Pio di Savoia

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Coat of arms of the Pio family

The Pio family, later Pio di Savoia, an ancient noble

condottieri
, diplomats or ecclesiastics.

In 1450 Alberto II Pio (1418–1463) obtained from the house of

Paul III and helped to establish the Inquisition at Milan. The main branch of the family (the so called "Alberto line") died out in the early seventeenth century with the assassination in Venice of the cardinal's nephew, also called Rodolfo, after the latter had been forced in 1597 to sell the last family fiefdoms within the Papal States
.

Another branch of the family, called "Giberto line" after one of Albert II's brothers, renounced in 1499 the coregency over the lordship of Carpi in favour of

Nocera de' Pagani in the Kingdom of Naples at the time under Spain). In 1720, the title of Grandee was conferred upon his son Francisco Pío de Saboya y Moura, erstwhile Governor of Madrid and Captain General of Catalonia. The Príncipe Pío hill and the Príncipe Pío multimodal train station in Madrid are named after them. The Spanish noble titles of 'Nochera' and Castelo Rodrigo with Grandeeship
are still in force in the 21st century and are held by the Italian family Balbo Bertone di Sambuy, descended in the female line from the Spanish branch of the Pio di Savoia.

A third branch of the family, called "Galasso line" after another of Alberto II's brothers—which was forcibly excluded from the coregency over Carpi in 1469—, is still flourishing in Rome, the UK and the US.[1] In the second half of the 19th century this branch of the family sued the Kingdom of Italy as the legal successor of the Este States, and succeeded in exacting a conspicuous compensation of 50,000 gold florins for the unfair seizure of the fiefdom of Carpi by the Este family, in violation of the aforementioned 1336 "Sovereign-to-Sovereign" agreement.[2] In 1930 the King of Italy Victor Emmanuel III of Savoy again bestowed upon Don Manfredo, head of the Galasso family line, the title of Prince Pio di Savoia.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ori (D.B.I.)
  2. ^ Degli Azzi Vitelleschi, p. 383.

References

  • Litta, Pompeo (1835). Famiglie celebri d'Italia. Pio di Carpi. Torino.
  • Campori, G. Memorie storiche di Marco Pio di Savoia (Modena, 1876)
  • Ceriani, Antonio Maria and Porro Lambertenghi, Giulio [it], "Il Rotolo opistografo del Principe Antonio Pio di Savoja", in the Archivio storico lombardo, ser. II. an. XI. fasc. I, pp. 1–34 (1884); ser. III. an. VIII. 96, and ser. III. an. XIX. 453.
  • Degli Azzi Vitelleschi, Giustiniano (n.d.). "Pio di Savoia". In Spreti, Vittorio (ed.). Enciclopedia storico-nobiliare italiana. Vol. 5. Reprint of Milan's 1928-36 edition. Sala Bolognese: Arnaldo Forni. pp. 380–384.
  • Ori, Anna Maria. "PIO - Dizionario biografico degli italiani" [PIO - Biographical Dictionary of the Italians]. Enciclopedia Treccani (in Italian).
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pio di Savoia". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 632.
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