Frangipani family

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Arms of Frangipani, from a manuscript circa 1700, now in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena

The Frangipani family was a powerful

Dante from the family.[1]

History

Taddeo Zuccari, Beheading of Saint Paul, 1558–1559, in the Frangipani Chapel of San Marcello al Corso in Rome

The family claimed descent from the

Otto I in the Frangipani archive at Castello di Porpetto, in Friuli, is dated 10 January 973.[3]
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They played a significant part in the struggle between Pope

Honorius II in 1124.[1] From no later than 1130 the Frangipani held the Colosseum of Rome, which they had fortified and which gave them strategic control of the approaches to the Lateran Palace, the papal residence, from the north and west; the family lost control of the Colosseum to the Annibaldi in the mid-thirteenth century.[4]
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In 1268 Giovanni Frangipane, lord of

Charles of Anjou, who beheaded him.[5]

The family had

Ninfa and Terracina, and later Nemi.[2]

The Roman branch of the family was extinguished in 1654 with the death of Mario Frangipane, marquis of Nemi. Two presumed branches continued, one in

Frankopan or Frankapan) on the basis of documents provided by Pope Martin V,[2] and from about 1530 used the Frangipane coat of arms; Croatian historians dispute the historicity of this connection.[6]

The Frangipani had the right of burial at the church of

Saint Paul. From 1558 or 1559 until his death in 1566, Taddeo Zuccari worked there on a cycle of frescoes of the life of the saint; the paintings were completed by his brother Federico.[7]

Members of the family

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Francesco Frascarelli (1970). Frangipani (in Italian). Enciclopedia Dantesca. Archived 17 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e Eugenio Dupré Theseider (1932). Frangipane (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed May 2015.
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  5. ^ Giovanni Frangipane (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2015.
  6. ^ Frankapan (in Croatian). Hrvatska enciklopedija. Accessed February 2019.
  7. ^ 10 - Cappella di San Paolo (in Italian). Rome: Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo; Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico-Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città di Roma. Accessed June 2017.
  8. ^ Frangipane (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed May 2015.
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