Orsini family
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The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: Stephen I
Palazzo Orsini in Fara Sabina, northern Lazio, central Italy. The Orsini were amongst the main feudatories in Italy from the Middle Ages onwards, holding a great number of fiefs and lordships in Lazio and in the Kingdom of Naples.
The Tower of Raimondello Orsini in Taranto, c. 1880.
Gerolama Orsini, Pier Luigi's wife.
The Orsini Castle in Nerola.
Colonna family
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The House of Colonna is a prominent Italian family, forming part of the papal nobility. It played a pivotal role in medieval and Renaissance Rome, supplying one pope, 23 cardinals and many other churc
Orsini family
…to their own family legend, the Orsini are descended from the Julio-Claudian dynasty of ancient Rome. The Orsini carried on a political feud with the Colonna family for centuries in Rome, until it was stopped by Papal Bull in 1511. In 1571, the heads of both families married nieces of Pope Sixtus V as an act of…
Palazzo Colonna in Rome (begun by Pope Martin V, to this day residence of the family)
Oddo Colonna (1368–1431), Pope Martin V (1417–1431)
Prospero Colonna (1452–1523), condottiero once held as the best general in Italy.