Sanseverino (noble family)

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Sanseverino coat of arms

The Sanseverino are one of the most famous families in southern Italian history, the first of the seven great houses of the Kingdom of Naples , with a branch line that also owned the Po Valley in the 15th century . The family came to a total of more than 300 fiefs, 40 counties, 9 margraviates, 12 duchies and 10 principalities, mainly in Calabria , Campania , Basilicata and Apulia . Its members include cardinals, viceroys, marshals and generals. A branch of the family still exists today, that of the Baron de Marcellinara. The title of Prince of Bisignano passed to the Costa family in 1895 through the female line.

Family history

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The family was founded by Turgisio, a Norman descended from the Dukes of Normandy ; from Robert Guiskard in 1061 he received the county Rota (now Mercato San Severino ), which in a strategically important location represented the connection between the principality of Salerno and the duchies of Naples and Benevento . After the family took their seat in the Sanseverino Castle, which was part of their new property, they took its name. The brothers of Turgisio founded the Gravina and Filangeri families . Due to their participation in uprisings against the Hohenstaufen and the Anjou family, the Sanseverino family was later almost destroyed, but managed to return to the old power.

In the 15th century, the Sanseverino split into two major branches, the Salerno and the Bisignano . Other branches were the Counts of Lauria and Dukes of Scalea , the Dukes of San Donato , Counts of Tricarico , Counts of Caiazzo and Counts of Colorno , Barons of Calvera , Barons of Marcellinara and many more. The Sangineto family, who used to live in Naples and Calabria and who took their name from the Sangineto fief , also descends from this family .

An extraordinary privilege

The Sanseverino belonged to the Seven Great Houses of the Kingdom of Naples , next to the Acquaviva , Celano , Evoli, Marzano, Molise and Ruffo (the houses Evoli, Marzano and Molise are now extinct). The houses of Aquino , del Balzo and Piccolomini were among the supporters of the Seven .

The Sanseverino had a semi-sovereign status in the Kingdom of Naples, which was repeatedly confirmed by the rulers. King Charles IV also determined in 1520 that in the absence of male heirs, the fiefs of the family should not be lost through female succession, but should go to the next male relative: “In quantumcunque remotus etiam decimo et ulteriori gradu ex quacumque linea trasversali, adscendenti seu descendenti… Et inter ipsos de cognomine de Sancto Severino progenitura et gradus servatur… “When in 1606 the Prince of Bisignano, Nicolò Bernardino Sanseverino, died without an heir (the only son was different from his father), his niece Giulia became the property of his niece Orsini , daughter of Antonio Orsini, Duke of Gravina, and Felicia Sanseverino, albeit not without trial before the Royal Court of Justice. After Giulia's death (1609), the privilege was restored and Luigi Sanseverino, Count of Saponara (today Grumento Nova ) and sixth cousin, was recognized as an inheritance, but not for the County of Tricarico, which was auctioned at the will of the sovereign and so as The main source of income for the family disappeared.

