For other persons named Orsini, see Orsini (surname).
Orsini
Black noble family
Original arms of the family
Parent family
Bobone/Orsini
Country
Papal States County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos Despotate of Epirus Grand Duchy of Tuscany Two Sicilies Kingdom of Italy
Current region
Italy
Founded
c. 600 A.D.
Founder
Cajo Orso Orsini
Current head
Domenico Napoleone Orsini, Duke of Gravina
Titles
Pope (non-hereditary)
Despot of Epirus
Count palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos
Prince Assistant to the Papal Throne
Duke of Gravina
Duke of Amalfi
Duke of Bracciano
Count of Pitigliano
Motto
Senza rimproveri (Italian for 'Without reproach')
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 numbers of fiefs and lordships in Lazio and in the Kingdom of Naples.
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:[1] Stephen II (752–757), Paul I (757–767), Celestine III (1191–1198), Nicholas III (1277–1280),[2] and Benedict XIII (1724–1730). The family also included 34 cardinals, numerous condottieri, and other significant political and religious figures.[3]
^George L. Williams, Papal Genealogy (London 2004).
^ Richard Sternfeld, Der Kardinal Johann Gaëtan Orsini (Papst Nikolaus III.) (Berlin 1905).
^"ORSINI". Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
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many other church and political leaders. The family is notable for its bitter feud with the Orsinifamily over influence in Rome, until it was stopped...
passed on to a branch of the Orsinifamily until 1325, when it passed briefly to Angevins and then, from 1357, to the Tocco family. The Tocco used the county...
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noble Farnese family, who were prominent leaders in the Italian regions of Parma and Piacenza. After marrying into the noble Orsinifamily in the Papal...
Alfonsina Orsini (1472 – 7 February 1520) was a Regent of Florence. She governed the Republic of Florence during the absences of her son in the period...
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Orsino Orsini Migliorati (1473–1500) was the husband of Giulia "La Bella" Farnese (1474–1524), the mistress of Pope Alexander VI. The only son of Ludovico...
and King Alfonso IX of León. Giacinto Bobone was born into the noble Orsinifamily in Rome. He was appointed as cardinal-deacon in 1144 by Celestine II...
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the title today, and represents the remaining branch of the Orsinifamily. Among the Orsini dukes, Pietro Francesco resigned his temporal dignities in...
Giordano Orsini (1541 – 13 November 1585) was an Italian nobleman, and the first duke of Bracciano from 1560. He was a member of the Roman family of the...
Giulio Orsini (died 1517) was an Italian condottiero and a member of the Orsinifamily. In the 1480s Giulio fought alongside his brother Paolo against...
the Kingdom of Naples, mainly remembered as the powerful head of the Orsinifamily during its feud with Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). Though best...
Giambattista Orsini (died February 22, 1503) (also called Giovanni Battista Orsini or Jean-Baptiste des Ursins) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal...
Giordano Orsini was born around 1460 in Bracciano. He was the son of Gentile Virginio Orsini, III Lord of Bracciano, and of his wife Isabella Orsini. In 1482...
Laura Orsini, Lady of Carbognano (Rome, 30 November 1492 - Rome, 1530) was an Italian noblewoman, daughter of Giulia Farnese and, presumably, of her lover...
largely through family influence. The future pope, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, was born in Rome, a member of the prominent Orsinifamily of Italy, the eldest...
II; 714 – 26 April 757) was born a Roman aristocrat and member of the Orsinifamily. Stephen was the bishop of Rome from 26 March 752 to his death. Stephen...
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