Boncompagni-Ludovisi

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Boncompagni-Ludovisi coat of arms

The Boncompagni-Ludovisi are an old Italian noble family .

Originally a patrician family from Bologna , the family with Gregorio XIII. (1502–1585) a Pope. He made his natural son Giacomo Duke of Sora and Arce. So that the family went to Titularfürsten of the Papal States on. In 1681 she was married to the Principality of Piombino near Pisa, which she ruled until 1815. The Princely House of Boncompagni-Ludovisi still exists today.

history

Giovanni Boncompagni , mentioned in a document in 1300, is considered to be the progenitor of the family . Giacomo Boncompagni (1548–1612), an illegitimate son of Ugo Buoncompagni , later Pope Gregorio XIII. was legitimized on August 26, 1572. In 1578 he was endowed as a nepote by his father with the Marchesat Vignola near Modena , in 1580 with the Ducato di Sora and in 1583 with the Ducato Arce (both today in the province of Frosinone ).

Gregorio Boncompagni , duca di Sora etc., (1642–1707) took on the name Boncompagni-Ludovisi (1681) after his marriage to Ippolita Ludovisi , the sister and heiress of the last Prince of Piombino (province of Pisa ) from the house of Ludovisi. His daughter Maria Eleonora married Gregorio's younger brother, her cousin Antonio Boncompagni-Ludovisi . From this marriage come the line of the subsequent princes of Piombino and the (later extinct) line of the Duchi di Fiano .

The Principality of Piombino counted as a historical flags fief to the direct imperial territories of the Holy Roman Empire in Italy (so-called Empire Italy ). Since the principality had no seat and vote on the Reichstag HRR, it was neither sovereign before 1735 nor after it, when it came under the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Naples as a new liege lord. The princes Boncompagni-Ludovisi lived mostly in Rome or on their country estate Castello Boncompagni-Viscogliosi in Isola del Liri . The Principality of Piombino was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Toscana by Art. 100 of the final act of the Congress of Vienna on June 9, 1815 , the Boncompagni-Ludovisi received compensation and continued to use the title Principe di Piombino . Consequently, in the court calendar of 1917, they are correctly entered in the III. Department listed ("Genealogy of other, not sovereign princely houses of Europe").

Don Francesco Maria Boncompagni-Ludovisi (* 1965) today holds the title of 15th Duke of Sora in accordance with family tradition .

Principe Don Paolo Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (1886–1960) married Stefania Bourbon del Monte dei Marchesi del Monte Santa Maria in 1910 , heiress of Trevinano Castle in Acquapendente , since then the seat of this branch of the family. When her grandson Paolo Francesco (1947–2007) married Donna Angela Maria dei Duchi Altemps , the name Altemps passed on to her son, Principe Don Alessandro Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli-Altemps, Duca d'Altemps (* 1972) , married to Donna Maria Carolina dei Conti Zucchini Metelli since 2013 .

coat of arms

Blazon of the coat of arms of the Boncompagni-Ludovisi family: “Divided, above in red a growing, winged, golden dragon (Boncompagni), below in red three shortened golden diagonal bars at the dividing line (Ludovisi); Princely hat and coat. "

In another version, the dragon is floating as a trunk in the upper field: Spaccato nel 1 ° di rosso al drago reciso e spiegato d'oro, nel secondo di rosso a tre bande d'oro, scorciate e ritirate in capo - divided, in 1 of red with a trimmed, (wing) spread [spiegato] golden dragon, in the second (field) of red with three inclined bars of gold, shortened and withdrawn into the head of the shield.

Important representatives

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Italian crest page (Stemmario Italiano: Coat Research - Boncompagni-Ludovisi)

Web links

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