Branches of the Sanseverino

The Counts of Caserta

  1. Turgisio di Rota († 1081), Norman, first mentioned in 1045, count of Rota in 1061
    1. Roberto di Sanseverino; ⚭ Gaitelgrima
    2. Lauro Castle (Campania)
      Ruggero di Sanseverino, November 1081 / June 1121 attested, † before August 1135, lord of the Lauro castle ( Avellino province ); ⚭ Sica, daughter of Landolfo di Salerno, whose sister Sigelgaita († 1090) was married to Duke Robert Guiskard († 1085)
      1. Roberto, attested April 1105 / January 1110, lord of the castle Lauro and of Saracena ; ⚭ NN († before 1178), the second marriage to Roberto Capomazza from Salerno, who administered Roberto's inheritance until 1140
        1. Roberto di Lauro (* around 1120, † August 31, 1183), attested in 1150 as lord of Lauro Castle, in 1159 as Count of Caserta , from 1171 as magnus comestabulus and magister iustitiaris Apulie et Terre Laboris ; ⚭ I Agnes († 1178); ⚭ II NN, sister of Count Berardo von Loreto, who was her second marriage in 1193 to the imperial legate Bertold von Kuningsberg.
        2. Ruggero, † probably after 1168, attested in 1159 as Count of Tricarico
          1. ? Giacopo / Giacomo di Sanseverino, Count of Tricarico, attested in 1204; ⚭ (I) November 6, 1188 Mabilia di Ceccano, daughter of Landulfo, Count of Ceccano ; ⚭ (II) after June 1205 Elvira (Albinia), daughter of Tankred of Lecce , King of Sicily ( House of Hauteville , widow of Walter III of Brienne , Prince of Taranto († June 14, 1205) (the identity of Giacopo, the Married in 1188, with whom Giacomo, who is attested in 1204, is not certain)
            1. Simon di Sanseverino, probably in 1223 in the revolt against Emperor Friedrich II.
            2. Adalita di Sanseverino
        3. Riccardo, testified September 1178, † 1182
        4. Casertavecchia (Old Caserta ), Campania
          Guglielmo di Lauro, attested in September 1178, 1183 Count of Caserta and Lord of Lauro, † probably at the end of 1199.
          1. Guglielmo (II.), Count of Caserta, captured Diepold von Schweinspeunt in 1199 ; ⚭ NN, daughter of Diepold von Schweinspeunt, Duke of Spoleto
          2. Roberto (II.), Attested in 1185, 1202/12 Count of Caserta
            1. Tommaso, attested in 1216, Count von Caserta, deposed in revolt against Emperor Frederick II in 1223 and exiled in 1224; ⚭ Siffridina Gentile, attested in 1268
            2. Riccardo (I.), Count of Caserta, 1243/44 Vicar General of the Mark Ancona , 1248 Vicar of the Kingdom of Sicily ; ⚭ 1245/46 Violanta, daughter of Emperor Friedrich II. ( Stammliste of the Hohenstaufen ) and Bianca Lancia
              1. Riccardo (II.), Count of Caserta and Tricarico, loses Caserta with the fall of the Hohenstaufen
              2. Corrado (* shortly before 1250, † after December 13, 1306, probably 1307) End of 1266 / beginning of 1267 Count of Caserta, then 36 years prisoner of Charles of Anjou and his successors, freed in 1303/04; ⚭ Catherine de Gebennes - no descendants
      2. Turgisio, April 1105 attested
      3. Ruggero, attested April 1105
      4. Enrico, attested in June 1121, August 1135 lord of Sanseverino Castle - descendants see below
    3. Turgisio, April 1105 attested
      1. Ruggero, attested April 1105
    4. Delicta; ⚭ Herbert Caput Asinus, both in a forged document dated 1104

The barons of Cilento

The Castello Rocca Cilento

Among the descendants of Enrico are:

  • Guglielmo Sanseverino (1144–1190), who married Isabella Guarna, daughter of Silvestro Guarna, Count of Marsico and Minister of King William I of Sicily .
  • Giacopo Sanseverino, Guglielmo's son, captured his father-in-law Diepold von Schweinspeunt on behalf of Emperor Frederick II in 1218 , in the revolt against Frederick II in 1223, then expropriated and exiled; ⚭ NN, daughter of Diepold von Schweinspeunt, Duke of Spoleto
  • Tommaso Sanseverino (around 1180-1246), son of Guglielmos, exchanged Sanseverino and Cilento for Marsico, 1st Count of Marsico since 1241, took part in the conspiracy against Frederick II, found refuge in Capaccio , was captured and executed.
  • Ruggero Sanseverino (around 1235-1285), son Tommaso, 2nd Earl of Marsico, who in the Battle of Benevento fought (1266) and 1285 captain general of King Charles I was. He married Teodora Aquinas, of the family of the Lords of Roccasecca , sister of St. Thomas Aquinas .
  • Tommaso Sanseverino II (around 1255–1324), Count of Tricarico through his (second) marriage to Sveva de Bethsan (d'Avezzano), 3rd Count of Marsico, Baron of Sanseverino, Lord of Centola , Polla and Cuccaro since 1291, Lord of Atena since 1295, Lord of Postiglione from 1295 to 1298, Lord of Sanza from 1294, Lord of San Severino di Camerota , Casal Boni Ripari, Pantoliano, Castelluccio, Cosentino, Corbella, Monteforte (di Vallo), Serre and Padula since 1301, Lord of Policastro from 1305; was confirmed in the whole barony of Cilento, Diano, Lauria, Sant'Angelo a Fasanella and Magliano Vetere, which he divided among his children. In 1271 he married (his first marriage) Margaret of Vaudémont, daughter of Henry I of Vaudémont , Count of Ariano ( House of Châtenois )
  • Enrico Sanseverino (around 1275-1314), son of Tommasos, was Gran Connestabile of the Kingdom of Naples in 1313. He married Ilaria, daughter of Admiral Ruggero di Lauria, mistress of Maratea, Ravello, Nicotera, Scalea, Mileto, Laino and Lagonegro.
  • Enrico's sons Tommaso Sanseverino III. (1310–1358) and Ruggero Sanseverino II (1312–1376) shared the property of their parents; the elder received the title of (4th) Count of Marsico, Baron of Sanseverino and Cilento and Laurio, the younger the title of (1st) Count of Mileto and Terranova. From the Mileto branch Nicolò, 1st Baron of Marcellinara, was born on February 3, 1445, from whom the only line of the family that still exists today is derived.
  • Antonio Sanseverino (around 1330–1384), son of Tommasos, 5th Count of Marsico
  • Tommaso Sanseverino IV. (Around 1360–1387), son of Antonio, 6th Count of Marsico
  • Ludovico Sanseverino (around 1380–1400), son of Tommasos, 7th Count of Marsico
  • Tommaso Sanserverino V., son of Ludovico, 8th Count of Marsico
  • Giovanni Sanseverino (around 1399–1445), son of Ludovico, 9th Count of Marsico
  • Ludovico Sanseverino II, Giovanni's son, 10th Count of Marsico, died shortly after his father
  • Roberto Sanseverino (around 1430–1474), son of Giovanni, 11th Count of Marsico, 1463 1st Prince of Salerno

