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Current region | ![]() |
Place of origin |
Cesi, Terni![]() |
Founded | X century [1] [2] [3] [4] |
Founder | Pope Sylvester II [1] [2] [5] |
Titles |
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Connected families | Orsini, Colonna, Barberini, Ruspoli, Caetani, Sforza, Savoia, Aldobrandini, Massimo, d'Altemps, Della Rovere, Salviati, Lante, Strozzi, Pico, Savelli [1] |
Motto | Omnibus Idem |
Estate(s) |
Public Monuments:
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Cadet branches | Marquis Cittadini-Cesi, Dukes of Acquasparta |
The Cesi family is an Italian noble family which belonged to the high aristocracy of Rome and the Papal States. [10] [11]
The Cesi family takes its surname from Cesi. The fiefdom of Cesi was originally part of the Lombard Duchy of Spoleto. The Cesi fief was of the Arnolfi family, the chief seat of the Terre Arnolfe. [12] The Arnolfi family claimed descent from the Lombard Arnulf, vassal of Duke of Spoleto. The duchy was then annexed to the Papal States. [13] It comes from the Latin word caesi and the Latin verb caedere. Contraction of the Lombard toponym Cesina, which indicated a coppice wood or a place cleared of woodland.
According to the "Relation de Rome" of the French Ambassador to the court of Urban VIII, Amayden, the Cesi family was located in Umbria (with its main seat the castle of Cesi). Antonio Chitani of Cesi, the chief of the family, and his wife Angela Ternabili were slaughtered in the Church of St. Anthony Abbot, in the castle of Cesi, on the feast day of the saint, with all their relatives. [14] Only their son Pietro (1422–1477), still in swaddling clothes, escaped the massacre. [14] Pietro moved to Rome and later became a very famous consistory lawyer to the point of obtaining the office of podestà of Perugia first and then that of senator in Rome. [14] The three sons born to Pietro, Bartolomeo, Pierdonato, and Angelo, respectively, originated three branches of the family. [14]
The last of Pietro's sons, Angelo or Agnolo, married Franceschina Cardoli, a descendant on his mother's side of the famous condottiero Gattamelata; he himself was a very distinguished personage of his time, becoming a jurisconsult, professor of the Roman Archiginnassio, consistorial lawyer and senator like his father until he was noticed by Pope Julius II, who appointed him first apostolic secretary and then auditor of the apostolic chamber. [14] He was also a splendid patron, commissioning Michelangelo to build the family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome. [14] His son, Maximilian Octavius, was bishop of Cervia, while two of his other sons, Federico and Paolo Emilio, were both cardinals. [15]
Giangiacomo, Angelo's son, was decemvir at Todi and was noble of Terni. He took part in the siege of Florence in 1530, also distinguishing himself as a condottiero. Through his wife, Isabella Liviani d'Alviano, who bequeathed him his father's fiefdom, he was able to make an exchange with Pierluigi Farnese, receiving in exchange the fiefs of Acquasparta and Portaria.
Giangiacomo's son, Angelo, followed in his father's footsteps and was also a decemvir at Todi and a nobleman at Terni, embarking like his parent on a military career on behalf of the Church State. [14] In 1569, during the reign of Pius V, he commanded a military expeditionary force in France to bring aid to Charles IX against the Huguenots. [14] He distinguished himself in the capture of Poitiers where he later died in 1570. [14] He had a palace in Rome in via della Maschera d'oro that later became the seat of his household and erected a grand mausoleum to his uncle, Cardinal Federico Cesi, in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. [14]
His sons were Bartolomeo, who later became archbishop of Conza, bishop of Tivoli and cardinal, and Federico, who first assumed the title of marquis of Monticelli. [15] In favor of the latter, Pope Sixtus V erected the fiefdom of Acquasparta into a duchy in 1588, while Pope Paul V in 1613 granted him the principality over the marquisates of San Polo dei Cavalieri and Sant'Angelo. The latter married Princess Olimpia Orsini.
