House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome.
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14 Facts About Orsini family
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The Orsini carried on a political feud with the Colonna family for centuries in Rome, until it was stopped by Papal Bull in 1511.
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Orsini family obtained the city of Manoppello, later a countship, and was gonfaloniere of the Papal States.
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Orsini family had some ten sons, who divided the fiefs after his deaths: Gentile originated the Pitigliano line and the second southern line, Rinaldo that of Monterotondo, Napoleone that of Bracciano, and another Matteo Rosso that of Montegiordano, from the name of the district in Rome housing the family's fortress.
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Orsini family married Clarice Ruffo, daughter of the counts of Catanzaro, forming an alliance of the most powerful Calabrian dynasty.
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Relationships with the royal Orsini family remained cold under Joan II; However, when Raimondello's son Giannantonio sent his troops to help her against the usurpation attempt of James of Bourbon, he received in exchange the Principality of Taranto.
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Orsini family took part in the Aragonese campaign in Tuscany and was killed at the siege of Viterbo.
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The Orsini family recovered this setback under the more friendly Medici popes of the early 16th century.
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Orsini family's nephew Virginio was a famous admiral for the Papal States and France, but in 1539 he had his fiefs confiscated under the charge of treason.
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Orsini family was succeeded by Virginio, whose heir Paolo Giordano II married the princess of Piombino and was created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Orsini family was made Duke of Gravina by King Alfonso, a title definitely assigned to his son Giacomo, to which had been added the counties of Conversano, Campagna and Copertino.
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Orsini family's successor raised Benedict XIII's nephew, Prince Beroaldo Orsini, to the dignity of Prince Assistants to the Papal Throne, after the emperor Charles VI had already, in 1724, made him a prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Orsini family was briefly mentioned in Boccaccio's book The Decameron in the 5th day, 3rd story.
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