The princes of Salerno

Arechi Castle above Salerno , 1463–1553 residence of the Sanseverino
  • Roberto Sanseverino (around 1430–1474), son of Giovanni Sanserverino from the line of the Counts of Marsico, received the title of Prince of Salerno in 1463. He married Raimondella del Balzo Orsini. He commanded the fleet at the Battle of Ischia Aragonese (1465): The return of the fleet is shown on the famous "Tavola Strozzi," first picture "bird's eye view" of the city of Naples: all the galleys have the colors of Sanseverino on the bow (red ribbon Red on a silver background), with Aragaon's coat of arms aft. In 1470, Roberto had Novello da San Lucano (around 1435–1516) build the famous palace with the diamond-shaped bosswork in Naples , the first in Italy and therefore older than the one in Ferrara .
  • Antonello Sanseverino (1458–1499), son of Roberto, 2nd Prince of Salerno, 12th Count of Marsico, Grand Admiral of the Kingdom of Naples (1477), leader of the conspiracy of the barons (1485). He married Costanza di Montefeltro, daughter of Federico da Montefeltro , Duke of Urbino .
  • Roberto Sanseverino II (1485–1509), son of Antonello, 3rd Prince of Salerno, 13th Count of Marsico. He married Maria d'Aragona, daughter of Alfonso, half-brother of King Ferdinand II and 2nd Duke of Villahermosa ( House of Trastámara )
  • Ferdinando or Ferrante Sanseverino (1507–1572), son of Roberto, 4th Prince of Salerno, 14th Count of Marsico, was the last of the branch of the Princes of Salerno. As the successor to his maternal grandfather, he was also the 3rd Duke of Villahermosa. He opposed the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition in the conflict with Charles IV, which put an end to the principality in 1553. He died in exile in France. The assets of the Sanseverino of Salerno were confiscated, divided and then given away or sold to several masters; Charles' decision marks the beginning of a long period of decline for the city of Salerno.

