page_title: Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda
section_title: Second marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda / Second marriage
caption_attribution_description: Portrait de Béatrice Lascaris de Tende
context_page_description: Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda or Beatrice de Tende or Beatrix, was an Italian noblewoman who was the wife of Facino Cane, Count of Biandrate and a condottiero, and then wife to Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, who caused her death.
context_section_description: Filippo Maria Visconti succeeded his murdered brother in the Duchy of Milan. Some of his council advised him to marry Beatrice, whose worth exceeded his own personal fortune and territorial control, despite that she was twenty years his elder. Once he obtained his new wife's resources, he easily conquered the various rulers of the smaller neighboring domains. Building on the Facino's foundation, he reconstructed a state that began to compare of that of his father, Gian Galeazzo Visconti, before it fell apart under his brother Giovanni's rule.
  However, despite the wealth, territory, and military strength that she had brought to him, Filippo grew averse to Beatrice, perhaps because of jealousy of her late husband's reputation, or her own political power, or her greater age, or that she bore no children, or his favoring of his mistress, the much younger Agnese del Maino.
caption: Beatrice Lascaris di Tenda
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