varano, lord of Camerino, defeated Galeotto Malatesta, forcing his family to become a loyal ally of the Pope.

*( 20 ) Galeotto II of Cervia ( son of 12 ) ( d .)-Lord of Cervia

Contemporary tracts and accounts such as that of Francesco Guicciardini have been found to allude to active same-sex relations – alleging Count Ludovico Rangone and Galeotto Malatesta among his lovers.

Having received the support of the archbishop of Milan and Giovanni Visconti, he defeated Giovanni di Vico, lord of Viterbo, moving against Galeotto Malatesta of Rimini and the Ordelaffi of Forlì, the Montefeltro of Urbino and the da Polenta of Ravenna, and against the cities of Senigallia and Ancona.

Carlo died childless in 1429, and the lordship was divided into three parts, Rimini going to Galeotto Roberto, a Catholic zealot who turned out to be totally inadequate for the role.

Galeotto retired to a convent, and Sigismondo obtained the rule of Rimini.

Born twenty-three years into his parents ' marriage, Giovanni had two much older brothers, both of whom outlived him: Count Galeotto I ( 1442 – 1499 ) continued the dynasty, while Antonio ( 1444 – 1501 ) became a general in the Imperial army.

The most important humanists living in Matthias ' court were Antonio Bonfini, Galeotto Marzio, Pietro Ranzano, Marsilio Ficino, Aurelio Lippo Brandolini and the Hungarian poet Janus Pannonius.

As Galeotto Marzio tells us, Hungarian ' heroic sagas ', and love songs were often sung on special occasions in the king's court alongside the international, ' modern ' Burgundian-Flandrian music.

This unstable situation opened the way to foreign dictatorships, like those of Galeotto I Malatesta ( 14th century ), initially recruited as a mercenary ( condottiero ) in the war against Fermo, and Francesco Sforza.

The Malatesta became lords of the city in 1356 with Galeotto I Malatesta, who was nominally only a vicar of the Popes.

The first tragedy is credited to the Italian Galeotto Del Carretto ( c. 1470 – 1530 ) which was written in 1502, but issued posthumously in 1546.

An elder ( and also illegitimate ) half-brother, Galeotto Roberto Malatesta, born in 1411, was the issue of the relationship of their father Pandolfo III with Allegra de ' Mori.

After his victory, Sigismondo obtained, together with his brothers Galeotto Roberto and Domenico, the title of Papal vicar for those cities.

Gonzaga, however, whose friend Galeotto Toscano was a fatal casualty of the uprising, departed Milan to Crema, hoping to make peace with Sforza.

*( 12 ) Galeotto I ( d. 1385 ) ( son of 6 )-Lord of Rimini ,& c.

Cesare then broke out of the Castel Sant ' Angelo and escaped, but the accession of the Borgias ' deadly enemy, Giuliano della Rovere, as Pope Julius II caused his final ruin.

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

The Basilica San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome is the family church of the della Rovere.

Guidobaldo da Montefeltro adopted Francesco Maria I della Rovere, his sister's child and nephew of Pope Julius II.

Vittoria, last descendant of the della Rovere family ( she was the only child of Federico Ubaldo ), married Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

# Francesco Maria I della Rovere ( 1490 – 1538 )

# Guidobaldo II della Rovere ( 1514 – 1574 )

# Francesco Maria II della Rovere ( 1549 – 1631 )-duchy abolished, title continued

# Federico Ubaldo della Rovere ( 1605 – 1623 )-title became extinct with his death

Victripharus ( after Vittoria della Rovere ), III.

* Eleonora Gonzaga ( 31 December 1493 – 13 February 1570 ), married Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, by whom she had issue.

* 1476 – Giuliano della Rovere is appointed bishop of Coutances.

This selection can be seen as a compromise between factions, Borgia and della Rovere, picking a frail cardinal with long experience in the Curia over the kin of either Sixtus IV or Alexander VI.

Pope Julius II ( 5 December 1443 – 21 February 1513 ), nicknamed " The Fearsome Pope " ( Il Papa Terribile ) and " The Warrior Pope " ( Il Papa Guerriero ), born Giuliano della Rovere, was Pope from 1503 to 1513.

Giuliano della Rovere was the son of Rafaello della Rovere nephew of Pope Sixtus IV and of Theodora Manerola, a lady of Greek extraction.

Giuliano was an altar boy of his uncle Pope Sixtus IV ( Francesco della Rovere ).

Giuliano della Rovere ( left, future Julius II ) and Julius II's future cardinal-nephew, Clemente della Rovere ( right ) who safeguarded Giuliano's affairs while he fled to France following a dispute with Alexander VI.

Giulliano della Rovere, as cardinal, age 34 ( left ) with uncle and patron Francesco della Rovere, Pope Sixtus IV ( right ).