The Counts of Tricarico, Dukes of San Marco and first princes of Bisignano

The Norman Tower in Tricarico
  • The first time Tricarico came into the family through Ruggero († 1189?), Son Roberto di Lauros (see above), who acquired the Tricarico fief by marrying Rogazia (or Rogasia), daughter of Gosfrido.
  • He was followed by his son Giacomo, who on September 8, 1188 married Mabilia of the Annibaldi family, a noble family from Ceccano . The rule of the family in Tricarico was interrupted when Frederick II gave the county to his wife Bianca Lancia , whose son Manfred followed. The county then came to the Bethsan (Bezzano, Bazzano or Avezzano).
  • Tommaso Sanseverino II married Sveva de Bethsan (d'Avezzano), Countess of Tricarico (see above), so that the Sanseverino family came back into possession of the fief. The numbering of the counts from the family start from this re-acquisition. His son Giacomo († 1348) is therefore the 1st Count of Tricarico; due to his marriage to Margherita de Chiaromonte, the sister and heiress of Count Ugone, he also carried the title of Count of Chiaromonte .
  • He was followed by his son Ruggero († 1362?), 2nd Count of Tricarico and Chiaromonte, then his son Venzeslao († 1404) as 3rd Count. In 1412 the fiefdom was taken from the Sanseverino family for a short time, given to Francesco Sforza , later Duke of Milan , and returned to the Sanserverino with Ruggero II († May 9, 1430), son of Venceslao. To the previous titles was added that of a 1st Duke of San Marco. In 1394 he married Covella Ruffo di Calabria .
  • He was followed by his son Antonio, 2nd Duke of San Marco, 5 Count of Tricarico and Chiaromonte, 1st Count of Altomonte, who married Giovannella (or Cella) Orsini del Balzo, and
  • Luca, third Duke of San Marco, 6th Earl of Tricarico and Chiaromonte, 2nd Earl of Altomonte († 1472), who on 26 March 1462 by the King of Nepal for 20,000 ducats fief and title of the first Prince of Bisignano acquired ; his wife was Orsolina Ruffo.
  • With the death of Luca the property passed to his son Geronimo (or Girolamo) (* 1448, † 1487), 2nd Prince of Bisignano, 4th Duke of San Marco, 6th Count of Tricarico and Chiaromonte, 3rd Count of Altomonte who was married to Mandella Gaetani dell Aquila d'Aragona and was executed at the instigation of King Ferdinand I of Aragon for leading part in the conspiracy of the barons . His sons went into exile. Geronimo built the monastery of St. Anthony of Padua in Tricarico, for which he received permission from Pope Sixtus IV on September 27, 1479 to build outside the city walls. Geronimo encouraged the settlement of Albanians on his lands by giving them the opportunity to build new settlements.
  • The fief then goes to his son Berardino (or Bernardino) († 1516?), 3rd Prince of Bisignano, 5th Duke of San Marco, 8th Count of Tricarico and Chiaromonte, 4th Count of Altomonte. His wife was Eleonora (or Dianora) Todeschini Piccolomini. He initially lived in exile in France, where he met Franz von Paola ; Berardino returned to Italy in the entourage of Charles VIII , who returned his title to him on May 1, 1495, which was formally confirmed on August 26, 1496 and October 30, 1496, and again on April 27, 1506 in Valladolid .
  • He was followed by his son Pietro Antonio as 4th Prince of Bisignano, 6th Duke of San Marco, 9th Count of Tricarico and Chiaromonte etc. († April 8, 1559 in Paris). He married Giovana Requenses in 1511, later Giulia Orsini and finally Erina (or Irina) Castriota Skanderbeg in 1539. Pietro Antonio Sanseverino was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1519 .
  • The 10th and last Count of Tricarico from the House of Sanseverino was Niccolò Berardino (* 1541 Morano Calabro ), 4th Prince of Bisignano, 7th Duke of San Marco etc., the son of Pietro Antonio and Erina Castriota Skanderbeg, granddaughter of Gjergj Kastrioti ; he married Isabella della Rovere (* Urbino 1554 † Naples 1619), with whom he had a son, Francesco Teodoro, 11th Count of Chiaromonte, who died of smallpox in Naples in 1595 . Niccolò Berardino died in 1606 without a legal heir, less than a year after the Tricarico County auction. He is known for setting up the "Orti Botanici Sanseverini" (Botanical Garden of the Sanserverini) in the garden of Villa Bisignano in the Barra district of Naples .

The Counts of Colorno

Gravestone of Roberto de Sanseverino († 1487) in the Cathedral of Trento
  • Roberto Sanseverino d'Aragona (1418–1487), son of Leonetto and Elisa Sforza, sister of Duke Francesco Sforza of Milan, was Count of Caiazzo and Count of Colorno from April 15, 1458 to March 23, 1477 and then stepped in favor his son Gianfrancesco back. He was a general in the service of the Sforza, Genoas, the Pope, and Venice, and with the permission of the King of Naples took the name d'Aragona. He died in an ambush at the Battle of Calliano.
  • Gianfrancesco Sanseverino d'Aragona (around 1460–1502) was a general in the service of the Duke of Milan and the King of France. He married Barbara Gonzaga Sabbioneta.
  • Roberto Ambrogio Sanseverino d'Aragona, Capitano reggente of the cavalry in Italy for the French King Francis I , was 3rd Count Colorno from 1502 to 1532, the year he died in Busseto . His wife Ippolita Cybo was regent for the children from 1532 to 1544.
  • Lavinia Sanseverino d'Aragona, Countess of Colorno from 1544 to 1565.
  • Gianfrancesco Sanseverino, Count of Colorno from 1565 to 1570, he married Lavinia, his cousin.
  • Gian Galeazzo Sanseverino d'Aragona, the younger brother of Lavinia, Count of Colorno from 1570 to 1577
  • Eleonora Sanseverino d'Aragona, daughter of Gian Galeazzo, waived in favor of
  • Barbara Sanseverino , daughter of Gianfrancesco, married to Gilberto Sanvitale and then to Count Orazio Simonetta , who was executed in Parma on May 19, 1612 for conspiracy against Ranuccio I Farnese . Colorno fell to the Farnese . At the beginning of the 18th century, Francesco Farnese (1678–1727) built what is today the baroque ducal palace in place of the Sanseverino castle in Colorno.