Federico (1562–1630), was the eldest son of the former and 2nd Duke of Acquasparta. His brother Firmino, became bishop of Rimini. His son, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, would be known as Federico the Lyncean and would be one of the greatest scholars of the 17th century. He married Princess Artemisia Colonna in first marriage and Marchesa Isabella Salviati in second marriage.
The family grew and prospered until the second half of the 17th century when it sold most of its property to the Borghese family. At this point the branch of the dukes of Acquasparta was succeeded by the one originated by Bartolomeo with Giacomo di Giuseppe who in 1804 and then with his son, Luigi in 1821.
The Pierdonato branch ruled with the title of marquis and duke in several fiefs in the Sabina area, dying out in 1657 with the death of Francesco Maria Cesi, duke of Ceri and Selci, titles that returned to the main branch of the lineage.
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Don Giangiacomo (+1455)
= Donna Isabella
d'Alviano, daughter of Count
Bartolomeo d'Alviano and Pentesilea
Baglioni dei
Counts of Spello and Bettona
Don Angelo (1542–1570)
= Donna Beatrice
Caetani, daughter of Don Bonifazio I 4° Duke of Sermoneta and of Caterina
Pio di Savoia dei Princes of Carpi
Don Federico I (1562–1630)
= Donna Olimpia
Orsini, daughter of Giovanni 2° Marquis of Lamentana and Porzia dei Counts dell'
Anguillara
Don Federico II (1585–1630):
= Donna Artemisia
Colonna, daughter of Don Francesco
Prince of Palestrina and Donna Ersilia
Sforza dei Counts of Santa Fiora
= Donna Isabella
Salviati, daughter of Lorenzo Marquis of Giuliano and Donna Maddalena
Strozzi dei Princes of Forano
Donna Olimpia (1618)
= Ludovico
Lante della Rovere Marquis of Massa Luense
= Paolo
Sforza Marquis of Proceno
Donna Caterina (1637)
= Giulio
Della Rovere dei Marquis of San Lorenzo
Paolo Emilio (+1611)
= Porzia dell'
Anguillara, daughter and heiress of Giampaolo dei Counts dell'Anguillara and Margherita
Orsini dei Princes of Taranto
= Costanza degli Atti
Don Andrea (+1626)
= Donna Cornelia
Orsini, daughter of Don Virginio Duke of San Gemini and Donna Giovanna
Caetani dei Dukes of Sermoneta, already widow of Don Roberto
Altemps Duke of Gallese
Don Francesco Maria (+1657)
= Giulia
Pico
Princess of Mirandola, daughter of Prince Alessandro
Pico della Mirandola and Laura d'
Este
Princess of Modena and Reggio
= Donna Anna Caterina
Aldobrandini, daughter of Don Pietro Duke of Carpineto and Donna Carlotta
Savelli dei Princes of Albano
Donna Maria
= Don Giovanni Angelo d'
Altemps, Duke of Gallese
Don Giovanni (+1656)
= Giulia Veronica
Ravignani
Sforza
Manzuoli, daughter of Francesco Maria Count of Bagnolo, Todorano, Valdeponte, Corano, Ripoli, Confinente, Lagaro, Carpineta, Vado and Brigadello
Donna Isabella (1676–1753)
= Don Francesco
Ruspoli, Prince of Cerveteri
Romolo (+1573)
= Timotea
Orsini dei Dukes of San Gemini
= Venere
