Giovanni Gonzaga

Giovanni Gonzaga (1474 – 23 September 1525) was an Italian nobleman of the House of Gonzaga, born at Mantua.

Giovanni was the youngest child of Federico I Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua and Margaret of Bavaria, Marchioness of Mantua.^[1] In 1494 he married Laura Bentivoglio,^[1] daughter of Giovanni II Bentivoglio, de facto lord of Bologna. As the lords of Vescovato, they started a branch of the Gonzaga family that survived until at least the 1990s.