Dukes of San Donato

In 1374, as a result of the marriage of Margherita di Sangineto with Venceslao Sanseverino, 3rd Count of Tricarico and Chiaromonte , the fief of San Donato in Calabria came to the Sanseverino of Tricarico. Around 1510 Berardino Sanseverino, 3rd Prince of Bisignano, gave the land of San Donato and Policastrello as a princely fief to a younger member of the family, Francesco Sanseverino Baron of Calvera in Basilicata as the founder of the branch of Sanseverino San Donato. On September 29, 1602, Philip III. of Spain the barony to duchy for Don Scipione "junior" Sanseverino from the line of the barons of Calvera and made him the 1st Duke of San Donato.

  • Don Scipione “junior” Sanseverino (1588-1640) was the 3rd Baron of San Donato, became Marchese on November 30, 1598 and on September 29, 1602 (including the Privilegio ) by Philip III. appointed 1st Duke of San Donato. He was also the 4th Baron Policastrello. In 1605 his mother, Donna Lucrezia Carafa, bought for him the fief of Poggiano or Rogliano or Roggiano and the Larderia farm (now part of Messina ) from the Prince of Bisignano. The next year the Altomonte fiefdom also fell under his rule, which later went to the House of Annunziata in Naples. The purchase of the Roggiano fief also included in part the acquisition of the residence of San Donato in Reggiano, where the ducal family spent most of the year.
  • Don Francesco Sanseverino (November 1, 1611, † October 8, 1648) was killed by his vassals of San Donato along with two of his daughters during the riots that followed the revolt of Masaniello in Naples:

"It is a time of serious discontent with the Sandonatese, which, together with and as a result of events that happened in the capital of the kingdom in 1647, raged against their master that distanced themselves from all respect and obedience," in his Saving grain started fire, slaughtered all the herds of the various animals that the Duchess captured, with the deaths of two of her daughters and the landlord and many other excesses of cruelty, "as reported in a dispatch from the Venetian resident in Naples on August 6, 1647 becomes." He was the 2nd Duke of San Donato since December 11, 1640, 5th Baron Policastrello and 1st Baron Roggiano and Patrizio Napoletano . This line was to administer the property until 1654, the year in which the only surviving daughter, the last Duchess of San Donato, the nine-year-old Anna died and the fiefdom was confiscated by the king. The fiefdom and the title of Duke of San Donato were then auctioned off by the sovereign, acquired in 1664 by the Ametrano family from Naples.

The other princes of Bisignano

After the death of Niccolò Berardino, the 5th Prince of Bisignano, a struggle for succession and fortune broke out between Giulia Orsini (daughter of a sister Nicolò Bernardino) and Luigi Sanseverino di Saponara, which lasted until 1622 and with the latter's investiture ended, although much of the fortune had been lost in the meantime.

  • Luigi Sanseverino di Saponara also died without a male heir, so the title went to his brother Carlo, then to his son, Carlo Maria, who established his residence in Altomonte; he was followed by Giuseppe Sanseverino, the father of the blessed Mariangela del Crocifisso. Luigi Sanseverino II, 11th Prince of Bisignano from 1727, was also awarded the Golden Fleece in 1731. His second son Don Luigi Sanseverino III. was appointed grandee of Spain ; he led an ascetic life and abdicated in 1783.
  • The other princes are: Tommaso Sanseverino (1759–1814), brother Luigis, Pietro Antonio Sanseverino (1790–1865) and his son Luigi Sanseverino (1823–1888). The branch of the princes of Bisignano died in the male line with the death of Luigi Sanseverino, 16th prince of Bisignano, who had only daughters. The eldest daughter Antonia Sanseverino (1843-1875), 24th Countess of Chiaromonte and married to the Marchese Francesco Costa from the Costa di Arielli family, was the mother of Luigi Costa, who with royal consent (December 17, 1895) and later royal Decree (October 22, 1897) took the name Costa Sanseverino and followed his grandfather in his titles. He became the 17th Prince of Bisignano and founded the line of the Costa Sanseverino Bisignano. Luigi Costa's son Edoardo (1909–1983) was the 18th prince, his son Luigi Costa Sanseverino (* 1940) is the 19th prince of Bisignano.

