Alliata (noble family)
Alliata or Agliata (older version) is the name of an Italian noble family that has flourished to this day and belongs to the high nobility . The family from Pisa came to Sicily in one line and rose to princely and ducal dignities there.
history
In Pisa the merchant family Alliata lived in their still preserved palazzo from the 11th / 12th. Century. With the descent of the Republic of Pisa in the 14th century went Fillippo Alliata as a banker and business magnate to Palermo , while other branches in Tuscany remained resident. The Sicilian branch acquired numerous fiefs as well as seven principalities, two duchies, a margravate and numerous baronies. It is still in bloom today, while the Tuscan branch died out at the beginning of the 20th century and was inherited by the Counts della Gherardesca .
At the end of the 15th century Antonio Alliata († 1561) from the Sicilian branch was enfeoffed with the Barony Villafranca , which was enfeoffed in 1609 by the Spanish King Philip III. who was king of Sicily and Naples at the same time , was raised to a principality for his grandson Francesco Alliata (1573–1636) with the dignity of a Spanish grandee . In 1625 he also became Duke of Salaparuta . He was also raised to hereditary imperial prince (with the salutation Your Highness ).
Don Giuseppe Alliata, 4th Principe di Villafranca (1684-1727), married Donna Anna Maria Di Giovanni in 1710, 4th Principessa di Buccheri, 2nd Principe di Castrorao and Principessa di Trecastagne. Her son Don Domenico Alliata (1712–1774), who also inherited the maternal title, married Donna Vittoria Di Giovanni, Principessa di Montereale and Principessa di Ucria, whereby these prince titles also fell to the Alliata.
From the 17th century to 1838 the Alliata held the post of Hereditary Postmaster of the Kingdom of Sicily. Its seat was the Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca in Palermo. The Palazzo Alliata di Pietratagliata was also owned by the Alliata as heir of the dates family , princes of Baucina . From the Valguarnera family, princes of Niscemi , the Alliata inherited the Villa Valguarnera at the end of the 19th century , which they still own today.
The current head of the family is the director Francesco Alliata (1919–2015), he has the historical titles Principe di Villafranca e del Sacro Romano Impero, Duca di Salaparuta, Principe di Valguarnera e di Montereale, di Ucria, Trecastagni, Buccheri, Castrorao e Saponara (Altezza Serenissima, Grande di Spagna di prima classe) .
In addition to the Filangeri , Gravina , Lancia , Moncada , Notarbartolo , Paternò , Spucches , Stagno , Tomasi di Lampedusa , Valguarnera and Ventimiglia , the Alliata are among the great princely houses in the former Kingdom of Sicily . After the famous novel The Gattopardo , these are sometimes referred to as The Leopards .
Known family members
- Giuseppe Alliata (1684–1727), 4th Principe di Villafranca, Imperial Field Marshal
- Domenico Alliata (1712–1774), Kgl. Sicilian field marshal
- Raniero Alliata di Pietratagliata (1886–1979), Italian intellectual, entomologist and theosophist
- Francesco Alliata di Villafranca (1919–2015), film producer, director
literature
- A. Mango di Casalgerardo, Il nobiliario di Sicilia , Palermo, 1915, full. 2, passim;
- F. San Martino de Spucches, La storia dei feudi e dei titoli nobiliari di Sicilia , Palermo, 1924, full. 10, passim;
- M. Ganci, I grandi titoli del Regno di Sicilia, Palermo - Siracusa, 1988, p. 209;
- V. Palizzolo Gravina, Dizionario storico-araldico della Sicilia , II ed., Palermo, 1991, p. 227;
- Marco Tangheroni, Gli Alliata. Una Famiglia pisana del medioevo , CEDAM, 1969, p. 5 e seguenti
- Giovanna Bongiorno, Gli Alliata Principi di Villafranca e Duchi di Salaparuta - La ruta e la vite , Kronos, 2001
Web links
- History of Sicilian Peerage (en.)
- History of Trecastagni (en.)
- Tribe list Alliata
- Famiglie Nobili di Sicilia (it.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marco Tangheroni, Gli Alliata. Una Famiglia pisana del medioevo , CEDAM editore, 1969, p. 5 e seguenti ( ISBN 88-13-23319-1 ).
- ^ A b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume IV, 1956, p. 351.