The House of Mancini was the name of one of the oldest families of Roman nobility.[1] Their titles and fiefs were numerous: Duke of Nevers and Donzy, Prince of Vergagne and of the Holy Roman Empire with the treatment of Serene Highness, French Peer, Spanish Grandee, Marquis of Fusignano, Count of Montefortino, Viscount of Clamecy, Baron of Tardello, Tumminii and Ogliastro, Lord of Claye-Souilly, Roman noble and Venetian patrician.
Of Roman origin, the family has thousand-year roots in Italy, and traditionally asserts a line of descent from the gens Hostilia, whose line took the surname Mancinus, all the way back to Lucius Hostilius Mancinus who was consul in 145 BC and a commander of the Roman fleet during the Third Punic War.
History
The coat of arms of the House of Mancini de Lucij The coat of arms of the House of Mancini-Mazarini
Naples line
The Naples line was descended from Domenico Nicola Mancini who was nominated Marquis of Fusignano by the Prince Francesco of Este, son of the Duke Alfonso of Este, and he moved to the Kingdom of Naples in 1527; Domenico Nicola III, 5° Marquis of Fusignano gained the title of Count Mancini in 1745 by the Pope Benedict XIV; it had as most important member the Count Pasquale Stanislao Mancini (1817–1888), 8° Marquis of Fusignano, illustrious jurist, writer and three times Minister of The Kingdom of Italy (public education, justice and foreign affairs).
The Mancini family was called de Lucij (or simply Lucij)[2][3] in Rome for the fishes on its coat of arms. Many of the members were "Conservatori all'Urbe". The first known member of the family is Lucio Mancini who lived in 990. In the centuries the family had various lines that thrived with nobility everywhere, particularly at Fermo where the first memories go back to 1160 giving to the city Priori, Consoli, Gonfalonieri and Dottori, but the most important are the Sicily line and the Nevers line.
Sicily line
The Sicily line: a) was descended from Giacomo Mancini who moved to Sicily in 1256 to run away at Vitelleschi persecutions; Barons of Tardello, Tumminii and Ogliastro were descended from him. This line was extinguished in the 17th century. b) was descended from Francesco Mancini, consanguineous of the Cardinal Giulio Mazzarino, who moved to Catania in the 17th century as Attorney-General of the Prince Marco Antonio Colonna and his wife Isabella Gioeni. Mancini family flourished in Catania in the following centuries, so that the Town-Council dedicated streets and squares to Mancini's family. At present the surname of the family is Mancini de Lucij.
Nevers Line
The Nevers line: was illustrated by many eminent people:
A. Paolo (1580–1637), founder of the "Accademia degli Umoristi",[4] which was attended by such literary men as Giovanni Battista Guarini, Gian Battista Marino and Alessandro Tassoni; he was the father of:
1. Lorenzo (1602–1650), Roman baron, necromancer and astrologer, married Girolama Mazzarini, Cardinal Mazarin's sister. After his death, his widow took their children to Paris in the hope of using her famous brother's influence to gain advantageous marriages for them, a goal which was quite successful. Lorenzo was the father of:
d. Philippe Mancini (1641–1707), nominated Duke of Nevers and Donzy by his uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, with the prerogative to strike coins, in 1660. He was a knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit and Lieutenant of the First Company of Musketeers of the King; his successor in the charge was the Count D'Artagnan; he was the grandfather of:
The family coat of arms inspired the heraldry of the French commune of Liernais.
San Vittore line
Collateral line of the illustrious and old Mancini family, subline of the Naples line, initiated in the 19th century by the Count Antonio Filippo Luigi (1824–1890), first lieutenant of the Neapolitan Army. The son Giuseppe Alessandro Luigi (1852–1903), Belle-Epoque dandy, married donna Maria Antonietta Marinelli (1862–1911), daughter of the noble Vittorio Leonardo of the marquesses Marinelli, in 1882; they had seven children along which Carlo Alberto Antonio (1883–1940), horse owner who married a noblewoman of german descent, Maria Concetta Cassone Simeoni-Wrbna, patrician of Benevento (1886–1965) in 1911.
They had Antonio Eugenio Andrea (1915–1990), officer of the Italian Army, he was aide-de-camp of MarshalRodolfo Graziani in 1938, and during the Second World War fought in the VIII Army Corps on the Greek-Albanian battlefront; in 1943 he was caught by the Germans in Yugoslavia and he was confined at Hohenstein in Saxony, but he escaped; then he got the Military Cross.
T. Amayden, La Storia delle Famiglie Romane ( con note ed aggiunte di C. A. Bertini ), Roma 1907
Giovan Battista di Crollalanza, Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti, vol. II, ed. A. Forni, Bologna 1886-1890
Claudio Rendina, Le Grandi Famiglie di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, 2004
De la Chenaye-Desbois,Dictionnaire de la Noblesse seconde edition Tome 9, Paris 1775, p.468,469,672,673
Pompilio Dottore, Mariano Bocchini, "I Conti Mancini di San Vittore", Delta3 Edizioni, 2020
Pompilio Dottore, "Il Casato Mancini", Delta3 Edizioni, 2022
Pompilio Dottore, "I Mancini e il Castello di San Vittore (Album fotografico)", Delta3 Edizioni, 2024
Giuseppe TricoliLa Deputazione degli Stati e la crisi del Baronaggio Siciliano Fondazione Culturale <<Lauro Chiazzese>> della Cassa di Risparmio V.E. per le Province Siciliane, Palermo 1966, p.299
Mariano Foti Ognina, storia ricerche impressioni, Edizioni Chiesa-Mondo, Catania 1996, p.191-194
Notes
↑ La Longa Mancini, Federico. "Famiglia Mancini - Origini". www.nobili-napoletani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 9 August 2014.
↑ Karl Schellhass, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken. Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, M. Niemeyer, 1993
↑ Claudio Rendina. Le grandi famiglie di Roma. Roma, 2004
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