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| name        = Francesco IV Gonzaga
| image       = Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza) - Francesco IV Gonzaga - Frans Pourbus il Giovane - A63 96,6x77,2.jpg
| caption     = Francesco IV Gonzaga
| succession  = [[Duke of Mantua]] [[Duke of Montferrat|and Montferrat]]
| reign       = 9 February 1612 - 22 December 1612
| predecessor = [[Vincenzo I Gonzaga]]
| successor   = [[Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua|Ferdinando Gonzaga]]
| house = [[House of Gonzaga|Gonzaga]]
| father      = [[Vincenzo I Gonzaga]]
| mother      = [[Eleonora de' Medici]]
| spouse      = {{marriage|[[Margarida of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal|Margaret of Savoy]]|19 February 1608}}
| issue       = [[Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat|Maria Gonzaga]]
| birth_date  = {{birth_date|1586|5|7|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Mantua]], [[Duchy of Mantua]]
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1612|12|22|1586|5|7|df=yes}}
| death_place = Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
}}
'''Francesco IV Gonzaga''' (7 May 1586 – 22 December 1612) was [[Duke of Mantua]] and [[Duke of Montferrat|Montferrat]] between 9 February and 22 December 1612.
==Biography==
Born in [[Mantua]], he was the eldest son of Duke [[Vincenzo I Gonzaga|Vincenzo I]] and [[Eleonora de' Medici]].{{sfn|Bourne|2010|p=182}}
In 1607, [[Claudio Monteverdi]] dedicated his opera ''[[L'Orfeo]]'' to Francesco. The title page of the opera bears the dedication "Al serenissimo signor D. Francesco Gonzaga, Prencipe di Mantoua, & di Monferato, &c."
Francesco became Duke upon his father's death on 9 February 1612. He died at Mantua on 22 December 1612 without male heirs. He was succeeded by his brother [[Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua|Ferdinand]]; however, [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy]], the father of Francesco's wife [[Margarida of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal|Margaret of Savoy]], disputed this, leading to the [[War of the Montferrat Succession]] (1613–1617).
==Family==
On 19 February 1608 he married in [[Turin]], [[Margarida of Savoy, Vicereine of Portugal|Margaret of Savoy]] (1589–1655),{{sfn|Bourne|2010|p=182}} daughter of [[Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy]].{{sfn|Raviola|2016|p=59}} They had:
* [[Maria Gonzaga, Duchess of Montferrat|Maria]] (29 July 1609 – 14 August 1660);{{sfn|Raviola|2016|p=59}} married in 1627 [[Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers|Charles II of Gonzaga]], Duke of [[Rethel]] and [[Nevers]].{{sfn|Bourne|2016|p=162}}
* Ludovico (27 April 1611 – 3 August 1612).
* Eleanore (12 September 1612 – 13 September 1612).
==Honours==
*[[File:MAN Order Blood Jesus Christ.png|50px]] [[Blood of Jesus Christ (military order)|Grand Master of the Order of the Redeemer]]
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua'''
|2= 2. [[Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua|Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]]
|3= 3. [[Eleonora de' Medici]]
|4= 4. [[Guglielmo X Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua]]
|5= 5. [[Archduchess Eleanor of Austria]]
|6= 6. [[Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]]
|7= 7. [[Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany|Archduchess Joanna of Austria]]
|8= 8. [[Federico II, Duke of Mantua]]
|9= 9. [[Margaret Palaeologina]]
|10= 10. [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor]]
|11= 11. [[Anna of Bohemia and Hungary]]
|12= 12. [[Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]]
|13= 13. [[Eleanor of Toledo]]
|14= 14. [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (= 10)
|15= 15. [[Anna of Bohemia and Hungary]] (= 11)
|16= 16. [[Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquess of Mantua]]
|17= 17. [[Isabella d'Este]]
|18= 18. [[William IX, Marquess of Montferrat]]
|19= 19. [[Anne of Alençon]]
|20= 20. [[Philip I of Castile]]
|21= 21. [[Joanna of Castile]]
|22= 22. [[Vladislas II of Hungary]]
|23= 23. [[Anna of Foix-Candale]]
|24= 24. [[Giovanni dalle Bande Nere]]
|25= 25. [[Maria Salviati]]
|26= 26. [[Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Villafranca]]
|27= 27. Maria Osorio
|28= 28. [[Philip I of Castile]] (= 20)
|29= 29. [[Joanna of Castile]] (= 21)
|30= 30. [[Vladislas II of Hungary]] (= 22)
|31= 31. [[Anna of Foix-Candale]] (= 23)
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==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book |title=The Court Cities of Northern Italy: Milan, Parma, Piacenza, Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna, Urbino, Pesaro, and Rimini |chapter=The Art of Diplomacy: Mantua and the Gonzaga |first=Molly |last=Bourne |page=138-195 |editor-first=Charles M. |editor-last=Rosenberg |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2010 }}
*{{cite book |first=Molly |last=Bourne |chapter=From court to cloister and back again: Margherita Gonzaga, Caterina dé Medici and Lucrina Fetti at the convent of Sant'Orsola in Mantua |page=153-180  |title=Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe |editor-first1=Sandra |editor-last1=Cavallo |editor-first2=Silvia |editor-last2=Evangelisti |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 }}
*{{cite book |chapter=The Three Lives of Margherita of Savoy-Gonzaga, Duchess of Mantua and Vicereine of Portugal |first=Blythe Alice |last=Raviola |page=59-78 |title=Early Modern Habsburg Women: Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts |editor-first1=Anne J. |editor-last1=Cruz |editor-first2=Maria Galli |editor-last2=Stampino |publisher=Routledge  |year=2016  }}
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