Landi (noble family)
Landi is the name of a patrician family from Piacenza who rose to the Italian nobility .
In 1551 the Landi were raised to margraves by Emperor Charles V and, in one line, to imperial princes.
history
Little is known about the origin of the Landi from Piacenza. It is believed that a Rodolfo Landi is her progenitor . As early as the 12th century, various Landi families became extinct, and their possible connection can no longer be reconstructed. It is speculated that they might descend from an ancestor named Lando or Orlando. However, this cannot be proven.
Many Landi took on public functions in Piacenza and other cities. It is possible that individual branches were involved in banking. In any case, in the 13th century one branch came to considerable prosperity, from which a Guglielmo I descended, who was elected Podestà of Vicenza and later of Milan . His son Giannone officiated as Podestà in Vercelli , whose sons were Guglielmo II and Ubertino (or Umberto). In the course of the 13th century, the family succeeded in acquiring some dominions on the Ligurian-Emilian Apennines .
The family split into several lines, the best known being that of Compiano , descended from Giannone Landi, a great-grandson of Rodolfo. In the Valle del Ceno, Ubertino Landi from Piacenza acquired the castle of Compiano and the neighboring castle of Bardi in 1257 . In 1551 the Landi there received from Emperor Charles V the marchesat and the privilege to strike coins.
Since the 13th century, the Landi family owned a large part of the Val di Taro (Valley of the Taro ) in what is now the province of Parma , in what was then the Papal State. They competed with the Fieschi from Genoa for supremacy over the Repubblica di Borgo Val di Taro . 1547 Fieschi were ousted because of an uprising in Genoa and Agostino Landi was in 1551 for his services by Emperor Charles V to princes charged by Val di Taro.
From 1551 to 1582 the Landi were princes of the Val di Taro . Their principality is also called Lo Stato Landi ; although this term is not widely used, there is extensive documentation in the Apostolic Archives , in the Vatican . In 1582 their lands there were turned over to Ottavio Farnese because of a failed conspiracy against the Farnese family , some thirty years before the better-known Sanvitale conspiracy. Agostino's younger son Claudio Landi, Prince of Val di Taro, conspired with Giambattista Anguissola and Giammaria and Cammillo Scotti to murder Farnese, but the plot was exposed; Landi lost the Val di Taro and his co-conspirators were murdered. Landi was stripped of his titles in 1578 and sentenced to death in 1580. However, being a prince of the Holy Roman Empire , he was not subjected to the judgment of an ordinary court. On September 27, 1583, he was pardoned by Emperor Rudolf II , who also ordered the return of Landi's confiscated lands, but this did not happen. It was not until the 17th century that the family was reinstated in their full ancestral princely rights over the Val di Taro.
Claudio's daughter, Maria Landi, married Ercole Grimaldi , Lord of Monaco , on September 15, 1595 . After Ercole was murdered in 1604, Maria's brother, Federico Landi († 1630), became the guardian of her son Honoré, who became lord and later Prince of Monaco at the age of six.
Prince Federico Landi († 1630) was a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece . He had an heir, Maria Polissena († 1679), who married the Genoese Giovanni Andrea II Doria , prince of Melfi. Together they founded the Doria-Landi house in 1626 . Maria Polissena's son Giovanni Andrea III. Doria-Landi became prince of Melfi and Val di Taro. In 1671 he married Anna Pamphilij von Gubbio , the heiress of the famous Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj in Rome and large estates. In 1646, under pressure from Urban VIII , the Doria-Landi had to cede the Val di Taro to the Farnese family , who incorporated it into their Duchy of Parma . The Roman branch of the Pamphilj family died out in 1760 with Girolamo Pamphilj. In 1763 Prince Andrea IV. Doria-Landi therefore adopted the name Doria – Pamphilj – Landi . This line also expired in 2000 with Donna Orietta, the only daughter of Prince Filippo Doria Pamphilj Landi; the palazzo in Rome with its famous art collection was inherited by their adopted children Jonathan and Gesine, who were also given the name Doria – Pamphilj – Landi .
The Landi zu Bardi and Compiano died out in 1682 and their property fell to their rival Farnese .
Individual evidence
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- ↑ LANDI in "Enciclopedia Italiana". Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
- ^ Miscellanea Historiae Pontificiae . Gregorian Biblical BookShop ( google.de [accessed April 7, 2017]).
- ^ Archivio storico italiano . Leo S. Olschki, January 1, 1863 ( google.de [accessed April 7, 2017]).
- ↑ LANDI, Claudio in "Dizionario Biografico". Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
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- ^ Onorato II Grimaldi principe di Monaco nell'Enciclopedia Treccani. Retrieved April 7, 2017 .
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