Prince of Belmonte

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Count of Copertino

Prince of Belmonte (

Risorgimento as Belmonte Calabro
.

In addition to the princely title, the princes were made

Count of Copertino
(1562).

The seat of the princes is Palazzo Belmonte, on the Bay of Salerno and south of

Henry the Holy, King of Italy and later Holy Roman Emperor. The Emperor created the title of Count of Lavagna and appointed the Fieschi as Imperial Vice-Regents of all Tuscany
and of the coast of Genoa.

Ancestry

The Princes of Belmonte descended from the

Spinola and Doria families. In the 13th century, the Fieschi were allied to the House of Grimaldi, modern day Princes of Monaco, in the struggle between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. The current prince is 35th in line from Frisco, 1st Count of Lavagna.[1]

The ancestors of the Princes of Belmonte include Sinibaldo,

Saint Joseph Pignatelli
.

Coin of the Reign of Charles V, Mint of Naples and Aquila, showing IBR.

Ugone of Lavagna was alleged to have been the first to bear the name "Fiesco" or Fieschi, attributed to his control of the fiscal affairs of the

vassals to the Holy Roman Emperor were given by the House of Habsburg
in 1521, 1529, 1568, and 1620.

Beltramino Fieschi, 7th Count of Lavagna, was succeeded by his son Gerardo Fieschi, 8th Count, who was known as 'Gerardo Ravascherius'. Taking the name Ravaschieri Fieschi, this branch rose to greater prominence as royal bankers in the Kingdom of Naples: Giovanni Battista was appointed Master of the Mint of Naples and Aquila (Maestro di Zecca di Napoli e L'Aquila) in 1552 under His Imperial Majesty

Order of Malta (died 1555). Germano followed his father as 'Maestro di Zecca', under King Philip II of Spain
, and was the father of Giovan Battista, 1st Baron of Badolato, and therefore grandfather of Orazio, the first Prince of Belmonte.

The princely title of Belmonte has descended to its present holder through the following houses: Ravaschieri Fieschi, Squarciafico Pinelli, and Pignatelli y Aymerich. The heiress of the last of these married the Marquess of Castellabate, uniting her lands and titles with those of the Granito family, patricians of Salerno (Seggio di Campo) since 1380.[6]

Residences

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Lagomarsino, Isabella (2009). "Storia e dimore di una famiglia signorile tra Chiavari, Genova e Napoli". de Ferrari.
  2. ^ Federici, Federico (1645). "Della Famiglia Fiesca". Genova.
  3. ^ Bernabo, B. (1998) [18 December 1994]. "I Conti di Lavagna e l'alta Val di Vara". Atti del Convegno I Fieschi tra Papato e Impero. pp. 49–50.
  4. ^ von Frank. "Flisco (Fiesco)".
  5. ^ Olmos, Jose Maria de Francisco (2005). "The First Coins of Prince Felipe de Espana (1554-1556): Sovereign of Milan, Naples and England". Documenta & Instrumenta, 3 (2005). Universidad Complutense de Madrid. pp. 155–186.
  6. ^ "Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Italiana (XXII edizione 2000-2004)". Consulta Araldica del Regno d’Italia. September 2000.

Further reading

  • Adels, Genealogisches Handbuch des, Fürstliche Häuser
  • Ammirato, Scipione (1580, 1651), Delle famiglie nobili Napoletane, Firenze (2 volumes)
  • Bernabo, B. (1994/1998), I Conti di Lavagna e l’alta Val di Vara, in Atti del Convegno I Fieschi tra Papato e Impero, ed. Calcagno, D., Lavagna and Chiavari Casa Ravaschiera
  • Firpo, M. (1994/1998), La ricchezza e il potere: le origini patrimoniali dell’ascesa della famiglia Fieschi nella Liguria Orientale tra XII e XIII secolo, in Atti del Convegno I Fieschi tra Papato e Impero, ed. Calcagno, D., Lavagna and Chiavari
  • Frank, Karl Friedrich von (1967–1975), Standeserhöhungen und Gnadenakte für das Reich und die österreichischen Erblande bis 1823, volumes I-V, Senfteneg
  • Frank, Karl Friedrich von (1928), Alt-Österreichisches Adels-Lexikon, Vienna
  • Ganducci, O. Famiglie nobili di Genova, secolo XVIII, ms. 94. Santa Margherita Ligure, Biblioteca Comunale
  • Granito, Giacchino (1912), Memorie, notizie e docc. della Gente Granita, Napoli
  • Ilari, Annibale (2001- Tipografica L. Palazzotti), I Gran Priori di Roma del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta
  • Magri, Andrea (1640), Memorie della Nobilissima Famiglia Ravaschiera, Discendente da Gli'Antichissimi Conti di Lavagna
  • Mediolani (1611), Antiquae Familie Scortiae, et Aliarum Comitum Lavaniae Antiquissima Monumenta
  • Montefusco, Luigiantonio, Nobilta nel Salento Vol. III, Istituto Araldico Salentino, Lecce
  • Musso, G.A. Stemmario p. 95
  • Rietstap (1887), Armorial Général, 2eme Edition
  • Rolland, V. H. (1926), Supplément à Rietstap
  • Ruvigny, Marquis de (1914), The Titled Nobility of Europe
  • Turchi, Gabriele (2004), Storia di Belmonte (Dalle origini alla fine del secolo XIX)
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