Ventimiglia family

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Arms of the house of Ventimiglia.svg Arms of the house of Ventimiglia di Geraci.svg
Left: Ventimiglia del Maro
Right: Ventimiglia di Geraci
Parent familyVentimiglia
Founded VII - X century

The Ventimiglia family was an old Italian noble family of Liguria. [1] Descendants of the family held positions and titles of nobility in Sicily in Mediaeval times and later. [2]

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Members of the family

Castle of Castelbuono, near Palermo Castelbuono1.jpg
Castle of Castelbuono, near Palermo
Stately "Osterio Magno", at Cefalu, chief town of sicilian dominion of Ventimiglia lineage. Built in the 13th century by count Enrico II Ventimiglia, general vicarious of Manfred, King of Sicily. Cefalu-Osterio-Magno-bjs2007-03.jpg
Stately "Osterio Magno", at Cefalù, chief town of sicilian dominion of Ventimiglia lineage. Built in the 13th century by count Enrico II Ventimiglia, general vicarious of Manfred, King of Sicily.

Lascaris di Ventimiglia

Arms of Lascaris at the Ventimiglia palace, Nice, France Lascaris02,escalier d'honneur01.jpg
Arms of Lascaris at the Ventimiglia palace, Nice, France

A branch line, the Lascaris di Ventimiglia, Conti di Tenda, is descended in female line from the Lascaris family of the Empire of Nicaea through the marriage in 1261 of Guglielmo Pietro I, Conte di Ventimiglia, Signore de Tenda (d. 1282) with Eudokia Laskarina (1248–1311), daughter of Emperor Theodore II Laskaris and his wife Princess Elena of Bulgaria. [5]

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References

  1. Pietro Corrao (2020). Ventimiglia (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 98. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed September 2022.
  2. Ventimìglia (in Italian). Enciclopedia on line (in Italian). Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2019.
  3. Maria Antonietta Russo, Giovanni I Ventimiglia: un uomo al servizio della monarchia, "Archivio Storico Siciliano", s. 4., 34-35 (2008-2009), p. 43-93.
  4. Grazia Fallico (2000). Geraci, Giovanni Ventimiglia, marchese di (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 53. Roma: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed July 2019.
  5. The History of the Col de Tenda, W.A.B. Coolidge, The English Historical Review, Vol. XXXI, ed. Reginald Lane Poole, (Longmans, Green and Co., 1916), 202.

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