Other family members

The Sanseverino today

In the male line of the historical family there is now the only branch that of the Barons of Marcellinara

The Sanseverino of Marcellinara

The fiefdom of Marcellinara in Calabria was given to the Sanseverino on February 3, 1445 by Alfonso d'Aragona for the successful siege of Catanzaro , in the person of Niccolò / Nicola Sanseverino († October 1481), son of Guglielmo, lord of Fiumara di Muro, who in turn was the son of Ruggero, Count of Mileto (see above). He was the first Baron of Marcellinara with the privilege of the King of Naples on March 3, 1445, page of Alfonso V of Aragon and husband of Covella Rhodio from the family of the Barons of Amato. The Marcellinara line is listed in the Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Italiana with the title Baron von Marcellinara, in the person of Patrizio Sanseverino (* Catanzaro 1879), a descendant of Carlo (* Marcellinara 1847, † ibid. 1917) Senator of the Kingdom of Italy .

Honors

After Pietro Antonio (Pietrantonio) Sanseverino Conte di Chiaromonte (1724–1772), better known as Principe di Bisignano, Vincenzo Petagna named a genus of plants, the bow hemp . Petagna called her Sanseverinia , which became Sansevieria near Thunberg .

See also

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

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  • Raffaele Colapietra, "I Sanseverino di Salerno", ed. 1985 with Pietro Laveglia
  • Francesco Bonazzi, "Famiglie nobili e titolate del Napolitano", ed. 1902 at Detken, under the entry
  • Carlo Padiglione, “Delle livre e del modo di comporle”, ed. 1889 at Giannini, under the entry
  • Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, Volume XXX, under the entry
  • Enciclopedia Rizzoli Larousse, under the entry.
  • Giuseppe Chiesi, “Il Sottoceneri e la signoria dei Sanseverino”, in “Bollettino Storico della Svizzera Italiana”, Bellinzona 1990, pp. 119–172.
  • Massimo Della Misericordia, “La 'coda' dei gentiluomini”, in “Guelfi e ghibellini nell'Italia del Rinascimento”, ed. by Marco Gentile, Viella Libreria Editrice, Rome 2005, in particular pp. 326-358.
  • Antoniett Moretti, “Da feudo a baliaggio: la comunità delle pievi della Val Lugano nel XV e XVI secolo”, Bulzoni, Rome 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. nobili-napoletani.it  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--nobilinapoletani-hg6i.it  
  2. Sanseverino. In: Enciclopedia Treccani. Retrieved January 29, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ^ Vittorio Spreti, Enciclopedia storico - nobiliare italiana Volume VI, page 104, Enciclopedia Storico - Nobiliare Italiana, 1935
  4. Giovan Battista di Crollalanza, Dizionario storico - blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti , Volume II, page 480, ed. with Arnaldo Forni
  5. “Turgisius de Rota” named as the father of Roger di Sanseverino or Normanne, see Thierry Stasser, “Où sont les femmes?” (Oxford 2008), citing the archive of Cava dei Tirreni , Abbazia di S. Trinità, Armarium B 18 and F 18
  6. "Roger de San Severino" donated the Cava Abbey in May 1082 for the souls of his father Turgisius, his brother Robert and his wife Gaitelgrima, Thierry Stasser, "Où sont les femmes?" (Oxford 2008), citing the archive of Cava dei Tirreni, Abbazia di S. Trinità, Armarium B 22
  7. Thierry Stasser, “Où sont les femmes?” (Oxford 2008), citing the archive of Cava dei Tirreni, Abbazia di S. Trinità, Armarium, for 1081: B 18, for 1121 F 18
  8. “Enrico signore del castello di Sanseverino, figlio del fu Ruggiero”, Placido Mario Tropeano (ed.) “Codice Diplomatico Verginiano” Volume I, 223
  9. Source above all: Berardo Pio as in Roberto di Lauro