D'Evoli dei Princes of Castroprignano
Donna Lucrezia (1577+)
= Giulio
Landi Prince of Val di Taro
Donna Isabella
= Duke Ludovico
Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere, Marquis of Massa Luense
Don Giuseppe Angelo (+1705)
= Donna Giacinta
Conti, daughter of Don Carlo Duke of Poli and Guadagnolo and Donna Isabella
Muti dei Dukes of Rignano
Don Federico Pierdonato (+1762)
= Donna Silvia Maria Teresa
Muti, daughter of Don Giacomo Duke of Rignano and Virginia
Caffarelli, already widow of Don Taddeo
Barberini,
Prince of Palestrina
Don Carlo Federico (+1774)
= Maria Vittoria
Spada, daughter of Marquis Clemente of Caste Viscardo and Maria dei Counts
Rocci
Don Federico (+1771)
= Maria Anna
Massimo, daughter of Marquis Emilio
Massimo and Maria dei Counts Bernardini Ferretti, who became heiress to the Cesi's Dukes of Rignano title, and transmitted it to her nephews from the
Massimo family
Don Federico (+1799)
= Matilde
Malatesta, daughter of Felice Antonio Count of Sogliano
Donna Nicolosa (1550+)
= Onofrio
Santacroce, Duke of San Gemini
Pietro Donato detto Pierdonato (+1504)
= Lucrezia degli Atti
Paolo Emilio (+1611)
= Porzia dell'
Anguillara, daughter and heiress of Giampaolo Count dell'Anguillara and Margherita
Orsini dei Princes di Taranto
= Costanza degli Atti
Donna Anna Maria (+1647)
= Don Michele Damasceni
Peretti,
Prince of Venafro
Don Marcantonio
= Paola
Savelli dei Princes of Albano, daughter of Tullio
Savelli and Violante
Orsini
Don Federico (+ 1620)
= Olimpia
Orsini, daughter of Giordano Orsini Duke of San Gemini
Francesco (+1646)
= Margherita
Ravignani
Sforza
Manzuoli, daughter of Francesco Maria Count of Bagnolo, Todorano, Valdeponte, Corano, Ripoli, Confiente, Lagaro, Carpineta, Vado and Brigadello
Giovanni (+ 1531)
= Camilla
Spada dei Marquis of Gerbeuville
Cesi | |
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Country | ![]() |
Current region | ![]() |
Place of origin |
Cesi, Terni![]() |
Founded | X century [1] [2] [3] [4] |
Founder | Pope Sylvester II [1] [2] [5] |
Titles |
|
Connected families | Orsini, Colonna, Barberini, Ruspoli, Caetani, Sforza, Savoia, Aldobrandini, Massimo, d'Altemps, Della Rovere, Salviati, Lante, Strozzi, Pico, Savelli [1] |
Motto | Omnibus Idem |
Estate(s) |
Public Monuments:
|
Cadet branches | Marquis Cittadini-Cesi, Dukes of Acquasparta |
The Cesi family is an Italian noble family which belonged to the high aristocracy of Rome and the Papal States. [10] [11]
The Cesi family takes its surname from Cesi. The fiefdom of Cesi was originally part of the Lombard Duchy of Spoleto. The Cesi fief was of the Arnolfi family, the chief seat of the Terre Arnolfe. [12] The Arnolfi family claimed descent from the Lombard Arnulf, vassal of Duke of Spoleto. The duchy was then annexed to the Papal States. [13] It comes from the Latin word caesi and the Latin verb caedere. Contraction of the Lombard toponym Cesina, which indicated a coppice wood or a place cleared of woodland.
