Filangeri (noble family)

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Filangeri coat of arms (in Sicily); Family arms and arms of the line in Campania (Naples) without the bells

Filangeri (also Filangieri, Filingeri ) is the name of an Italian noble family who played an important role in southern Italy (in the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily ) since the 11th century .

history

According to tradition, the family should go back to a Norman nobleman named Ruggero d'Arnes († 1023) who belonged to the Norman ducal house of Hauteville or was close to him. This is said to have had three sons who left Normandy and took part in the Norman conquest of southern Italy : Turgisio († 1081), who was appointed Count of San Severino and Rota and founded the Sanseverino family , Silvano , who joined Robert Guiskard and the Gravina family founded and Angerio († 1081), who probably also belonged to the Guiskards gang and received the castles Cava de 'Tirreni and Nocera as a fief . The four sons of this Angerio were called (in Latin) Filii Angerii (sons of Angerio): Robert, Wilhelm, Roger and Tankred and thus founded the Filangeri family .

Line in Campania

In the first half of the 13th century, at the time of the rule of the Hohenstaufen in the Kingdom of Sicily , Richard Filangieri († between 1254 and 1263), Lord of Pozzuoli , was Marshal of the Roman Emperor and Sicilian King Frederick II. He took part in 1228 with 500 fighters participated in the Sixth Crusade , became governor in 1229 and Bailli of Jerusalem in 1235 . However, he later fell out of favor and spent years in dungeon and exile; only after the death of the emperor was he able to return to southern Italy in 1251 and headed the anti-Staufer party ( Guelphs ) of Naples , where he served as Podestà from November 1251 to October 1252 . His brother Giordano II Filangieri married a sister of the Count of Ischia and Geraci in 1234 and received the Lordship of Candida as a dowry . His son Alduino Filangieri di Candida († 1283) acquired the dominions Solofra and Abriola by marrying Giordana von Tricarico . When Queen Johanna II enfeoffed her favorite Sergianni Caracciolo (approx. 1372–1432) with Candida, who was married to Caterina Filangieri de Candida (approx. 1399–1432), Contessa di Avellino, a bloody feud broke out with them in 1426 Relatives Filippo Filangieri, which he lost, which is why the Caracciolo remained masters of Candida until 1806. The line of Count Filangieri de Candida is still in bloom today and owns the Villa Filangieri in San Paolo Bel Sito and the Palazzo Filangieri de Candida in San Potito Sannitico . The philosopher Gaetano Filangieri (1752–1788) and his son, General Carlo Filangieri , Prince of Satriano and Duke of Taormina (1784–1867 ) descended from the line of the Princes of Arianiello (based in the Villa Eva in Cava de 'Tirreni ) ).

Line in Sicily

Abbo Filangieri founded the Sicilian line of the family in the 13th century, which was divided into three branches:

  • Counts of San Marco (1398–1803) and (since 1642) Prince of Mirto : Don Pietro Filangeri, 7th Count of San Marco, had married Francesca De Spucches , heiress of Amorosa, Villafrate, Claristello and Molizzano, and was Prince of Mirto has been raised. The title passed in 1830 through Vittoria Filangeri di Mirto, 7th Principessa di Mirto, to the Lanza family . Residences included the palace in Villafrati , the Palazzo Mirto in Palermo (bequeathed to the region of Sicily as a museum in 1982) and the Villa San Marco in Santa Flavia .
  • Counts of Suttafari and Princes of Santa Flavia : Don Pietro († 1704), descendant of a younger branch of the Counts of San Marco and 1st Conte di Suttafari, acquired the fiefdom of Santa Flavia and was raised to prince in 1684. Since 1666 the residence was the Villa Filangeri in Santa Flavia. Pietro Filangieri founded the Academy of Good Taste in 1718 in his Palazzo Santa Flavia (today Palazzo Ramacca) in Via Maqueda in Palermo . The line is extinguished with Donna Maddalena (1756-1821), 4th Principessa di Santa Flavia, 4th Contessa di Suttafari, the titles and inheritance passed to her son from her marriage to Don Francesco Alessandro Gravina , Principe di Ramacca .
  • Barons of Miserendino and Princes of Cutò: Giuseppe, younger brother of the 7th Conte di San Marco, bought the Miserendino fief. This title came to the branch through the marriage of Don Alessandro Filingieri, 3rd Barone di Miserendino, Marchese di Lucca (* 1644) with Donna Giulia Platamone, daughter of Don Francesco Platamone, who was elected Prince of Cutò in 1641. This went out with Donna Giovanna Filangieri (1850-1891), 9th Principessa di Cutò, 4th Duchessa di San Martino, 4th Duchessa di Fabbrica, 9th Marchesa di Lucca, 10th Baronessa di Miserendino etc., who with Lucio Mastrogiovanni Tasca , Conte di Almerita, was married. The titles went to her son Don Alessandro Mastrogiovanni Tasca (1874-1943), whose line in turn went out with his son Alessandro Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filingieri, 11th Principe di Cutò, Duca di San Martino (1906-2000). One of Donna Giovanna's four daughters was the mother of the writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa . The branch's residences included the Palazzo Filangeri-Cutò in Santa Margherita di Belice (model for Donnafugata in Lampedusa's novel Der Gattopardo ), the Palazzo Cutò in Palermo and, since 1803, the Palazzo Cutò in Bagheria , which Lampedusa inherited and sold in 1923.

Known family members

Palaces of the Filangieri House

literature

Web links

Commons : House of Filangieri  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Storia dei Filangieri di Cutò