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Dukes Of Sora
The Duchy of Sora was a semi-independent state in Italy, created in 1443 by King Alfonso I of Naples and dissolved in 1796. It occupied the south-eastern part of what is today Lazio, bordering what is now Abruzzo. Its capital was first Sora, and later, under the Boncompagni family, Isola di Sora. List of Dukes * Nicola Cantelmo 1443–1454 * Piergiampaolo Cantelmo 1454–1463 * Occupied by the Papal States 1463–1472 della Rovere family * Leonardo della Rovere 1472–1475 * Giovanni della Rovere 1475–1501 * Francesco Maria I della Rovere 1501–1516 * William de Croÿ 1516–1528 * Francesco Maria I della Rovere 1528–1538 * Giulio della Rovere 1538–1578 * Francesco Maria II della Rovere 1578–1579 Boncompagni family * Giacomo Boncompagni 1579–1617 * Gregorio I Boncompagni 1617–1628 * Giovan Giacomo Boncompagni 1628–1636 * Ugo I Boncompagni 1636–1676 * Gregorio II Boncompagni 1676–1707 * Antonio I Boncompagni 1707–1731 * Gaetano Boncompagni 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ducato Di Sora
Ducato can refer to: *the Italian word for a duchy, derived from the Latin ''ducatus'' *the former coin ducat, called after the dogal (i.e. 'ducal') state of Venice *a family name, and things named after its members, notably Danielducato after the Italian (Sardinian) amateur astronomer ''Daniela Ducato'' * Fiat Ducato, Fiat ''Ducato'', a model of van * Lefkada, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea also called "Ducato" See also *Cape Ducato (other) * Ducati (other) * Ducat (other) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Boncompagni
Giacomo Boncompagni (also ''Jacopo Boncompagni''; 8 May 1548 – 18 August 1612) was an Italian feudal lord of the 16th century, the illegitimate son of Pope Gregory XIII (Ugo Boncompagni). He was also Duke of Sora, Aquino, Arce and Arpino, and Marquess of Vignola. A member of the Boncompagni family, he was a patron of arts and culture. Pierluigi da Palestrina dedicated to him the first book of Madrigals. He was also a friend of another composer, Vincenzo Ruffo. He was also a lover of the theatre and of chess. Early years Giacomo Boncompagni was born in Bologna, the son of Ugo Boncompagni and his mistress from Carpi, Maddalena Fulchini. His father was in that city to participate in the Council of Trent during the period in which it had been moved there. He was legitimated on 5 July 1548 and entrusted to the Jesuits for education. When his father was elected pope in March 1572, Giacomo moved to Rome where, two months later, he was appointed castellan of Castel Sant'Ange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleone Orsini (condottiero)
Napoleone Orsini (c. 1420 – September 1480) was an Italian condottiero. The son of Orso Orsini of Bracciano, he fought for Pope Eugene IV against Francesco Sforza in 1443. Later, in the 1450s, he flanked Ferdinand of Aragon in the struggle between the Kingdom of Naples and the Duchy of Milan. Subsequently, Orsini fought against the rival baronial families of the Colonna and the Anguillara in the Lazio. In July 1461 Orsini, leading a contingent of Papal troops, was defeated by Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta at Castelleone di Suasa. The following year he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Papal Army and warred against Roberto Malatesta, lord of Rimini Rimini ( , ; or ; ) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. Sprawling along the Adriatic Sea, Rimini is situated at a strategically-important north-south passage along the coast at the southern tip of the Po Valley. It is ..., being wounded in the course of the campaign. Orsini did not take par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federico III Da Montefeltro
Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro KG (7 June 1422 – 10 September 1482), was one of the most successful mercenary captains (''condottieri'') of the Italian Renaissance, and lord of Urbino from 1444 (as Duke from 1474) until his death. A renowned intellectual humanist and civil leader in Urbino on top of his impeccable reputation for martial skill and honour, he commissioned the construction of a great library, perhaps the largest of Italy after the Vatican, with his own team of scribes in his scriptorium, and assembled around him a large humanistic court in the Ducal Palace, Urbino, designed by Luciano Laurana and Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Biography Federico was born in Castello di Petroia in Gubbio. Guidantonio da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino, Gubbio and Casteldurante, and Duke of Spoleto acknowledged Federico as his illegitimate son. Two years later he was legitimized by Pope Martin V, with the consent of Guidantonio's wife, Caterin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Pius II
Pope Pius II (, ), born Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (; 18 October 1405 – 14 August 1464), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 August 1458 to his death in 1464. Aeneas Silvius was an author, diplomat, and orator, and private secretary of Antipope Felix V and then the Emperor Frederick III, and then Pope Eugenius IV. He participated in the Council of Basel, but left it in 1443 to follow Frederick, whom he reconciled to the Roman obedience. He became Bishop of Trieste in 1447, Bishop of Siena in 1450, and a cardinal in 1456. He was a Renaissance humanist with an international reputation. Aeneas Silvius' longest and most enduring work is the story of his life, the ''Commentaries'', which was the first autobiography of a pope to have been published. It appeared posthumously, in 1584, 120 years after his death. Early life Aeneas was born in Corsignano in Sienese territory of a noble but impoverished family. His father Silvio was a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Count Of Alvito
The Duchy of Alvito was a fiefdom of the Kingdom of Naples, in southern Italy. Rule of the Cantelmo The Cantelmo family, of French origins, arrived in Italy in the 13th century around the time the Capetian House of Anjou, Angevins conquered Naples (1266). From the Angevins, the Cantelmo received several castles and fiefs around Alvito, Lazio, Alvito in what is now the Comino Valley, Valcomino, dominated by the numerous fiefs of the powerful regional monasteries (such as Monte Cassino and Abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno, San Vincenzo al Volturno), as well as by the rival family of the Counts of Aquino. Rostaino and his successors tried unsuccessfully to extend their control over the whole region in the 14th century. They sided with Queen Joan II of Naples but were defeated by the troops of Charles III of Naples, Charles of Durazzo. In a document of 1384, Giacomo IV is mentioned as "lord of the lands of Alvito". During the turmoil caused by the succession of Ladislaus of Naples ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Naples
The Kingdom of Naples (; ; ), officially the Kingdom of Sicily, was a state that ruled the part of the Italian Peninsula south of the Papal States between 1282 and 1816. It was established by the War of the Sicilian Vespers (1282–1302). Until then, the island of Sicily and southern Italy had constituted the "Kingdom of Sicily". When the island of Sicily revolted and was conquered by the Crown of Aragon, it become a separate kingdom also called the Kingdom of Sicily. This left the Neapolitan mainland in the possession of Charles of Anjou who continued to use the name "Kingdom of Sicily". Later, two competing lines of the Angevin family competed for the Kingdom of Naples in the late 14th century, which resulted in the murder of Joanna I at the hands of her successor, Charles III of Naples. Charles' daughter Joanna II adopted King Alfonso V of Aragon as heir, who would then unite Naples into his Aragonese dominions in 1442. As part of the Italian Wars, France briefly r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fief
A fief (; ) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a form of feudal allegiance, services or payments. The fees were often lands, land revenue or revenue-producing real property like a watermill, held in feudal land tenure: these are typically known as fiefs or fiefdoms. However, not only land but anything of value could be held in fee, including governmental office, rights of exploitation such as hunting, fishing or felling trees, monopolies in trade, money rents and tax farms. There never existed a standard feudal system, nor did there exist only one type of fief. Over the ages, depending on the region, there was a broad variety of customs using the same basic legal principles in many variations. Terminology In ancient Rome, a " benefice" (from the Latin noun , meaning "benefit") was a gift of land () f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio II Boncompagni
