When Maddalena Visconti was born in 1366, in Milan, Lombardy, Italy, her father, Bernabò Visconti, was 43 and her mother, Beatrice della Scala, was 35. She married Frederick Duke of Bavaria on 2 September 1381, in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 24 August 1404, in Burghausen, Altötting, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 38, and was buried in Raitenhaslach, Altötting, Bavaria, Germany.
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Some characteristic forenames: Italian Salvatore, Pasquale, Rocco, Umberto, Amerigo, Angelo, Carlo, Domenic, Ennio, Gaetano, Gerlando, Gino. French Laurent, Camille, Girard.
Italian: from visconte, a title of rank (medieval Latin vicecomes ‘deputy of a count’). Unusually (since most noble families took their surnames from their estates), the surname was sometimes of literal application, but without doubt it is also in part a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces, and in part a metonymic occupational name for someone in the employ of a viscount. This surname is also found in southern France.
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