Death and Legacy
Piccolomini died after an accident on 11 August 1656 (falling down from a horse). On 4 June 1651 he had married Maria Benigna Francisca of Saxe-Lauenburg, daughter of Duke Julius Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg. He left no legitime children (his only son Josef Silvio, was murdered by the Swedes after the battle of Jankov (near Votice, district Tábor) in the south Bohemia in 1645, whilst his son Max in Wallenstein is a fictional character invented by Schiller), and his titles and estates passed to his brother's son. He had two known illegitimate sons - Ascanio and Diego which had their descendants, one in Bohemia second in Italy. His son Ascanio died as a captain of infantry in the battle near Mirov in September 1643, while second son Diego died in Italy, gaining the title "don" and becoming a "nobile" married to Nobile Donna Maria Anna Tarragona Ruxoto. Ascanio himself had an illegitimate son with Liduska Nyvlt.
With the death of the latter's nephew Octavio Aeneas Josef in 1757, the line became extinct.
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