The House of Gherardesca was an ancient Italian noble family of the Republic of Pisa, of Longobard origin. The family likely dates back as early as the 11th century.
They were one of the most prominent families initially in Pisa, then of Volterra and eventually of Florence. They were of Ghibelline sympathies and held the county of Donoratico.
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The House of Gherardesca was an ancient Italian noble family of the Republic of Pisa, of Longobard origin. The family likely dates back as early as the...
Ugolino dellaGherardesca (c. 1214 – March 1289), Count of Donoratico, was an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander. He was frequently accused...
Costantino dellaGherardesca Verecondi Scortecci (born 29 January 1977, in Rome), or simply Costantino dellaGherardesca, is an Italian actor, journalist...
The DellaGherardesca Tomb is a set of early 14th century sculptures from the tomb of the DellaGherardescafamily in Pisa, originally in the church of...
influence of the Republic of Pisa, the Pisan dellaGherardescafamily, Genoa and of the Genoese families of Doria and the Malaspina; the only native political...
administered in the name of the republic by the Pisan counts of DellaGherardescafamily with the castles located in numerous cities such as of Guardistallo...
The territory then was divided between the Republic of Pisa, the DellaGherardescafamily from Italy, and the Sardinian Judicates of Arborea and Gallura...
back to the 12th century as residential area for the powerful DellaGherardescafamily, ruler of Campiglia at the time. At the end of the 13th century...
head of the political party of the Raspanti, associated with the DellaGherardescafamily. In 1392, after assassinating Pietro Gambacorti and his sons, he...
Sulcis and Iglesiente, on the southwest, were given to the Pisan dellaGherardescafamily, while the Republic of Pisa maintained control over its colony...
Barbialla, owned in the Middle Aged by the Cadolingians and the dellaGherardescafamilies, then by the bishops of Volterra, the commune of San Miniato,...
building. Gualandi was the name of a Pisan family that owned the tower in the 13th century. Ugolino dellaGherardesca, his sons and two grandsons were immured...
hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in 1488. The villa was bought by the dellaGherardescafamily in 1538. In 1610, a private chapel was built but the cult practice...
territory was partitioned in three parts that were assigned to the DellaGherardescafamily, Arborea and Gallura while Pisa maintained the control over Castel...
archbishop Ruggieri degli Ubaldini incited against Ugolino dellaGherardesca. The Gualandi family is cited by Dante Alighieri in the Inferno (XXXIII, 32)...
da Vinci in ArtCyclopedia Pierino da Vinci's "The Death of Count Ugolino DellaGherardesca and His Sons" at the Lichtenstein museum in Vienna, Austria...
of Naples and Jacopa della Marra. Guido Orsini, first Count of Pitigliano (died after 1348), married Agostina dellaGherardesca, by whom he had issue...
fall of the Giudicato of Cagliari, Decimomannu belonged to the DellaGherardescafamily from Pisa. The Battle of Lucocisterna, fought between the Pisane...
the fall of the giudicato, it was under the rule of the pisan dellaGherardescafamily and then, from 1355, it was incorporated in the Kingdom of Sardinia...
grandsons. Additional comparison to DNA from modern day members of the DellaGherardescafamily leave Mallegni about 98 percent sure that he has identified the...
daughter of condottiero Ugolino Gonzaga by his second wife, Camilla dellaGherardesca. They had four sons, of which Antonio returned to become Count of...
Sulcis and Iglesiente in the south-west was given to the Pisan dellaGherardescafamily, while the Republic of Pisa maintained the control over its colony...
Villa Margherita a Marina or sulla spiaggia, built by Walfredo, Count dellaGherardesca, and Count of the Donoratico and Castagneto (1865 – 1932) for his...
the Duchess was having an affair with Tuscan aristocrat Count Gaddo dellaGherardesca; he supposedly also had feelings for Andrews. Shortly after this alleged...