According to the "Relation de Rome" of the French Ambassador to the court of Urban VIII, Amayden, the Cesi family was located in Umbria (with its main seat the castle of Cesi). Antonio Chitani of Cesi, the chief of the family, and his wife Angela Ternabili were slaughtered in the Church of St. Anthony Abbot, in the castle of Cesi, on the feast day of the saint, with all their relatives. [14] Only their son Pietro (1422–1477), still in swaddling clothes, escaped the massacre. [14] Pietro moved to Rome and later became a very famous consistory lawyer to the point of obtaining the office of podestà of Perugia first and then that of senator in Rome. [14] The three sons born to Pietro, Bartolomeo, Pierdonato, and Angelo, respectively, originated three branches of the family. [14]
The last of Pietro's sons, Angelo or Agnolo, married Franceschina Cardoli, a descendant on his mother's side of the famous condottiero Gattamelata; he himself was a very distinguished personage of his time, becoming a jurisconsult, professor of the Roman Archiginnassio, consistorial lawyer and senator like his father until he was noticed by Pope Julius II, who appointed him first apostolic secretary and then auditor of the apostolic chamber. [14] He was also a splendid patron, commissioning Michelangelo to build the family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Pace in Rome. [14] His son, Maximilian Octavius, was bishop of Cervia, while two of his other sons, Federico and Paolo Emilio, were both cardinals. [15]
Giangiacomo, Angelo's son, was decemvir at Todi and was noble of Terni. He took part in the siege of Florence in 1530, also distinguishing himself as a condottiero. Through his wife, Isabella Liviani d'Alviano, who bequeathed him his father's fiefdom, he was able to make an exchange with Pierluigi Farnese, receiving in exchange the fiefs of Acquasparta and Portaria.
Giangiacomo's son, Angelo, followed in his father's footsteps and was also a decemvir at Todi and a nobleman at Terni, embarking like his parent on a military career on behalf of the Church State. [14] In 1569, during the reign of Pius V, he commanded a military expeditionary force in France to bring aid to Charles IX against the Huguenots. [14] He distinguished himself in the capture of Poitiers where he later died in 1570. [14] He had a palace in Rome in via della Maschera d'oro that later became the seat of his household and erected a grand mausoleum to his uncle, Cardinal Federico Cesi, in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. [14]
His sons were Bartolomeo, who later became archbishop of Conza, bishop of Tivoli and cardinal, and Federico, who first assumed the title of marquis of Monticelli. [15] In favor of the latter, Pope Sixtus V erected the fiefdom of Acquasparta into a duchy in 1588, while Pope Paul V in 1613 granted him the principality over the marquisates of San Polo dei Cavalieri and Sant'Angelo. The latter married Princess Olimpia Orsini.
Federico (1562–1630), was the eldest son of the former and 2nd Duke of Acquasparta. His brother Firmino, became bishop of Rimini. His son, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei, would be known as Federico the Lyncean and would be one of the greatest scholars of the 17th century. He married Princess Artemisia Colonna in first marriage and Marchesa Isabella Salviati in second marriage.
The family grew and prospered until the second half of the 17th century when it sold most of its property to the Borghese family. At this point the branch of the dukes of Acquasparta was succeeded by the one originated by Bartolomeo with Giacomo di Giuseppe who in 1804 and then with his son, Luigi in 1821.
The Pierdonato branch ruled with the title of marquis and duke in several fiefs in the Sabina area, dying out in 1657 with the death of Francesco Maria Cesi, duke of Ceri and Selci, titles that returned to the main branch of the lineage.
