{{Infobox noble
, name = Iacopo III Appiano
, title = VI Lord of Piombino
, image =Arms of the house of Aragona-Appiano.svg
, caption =Variant of the Appiano coat of arms used by Iacopo III his successors as descendants of
Alfonso V of Aragon
Alfonso the Magnanimous (Alfons el Magnànim in Catalan language, Catalan) (139627 June 1458) was King of Aragon and King of Sicily (as Alfons V) and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfons I) from 1442 until his ...
Count palatine
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, noble family = Appiano
, house-type =
, father = Emanuele Appiano
, mother =Colia de' Giudici
, birth_name =
, birth_date = 1439
, birth_place =
Piombino
Piombino is an Italian town and ''comune'' of about 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno (Tuscany). It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma.
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Piombino
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Lord of Piombino
The Lordship of Piombino (''Signoria di Piombino''), and after 1594 the Principality of Piombino (''Principato di Piombino''), was a small state on the Italian peninsula centered on the town of Piombino and including part of the island of Elba ...
(1439 - 10 March 1474) was an Italian nobleman.
Biography
Iacopo Appiano was born in 1439 in
Piombino
Piombino is an Italian town and ''comune'' of about 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno (Tuscany). It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma.
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, son of Emanuele Appiano, Lord of Piombino, and Colia de' Giudici, natural daughter of
Alfonso V of Aragon
Alfonso the Magnanimous (Alfons el Magnànim in Catalan language, Catalan) (139627 June 1458) was King of Aragon and King of Sicily (as Alfons V) and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfons I) from 1442 until his ...
, King of Naples.
He became Lord of Piombino and Lord of the others family feuds in 1458, on the death of his father.{{Cite book , last=Meli , first=Patrizia , title=Il principie e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento: il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa , last2=Tognetti , first2=Sergio , date=2006 , publisher=Olschki , isbn=978-88-222-5590-7 , series=Studi e testi / Archivi di Santa Maria del Fiore , location=Firenze , pages=17-20
Despite the economic difficulties, he tried to show himself as a patron of the arts, in particular, he hired the architect and sculptor Andrea Guardi, to whom he commissioned many works between 1465 and 1470: the construction of the
Citadel
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to replace Appiano Palace, the Appiano chapel, a series of hydraulic works and the cloister with baptismal font of
Sant'Antimo
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.
Of poor health, in 1463 he fell ill with
quartan fever
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It is specifically caused by the ''Plasmodium malariae'' species, one of the six species of the protozoan genus ''Plasmodium''. Quartan fever is a form of malaria ...
, recovering from it (also thanks to the sending from Siena of renowned doctors such as Bartolo di Tura Bandini) but without ever fully recovering.{{Cite book , last=Meli , first=Patrizia , title=Il principie e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento: il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa , last2=Tognetti , first2=Sergio , date=2006 , publisher=Olschki , isbn=978-88-222-5590-7 , series=Studi e testi / Archivi di Santa Maria del Fiore , location=Firenze , pages=60-64
Iacopo III Appiano died on 10 March 1474, in Piombino, due to the consequences of
malaria
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. A few months earlier, the same disease had killed his wife.
Issue
In 1454 Jacopo III Appiano married Battistina Fregoso (1432- 18 December 1473), daughter of the
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of the
Republic of Genoa
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Pietro Fregoso
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Biography
His birth date is not known precisely but his father was Rolando ...
and maternal half-sister of Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci.Ambrogio Pesce, ''Le trattative per il matrimonio di Battistina Fregoso con Iacopo III Appiani'' (1454), in ''Archivio Storico Italiano'', LXXI, n. 1, 1913, pp. 132-141.{{Cite book , last=Litta , first=Pompeo (1781-1851) Auteur du texte , url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84522816 , title=Famiglie celebri di Italia. Appiani di Pisa / P. Litta , language=EN
They had five sons and one daughter:
* Emanuele Appiano. Died in infancy.
* Iacopo IV Appiano (1459-1510). VII Lord of Piombino and
Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
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Giuliano de' Medici
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(1453-1478), brother of the Lord of
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Lorenzo the Magnificent
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. Giuliano died before the wedding, so she married his cousin,
Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici
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, instead. She had three sons and two daughters.
* Belisario Appiano (1465-1515). Feudal lord. He married Aurelia Sforza di Santa Fiora and gave birth to the branch Appiano of Populonia.
Prince of Piombino
The Lordship of Piombino (''Signoria di Piombino''), and after 1594 the Principality of Piombino (''Principato di Piombino''), was a small state on the Italian peninsula centered on the town of Piombino and including part of the island of Elba. ...