  10. 1105: "Rucgerius filius quondam Trugisi de Castello Sancto Severino de locum Rota" donated for the monastery of San Lorenzo in Aversa , witnesses were "Robbertus flius Rucgerius, Trugisius filius Rucgterii, Turgisius frater Rogerii, Regerius filius Turgissi"; Antonio Spinelli (ed.) “Regni Neapolitani archivi Monumenta edita ac illustrata” (Naples 1857), Volume V, for 1105: DXVIII, p. 295; for 1110: DXXXI, p. 325
  11. Source above all: Berardo Pio as in Roberto di Lauro
  12. The southern Lazio and northern Campania are called Terra di Lavoro
  13. ^ Source for Roberto especially: Berardo PioLauro, Roberto di. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64:  Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
  14. The “Catalogus Baronum”, p. 574, dated 1168, mentions “Rogerius comes Tricarici”, “Catalogus Baronum Neapolitano in regno versantium”, ed. by Giuseppe del Re (1845)
  15. Source: Berardo Pio as in Roberto di Lauro
  16. "Ryccardus de Sancti Germano Chronica" 1204 (MGH Scriptores (in folio) 19 [Annales aevi suevici], p. 332): "comes Gualterius" allies with "Iacobo Tricaricensi"
  17. “Mobilia filia Landulfi de Ceccano” married “comiti Iacobo de Tricarico” on “1188 8 Id Nov”, Annales Ceccanenses 1188, MGH Scriptores (in folio) 19 [Annales aevi suevici], p. 288
  18. The "Thomae Tusci Gesta imperatorum et pontificum" (MGH Scriptores (in folio) 19 [Annales aevi suevici], p. 498) name "Alberia, Constantia et Madania" as the daughters of King Tankred and "comes Gualterius de Brenna" and "Iacobo comiti de Tricario ”as Alberia's husbands
  19. The "Thomae Tusci Gesta imperatorum et pontificum" (MGH Scriptores (in folio) 19 [Annales aevi suevici], p. 498) name "comytem Symonem et dominam Adalitam" as children of "Iacobo comiti de Tricario"
  20. "Ryccardus de Sancti Germano Chronica" (MGH Scriptores (in folio) 19, [Annales aevi suevici]; p 343), which is called with no mention of the name "filium comitis Tricariensis" so that an otherwise unknown Another son Giacomo can be meant
  21. Source as for Simon
  22. Source: Berardo Pio as in Roberto di Lauro and Guglielmo di Lauro
  23. Berardo PioLauro, Guglielmo di. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 64:  Latilla – Levi Montalcini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2005.
  24. Source as for Guglielmo di Lauro)
  25. Neue Deutsche Biographie Volume 3, p. 653 online  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bsbndb.bsb.xn--lrzmuenchen-og3f.de  
  26. Source as for Wilhelm (I.) von Lauro)
  27. Source as for Wilhelm (I.) von Lauro)
  28. Source as for Corrado
  29. ^ Riccardo I conte di Caserta online
  30. "filiam imperatoris naturalem" ... "comitissam de Caserta filius" in: "Annales Sancti Pantaleonis Coloniensis" 1246, MGH Scriptores (in folio) 19 [Annales aevi suevici], p. 343
  31. ^ Treccani, as Riccardo I.
  32. ^ Norbert Kamp , “Corrado”, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 29 (1983) online
  33. Source as with his brother Roberto
  34. Source as with his brother Roberto
  35. 1121: as signatory “Enricus filius et heres domini Roggerii” for “Rogerius de Sancto Severino filius quondam Turgisii normanni”, Thierry Stasser, “Où sont les femmes?” (Oxford 2008), citing the archive of Cava dei Tirreni, Abbazia di S. Trinità, Armarium F 18; 1135: “Enrico signore del castello di Sanseverino, figlio del fu Ruggiero”, Placido Mario Tropeano (ed.) “Codice Diplomatico Verginiano” Volume I, 223
  36. "Rucgerius filius quondam Trugisi de Castello Sancto Severino de locum Rota" donated to the monastery of San Lorenzo in Aversa in April 1105 witnesses were "Robbertus flius Rucgerius, Trugisius filius Rucgterii, Turgisius frater Rogerii, Regerius filius Turgissi" (Antonio Spinelli (eds .) "Regni Neapolitani archivi Monumenta edita ac illustrata" (Naples 1857), Volume V, DXVIII, p. 295)
  37. Source as with his father
