House of Pignatelli

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The House of Pignatelli is the name an old and prominent Neapolitan family of Italian nobility, clergy, men of arts and sciences, whose members occupied significant positions in 18th and 19th century. The family has been regionally prominent since the 13th century. Among various titles, they held the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. [1]

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History

A member of the family, Antonio Pignatelli (1615-1700) was pope with the name of Pope Innocent XII. They were Princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

The lineage includes numerous cardinals, viceroys of Sicily and a saint, Giuseppe Pignatelli di Fuentes (1737–1811), canonized in 1954 by Pius XII .

The inheritances in titles and affiliations of three great European genealogies gradually flowed into the family, the Aragona, the Tagliavia and the Cortés, so much so that in the end the representatives of the family bore all four surnames: "Pignatelli Aragona Tagliavia Cortés". [2]

Notable members

Cardinals

List of cardinals of the Pignatelli family, in chronological order:

As for Cardinal Stefano Pignatelli (1578-1623, created cardinal in 1621), he was originally from Piegaro (Perugia) and was not related to the Neapolitan family of the same name.

Branches

Princes of Castelvetrano (1564)

Diego Pignatelli d'Aragona Cortes, by Francesco Solimena, c. 1731-1732 or 1747 Diego Pignatelli d'Aragona Cortes.jpg
Diego Pignatelli d'Aragona Cortès, by Francesco Solimena, c. 1731–1732 or 1747

Recognition of Italian nobility ceased with the creation of the Italian Republic in 1946

Princes of Noia (1600)

Recognition of Italian nobility ceased with the creation of the Italian Republic in 1946

Princes of Belmonte (1619)

Princes of Monteroduni (1702)

Pignatelli Castle at Monteroduni Castello-di-monteroduni.jpg
Pignatelli Castle at Monteroduni

In 1702, Luigi Pignatelli (1658–1736), was created Prince of Monteroduni. Luigi was the son of Giovanni Pignatelli di Casalnuovo (1633–1693). [12] In 1843, the Pignatelli family of Monteroduni added the name of the extinct della Leonessa family to their own name following the marriage of Giovanni Pignatelli (1803–1865) to Carolina Ruffo della Leonessa (1814–1870). [13]

Recognition of Italian nobility ceased with the creation of the Italian Republic in 1946

Dukes of Monteleone (1527)

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Coat of arms of the Duke of Monteleone

Title passed to the Princes of Noia

Dukes of Terranova (1561)

Elevated to the Prince of Castelvetrano in 1564; passed into the Pignatelli family in 1692 [16]

Dukes of Bellosguardo (1625)

Title passed to the Princes of Noia

Marquesses of Cerchiara (1556)

Elevated to the Prince of Noia in 1600

Counts of Fuentes (1508)

The Spanish title, Count of Fuentes, passed to the Pignatelli family through the 16th Count's maternal grandfather, Juan Bartolomé Isidro de Moncayo y Palafox (1675–1745), 15th Count' [17]

See also

References

Notes
  1. ↑ Carlo was the father of Cardinal Simeone Tagliavia d'Aragona and Viceroy Ottavio d'Aragona.
  2. ↑ Giovanna married Niccolò Pignatelli (1648–1730), the Viceroy of Sicily who was a younger son of Giulio Pignatelli, 2nd Prince of Noia. [10]
  3. ↑ Through his daughter, Ippolita Pignatelli (1718–1760), he was a grandfather of Francesco d'Aquino, Prince of Caramanico (1738–1795), Ambassador to London and Paris for the Kingdom of Naples and, later, Viceroy of Sicily. [14]
  4. ↑ His younger brother, Riccardo Pignatelli della Leonessa (1859–1908), was Prince of Sepino.
  5. ↑ Girolama Pignatelli, Duchess of Monteleone was the wife of Fabrizio Pignatelli, 3rd Prince of Noia (1604–1664), eldest son of Giulio Pignatelli, 2nd Prince of Noia.
  6. ↑ Giacomo married Donna Fiorenza Vaez, 1st Duchess of Bellosguardo (1608–1650), the daughter of Benedetto Vaez, Duke of Bellosguardo. Their youngest son, Don Domenico Pignatelli (b. 1642), was created the 1st Marquess of San Vicente; he married Doña Ana de Aimeric-Cruïllas de Santa Pau i d'Argeñola, 2nd Marchioness of Aimerich.
  7. ↑ Margherita married her cousin, Don Diego Pignatelli de Aragon, 7th Prince of Noia, 9th Duke of Monteleone, etc.
Sources
  1. ↑ "Princes of the Holy Roman Empire". w.genealogy.euweb.cz.
  2. 1 2 Congestri', Giovanna (11 December 2015). Nascita e sviluppo di Monteleone nella Calabria medievale: saggio (in Italian). Meligrana Giuseppe Editore. ISBN   978-88-6815-173-7 . Retrieved 12 May 2025.
  3. ↑ Howse, Christopher (2013-02-22). "Why we won't get a bearded pope".
  4. ↑ Miranda, Salvador. "PIGNATELLI, seniore, Theat., Francesco (1652-1734)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University. OCLC   53276621.
  5. ↑ "Francesco Maria Cardinal Pignatelli (Jr.)". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
  6. ↑ Ritzler (1968). "Hierarchia Catholica Medii et Recentioris Aevi, VII, 8". Patavii : Typis et Sumptibus Domus Editorialis "Il Messaggero di S. Antonio" apud Basilicam S. Antonii, 1968.
  7. ↑ "Ferdinando Maria Cardinal Pignatelli". Catholic-Hierarchy.org . Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  8. ↑ Gambasin, Angelo (1979). Religiosa magnificenza e plebi in Sicilia nel XIX secolo (in Italian). p. 85. ISBN   9788884985231.
  9. ↑ Lentz III, Harris M. (11 July 2015). Popes and Cardinals of the 20th Century: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. p. 84. ISBN   978-1-4766-2155-5 . Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  10. ↑ Aldimari, Biagio (1691). Historia genealogica della famiglia Carafa pt 2. Stamperia di Giacomo Raillard. p. 314.
  11. ↑ Livio Serra di Gerace Genealogy Archives, volume 1 (1 March 2014). "History - The Pignatelli Princes of Monteroduni". www.oliopignatelli.com. Olio Pignatelli. Retrieved 28 May 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ "Monteroduni". www.pignatelli.org. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  13. ↑ "Family History". www.pignatellidellaleonessa.com. Pignatelli Della Leonessa. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  14. ↑ (in Italian) Antonello Scibilia, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. III (1961)
  15. ↑ "The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of July 8, 1839". cardinals.fiu.edu. Retrieved 28 May 2025.
  16. ↑ The Titled Nobility of Europe: An International Peerage, Or "Who's Who", of the Sovereigns, Princes and Nobles of Europe. Harrison & Sons. 1914. p. 108. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  17. 1 2 Proyectos, HI Iberia Ingeniería y. "Juan Joaquín Atanasio de Pignatelli de Aragón y Moncayo". historia-hispanica.rah.es (in Spanish). Historia Hispánica. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  18. ↑ "BOE-B-2009-35125 Anuncio de la Subsecretaría (División de Tramitación de Derechos de Gracia y otros Derechos), sobre solicitud de sucesión en el título de Conde de Fuentes, con Grandeza de España". www.boe.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 May 2025. Announcement from the Undersecretariat (Division for Processing Rights of Grace and Other Rights), regarding a request for succession to the title of Count of Fuentes, with Grandee of Spain.
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