State · 1574 – 1708
Duchy of Montferrat
A state of 1574 – 1708 — 134 years in Europe. It replaced March of Montferrat. The atlas records 7 things within it — people 7. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 134 years
- 1574 – 1708
- Rulers
- 8
- the Duke of Montferrat
- Within it
- 7
- recorded rows
- Symbol
- 1
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- March of Montferrat · replaces
Rulers
The line of Duke of Montferrat - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guglielmo Gonzaga | 1574 – 1587 | 13 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Vincenzo I Gonzaga | 1587 – 1612 | 25 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
| Francesco IV Gonzaga | 1612 – 1612 | under a year | died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua | 1612 – 1626 | 14 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Vincenzo II Gonzaga | 1626 – 1627 | 1 year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | sibling |
| Charles I Gonzaga | 1627 – 1637 | 10 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Charles II Gonzaga of Mantua and Montferrat | 1637 – 1665 | 28 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | grandchild |
| Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga | 1665 – 1708 | 43 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | child |
8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 1574 – 1708. Median reign 13.5 years. 1 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flag or arms
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, undatedFlag of Montferrat · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1500 – 15995 rows
- Vincenzo I Gonzaga · ruler · 1562 – 1612
- Guglielmo Gonzaga · ruler · 1538 – 1587
- Charles I Gonzaga · ruler · 1580 – 1637
- Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua · ruler · 1587 – 1626
- Vincenzo II Gonzaga · ruler · 1594 – 1627
1600 – 16992 rows
- Charles II Gonzaga of Mantua and Montferrat · ruler · 1629 – 1665
- Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga · ruler · 1652 – 1708
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood134 years
stood longer than 53% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median14 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 46% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 134
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1561 – 1721, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1641, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q15604942 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.