  38. Thierry Stasser, “Où sont les femmes?” (Oxford 2008), citing the archives of Cava dei Tirreni, Abbazia di S. Trinità, Armarium D43, and C. Carlone, “Falsificazioni e falsari cavensi e vergininai del secolo XIII, Altavilla Silentine” (1984), pp. 32-33
  39. Ryccardus de Sancti Germano Chronica 1218, MGH Scriptores (in folio) 19 [Annales aevi suevici], to 1218: p. 339, to 1223: p. 343
  40. Or maybe the Count's sister, the sources are imprecise
  41. Sveva was the daughter and heiress of Grimaldo (Grimaud de Bethzan), lord of Tricarico, and Elvira della Marra († after 1308)
  42. He is arrested and killed on behalf of King Ladislaus.
  43. He received the title from Queen Johanna II.
  44. She is the daughter of Antonio, 4th Count of Montalto and Corigliano, and Giovannella Sanseverino from the family of the Counts of Mileto
  45. She is the daughter of Gabriele, Duke of Venosa, and Giovanna Caracciolo from the family of the Counts of Melfi
  46. She is the daughter of Nicola Ruffo, 6th Count of Catanzaro, from the House of Ruffo and Marguerite de Poitiers from the family of the Lords of Saint-Vallier ( House of Poitiers-Valentinois )
  47. The monastery complex was completed in 1491 with donations from the Tricarico community after the Count's death. A marble memorial stone with an inscription is set up as a reminder, cf. the picture with the old landmarks of the city in the article on Tricarico.
  48. The date of his will
  49. He is also Lord of Castrovillari and Eboli (1496), Count of Mileto (1507).
  50. ^ Daughter of Don Antonio Todeschini Piccolomini, 1st Duke of Amalfi , and Maria da Marzano from the family of the Dukes of Sessa .
  51. ^ Pietro Antonio Sanseverino IV Principe di Bisignano. Retrieved September 19, 2018 (Italian).
  52. ^ Daughter of Galcerando, Count of Trivento, and Donna Beatriz Manrique de Lara .
  53. ^ Daughter of Gian Giordano, Lord of Bracciano, and Felicia della Rovere.
  54. Granddaughter of the Albanian Prince Gjergj Kastrioti, called Skanderbeg , daughter and heiress of Don Ferdinando, 2nd Duke of San Pietro in Galatina and Count of Soleto, and Donna Andriana Acquaviva d'Aragona from the family of the Dukes of Nardò
  55. Innocenzo Mazziotti: Immigrazioni albanesi in Calabria nel secolo XV e la colonia di San Demetrio Corone (1471-1815) . Il Coscile Editore, Castrovillari 2004, ISBN 88-87482-61-6 , p. 84 (Italian).
  56. ^ Daughter of Guidobaldo II. Della Rovere , Duke of Urbino, and Vittoria Farnese .
  57. He had two illegitimate daughters, Erina (or Irina) and Giulia
  58. The County of Tricarico was auctioned despite the objection of Isabella della Roveres, the wife of Niccolò Berardino, that it brought the greatest profit. The loss of the county exacerbated the family's already precarious economic situation.
  59. Títulos nobiliarios concedidos por Monarcas españoles en Nápoles existentes en el archivo general de Simancas , p. 1039–, "Duques - San Donato - A Escipión Sanseverino. Valladolid, 29 de septiembre de 1602"
  60. ^ Raffaele Bisignani, I Sanseverino, ramo San Donato, "Calabria Nobilissima", 1989, 42-43, 33-70.
  61. King Charles II granted Ametrano and his descendants again the title of Duke of San Donato with privilege, Madrid, December 20, 1668, registered Quinternione 123, fol. 171t, as well as Cedolario 74, fol. 334t reported. The Sambiase inherit San Donato in female succession (from Maria Cavalcanti Ametrano, mother of the 4th Duke of Malvito), it lasted a short time until 1780, until the fief, but not the title, passed to the Campolongo, the San Donato until the end of feudalism in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1806).
  62. ^ Vittorio Spreti, Enciclopedia storico - nobiliare italiana Volume VI, page 104, Enciclopedia Storico - Nobiliare Italiana, 1935, ed. with Arnaldo Forni
  63. ^ Treccani, Enciclopedia, Volume XXX, under this heading
  64. Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-946292-10-4 , doi: 10.3372 / epolist2016 , p. 889