Don Antonio II Boncompagni-Ludovisi, then Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 15 January/16 June 1735 – Rome, 26 April 1805), was the 8th Duke of Sora, Aquino, Arce and Arpino and 9th Marquess of Vignola and the Prince of Piombino, Marquis of Populonia, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, Lord di Scarlino, Populonia, Vignale, Abbadia del Fango, Suvereto, Buriano, Cerboli e Palmaiolan, and Lord prince of the Tuscan Archipelago including the islands of Elba, Montecristo, Pianosa, Gorgona, Capraia, and Isola del Giglio, from 1733 until he ceded the duchy in 1796 and was deposed in the principality on 21 March 1801 and in the marquessate during the Napoleonic Wars {{Infobox military conflict , conflict = Napoleonic Wars , partof = the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , image = Napoleonic Wars (revision).jpg , caption = Left to right, top to bottom:Battl .... He was the eldest son of Don Gaetano I Boncompagni Ludovisi, Princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaetano Boncompagni
Gaetano I Boncompagni Ludovisi (1706–1777) was VII Duke of Sora and the Prince of Piombino, Marquis of Populonia, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, Lord di Scarlino, Populonia, Vignale, Abbadia del Fango, Suvereto, Buriano, Cerboli e Palmaiolan, and Lord prince of the Tuscan Archipelago including the islands of Elba, Montecristo, Pianosa, Gorgona, Capraia, and Isola del Giglio, from 1745 until 1777. Biography He was the eldest son of Antonio I Boncompagni (1658–1731), VI Duke of Sora and Maria Eleonora I Boncompagni (1686–1745), and inherited the titles of both his parents. A declared supporter of the Spanish claims on Naples, just as his father had been, when Charles of Bourbon reconquered the Kingdom of Naples in 1734 during the War of the Polish Succession, Boncompagni was naturally to emerge as one of the most important characters of the new Kingdom of Naples. When Charles of Bourbon made his official entry into Naples, Boncompagni was designated, together wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio I Boncompagni
Antonio I Boncompagni (10 April 1658 – 28 January 1731) was an Italian nobleman and the 6th Duke of Sora. By his marriage, he also was Prince-Consort of Piombino. Biography He was the fourth son of Ugo, 4th Duke of Sora and Duchess Maria Ruffo di Bagnara. He grew up in the shadow of his three elder brothers, and was not expected to succeed his father. But when his eldest brother Gregorio only had daughters, and the two other brothers became clerics, it was decided in 1701 that Antonio would marry his brother's eldest daughter Maria Eleonora, to succeed his brother. Antonio and Maria Eleonora had five children: *Maria Olimpia (1703–1705) *Niccolo (1704–1709) *Francesca Cecilia (1705–1775), married Francesco Maria Carafa, IV principe di Belvedere *Gaetano (1706–1777), their successor *Pietro Gregorio (1709–1747), married Maria Francesca Ottoboni, II Duchess of Fiano Indeed, his brother died in January 1707, and Antonio became the next Duke of Sora. But he h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregorio II Boncompagni
Gregorio II Boncompagni (7 July 1642 – 1 January 1707) was an Italian nobleman and the 5th Duke of Sora. He was the great-grandson of Pope Gregory XIII Biography He was the eldest son of Ugo, 4th Duke of Sora and Duchess Maria Ruffo di Bagnara. He married Giustina Gallio (29 October 1644 – 21 July 1679) and then, when she died, he married Ippolita Ludovisi Ippolita I Ludovisi (Cagliari, 24 December 1663 – Rome, 29 December 1733) was the Princess of Piombino, Marchioness of Populonia, Princess of Venosa and Countess of Conza, Lady di Scarlino, Populonia, Vignale, Abbadia del Fango, Suvereto, Buria ... on 19 October 1681. The ''Boncompagni-Ludovisi'' union lasted until the French Revolution and included the development of the ''Archivio Boncompagni-Ludovisi'' held by The Vatican. Archivio Boncompagni-Ludovisi [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