![]() | This section is empty. You can help by
adding to it. (March 2024) |
Sources:
[1]
[2]
[6]
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
[23]
Don Giangiacomo (+1455)
= Donna Isabella
d'Alviano, daughter of Count
Bartolomeo d'Alviano and Pentesilea
Baglioni dei
Counts of Spello and Bettona
Don Angelo (1542–1570)
= Donna Beatrice
Caetani, daughter of Don Bonifazio I 4° Duke of Sermoneta and of Caterina
Pio di Savoia dei Princes of Carpi
Don Federico I (1562–1630)
= Donna Olimpia
Orsini, daughter of Giovanni 2° Marquis of Lamentana and Porzia dei Counts dell'
Anguillara
Don Federico II (1585–1630):
= Donna Artemisia
Colonna, daughter of Don Francesco
Prince of Palestrina and Donna Ersilia
Sforza dei Counts of Santa Fiora
= Donna Isabella
Salviati, daughter of Lorenzo Marquis of Giuliano and Donna Maddalena
Strozzi dei Princes of Forano
Donna Olimpia (1618)
= Ludovico
Lante della Rovere Marquis of Massa Luense
= Paolo
Sforza Marquis of Proceno
Donna Caterina (1637)
= Giulio
Della Rovere dei Marquis of San Lorenzo
Paolo Emilio (+1611)
= Porzia dell'
Anguillara, daughter and heiress of Giampaolo dei Counts dell'Anguillara and Margherita
Orsini dei Princes of Taranto
= Costanza degli Atti
Don Andrea (+1626)
= Donna Cornelia
Orsini, daughter of Don Virginio Duke of San Gemini and Donna Giovanna
Caetani dei Dukes of Sermoneta, already widow of Don Roberto
Altemps Duke of Gallese
Don Francesco Maria (+1657)
= Giulia
Pico
Princess of Mirandola, daughter of Prince Alessandro
Pico della Mirandola and Laura d'
Este
Princess of Modena and Reggio
= Donna Anna Caterina
Aldobrandini, daughter of Don Pietro Duke of Carpineto and Donna Carlotta
Savelli dei Princes of Albano
Donna Maria
= Don Giovanni Angelo d'
Altemps, Duke of Gallese
Don Giovanni (+1656)
= Giulia Veronica
Ravignani
Sforza
Manzuoli, daughter of Francesco Maria Count of Bagnolo, Todorano, Valdeponte, Corano, Ripoli, Confinente, Lagaro, Carpineta, Vado and Brigadello
Donna Isabella (1676–1753)
= Don Francesco
Ruspoli, Prince of Cerveteri
Romolo (+1573)
= Timotea
Orsini dei Dukes of San Gemini
= Venere
D'Evoli dei Princes of Castroprignano
Donna Lucrezia (1577+)
= Giulio
Landi Prince of Val di Taro
Donna Isabella
= Duke Ludovico
Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere, Marquis of Massa Luense
Don Giuseppe Angelo (+1705)
= Donna Giacinta
Conti, daughter of Don Carlo Duke of Poli and Guadagnolo and Donna Isabella
Muti dei Dukes of Rignano
Don Federico Pierdonato (+1762)
= Donna Silvia Maria Teresa
Muti, daughter of Don Giacomo Duke of Rignano and Virginia
Caffarelli, already widow of Don Taddeo
Barberini,
Prince of Palestrina
Don Carlo Federico (+1774)
= Maria Vittoria
Spada, daughter of Marquis Clemente of Caste Viscardo and Maria dei Counts
Rocci
Don Federico (+1771)
= Maria Anna
Massimo, daughter of Marquis Emilio
Massimo and Maria dei Counts Bernardini Ferretti, who became heiress to the Cesi's Dukes of Rignano title, and transmitted it to her nephews from the
Massimo family
Don Federico (+1799)
= Matilde
Malatesta, daughter of Felice Antonio Count of Sogliano
Donna Nicolosa (1550+)
= Onofrio
Santacroce, Duke of San Gemini
Pietro Donato detto Pierdonato (+1504)
= Lucrezia degli Atti
Paolo Emilio (+1611)
= Porzia dell'
Anguillara, daughter and heiress of Giampaolo Count dell'Anguillara and Margherita
Orsini dei Princes di Taranto
= Costanza degli Atti
Donna Anna Maria (+1647)
= Don Michele Damasceni
Peretti,
Prince of Venafro
Don Marcantonio
= Paola
Savelli dei Princes of Albano, daughter of Tullio
Savelli and Violante
Orsini
Don Federico (+ 1620)
= Olimpia
Orsini, daughter of Giordano Orsini Duke of San Gemini
Francesco (+1646)
= Margherita
Ravignani
Sforza
Manzuoli, daughter of Francesco Maria Count of Bagnolo, Todorano, Valdeponte, Corano, Ripoli, Confiente, Lagaro, Carpineta, Vado and Brigadello
Giovanni (+ 1531)
= Camilla
Spada dei Marquis of Gerbeuville