Rospigliosi family

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Arms of the Rospigliosi family
MottoOmnia a Deo
(Latin for 'Everything comes from God')

The House of Rospigliosi is an ancient noble Italian family from

Clement IX
.

History

12th – 16th century

Palazzo Rospigliosi at via del Duca, Pistoia, one of the two Rospigliosi mansions in the city, birthplace of pope Clement IX and his brother Camillo

The family originated from

the war for Parma (1551–52) and the siege of Mirandola (1551); subsequently he passed to the orders of pope, and in 1566 he was appointed by him admiral of the Holy Roman Church.[3] Other Rospigliosi were Knights of the Order of Saint Stephen or of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.[1][3] Several members of the family held the office of standard-bearer of the city of Pistoia : the first among them was Filippo Taddeo, who held this office in 1373, and the last Taddeo, who was standard-bearer for three times in the years 1566, 1571 and 1580.[3] In the 16th century the family, still living in Pistoia, split into two lines, that of Pope Clement IX, known as "del Duca" which resided in Palazzo Rospigliosi at via del Duca, bought by Girolamo Rospigliosi, and that founded by Giambattista Bati, which resided in the Palazzo Rospigliosi at Ripa del Sale.[4] During the whole 15th and 16th centuries, the Rospigliosi continued trading and owned a flourishing bank in Pistoia, with branches and correspondents all over Europe.[1] However, until the first half of the 17th century the family still gained most of its income from wool production and trade, and agriculture.[1][2]

17th century and later

Pope Clement IX, born as Giulio Rospigliosi, portrayed by Carlo Maratta

This family of merchants rose gradually to great fame after that Giulio, son of Gerolamo, was elevated to the dignity of

war against the Ottoman Turks.[3] One year later he was appointed commander in chief of all the allied forces (Venetian, French and papal) collected against the Turks, but at the end the fortress was lost to the Ottomans together with the whole island of Crete.[3]
Another nephew Teodoro Giulio Rospigliosi, Royal Ensign was sent in 1647 to Peru by Phillip IV, King of Spain, with offspring.

The move that made of the Rospigliosi one of the first families of the Roman nobility, was the marriage of another pope's nephew, Giambattista (1646–1722), with Maria Camilla Pallavicini, the heir of a rich and noble Genoese family.[1]

Giacomo Rospigliosi, cardinal-nephew of Pope Clement IX, in a painting of Carlo Maratta

Giambattista, nominated general of the Pope and created

Museum of Rome.[5]
Favouring his relatives, the pope continued the nepotistic politics of his Barberini, Pamphili and Chigi predecessors,[6] although it should be noticed that the positions that he was assigning were not supposed to generate large revenues, so that this can be seen as a first trend inversion with respect to the recent past of the church government.[3]

In the 19th century, the family expanded further its nobility status, when Giulio Cesare (1781–1859), fourth Prince Rospigliosi, married Margherita Colonna Gioeni, acquiring through that all her titles of nobility. From this marriage were born: Clemente, which gave rise to the branch of the princes Rospigliosi-Gioeni; and Francesco, who was the founder of the branch of the princes Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.[3]

While the Rospigliosi from Ripa del Sale branch came to an end in 1981 with the death of Clemente,[4] the current members of the Del Duca branch live in the Villa Aldobrandini Banchieri Rospigliosi and are still direct descendants from the line of Giulio Rospigliosi, (Pope Clement IX), through her ancestor Olga Banchieri. Actually also direct descendants are in Buenos Aires, Argentina which is the lineage branch of Brigadier Generale of the Royal Spaniard Army, Don Pascual Ibanez y Roca who died in 1805 in Buenos Aires, and married Maria Francesca de Rospigliosi e Ramirez de Saguez, founding members of the Ibanez de Rospigliosi family. They have had three children, Sebastian Pascual Pablo, founder of the Ibanez de Rospigliosi family in Mendoza City, Coronel Pedro Nolasco Tiburcio in Buenos Aires, Edecan of Gral. Belgrano, and Maria Ramona Francisca who married Gral. Tomas de Rocamora, founder of Gualeguaychu in Argentina.

In 1982, after the death of Clemente Rospigliosi, the last representative of the Ripa del Sale branch, the Forteguerriana Library of Pistoia received as a legacy the family library, where there is a large music section.

libretti.[1]

Residences

Palazzo Rospigliosi-Pallavicini in Rome, Quirinal

The Rospigliosi owned many buildings, in Pistoia, Rome and their surroundings. In the

Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi on the Quirinal Hill, in the Rione Monti. This building, originally belonged to the Borghese, was purchased in 1704 by Prince Giovanni Battista Rospigliosi, Camillo's son and nephew of Pope Clement IX, and his wife, Princess Maria Camilla Pallavicini, and became home of the Rospigliosi Pallavicini family, who still owns the half of it, while the other half was sold to escape the financial ruin due to the attempt of reclaiming the swamps of Maccarese, near Rome.[9]
Also noteworthy are the Villa Rospigliosi at the hamlet Spicchio di
Bernini by Mattia de Rossi,[10] the Palazzo Rospigliosi at Zagarolo, near Rome,[11] the Palazzo Rospigliosi-Pallavicini in Florence
, and the Palazzo Rospigliosi Banchieri in Pistoia.

Titles of nobility

Villa Rospigliosi at Lamporecchio, Pistoia, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

To the family were conferred several titles, as well as inheriting others via marriage. The papal branch, moved to Rome, has the princely title of Prince Rospigliosi in the

Don Filippo Rospigliosi, a family member, is the present (12th) Earl of Newburgh in the Peerage of Scotland.[12]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Osbat, Luciano. "Papa Clemente IX". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d e Capponi, V. "Rospigliosi Famiglia". Rospigliosi Famiglia (in Italian). Retrieved 9 August 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Giorgio de Gregori. "Rospigliosi". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  4. ^ a b c "Palazzo Rospigliosi alla Ripa del Sale". pistoia.turismo.toscana.it (in Italian). Comune di Pistoia. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  5. ^ Ferdinand Voet (Antwerpen 1639 – Paris 1689), "Ritratto di Pietro Banchieri in veste di "bella"" 1671 – '72 c.a. (from a paper of the Chigi Museum at Ariccia)
  6. Alexander VII
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  7. ^ "Biblioteca Forteguerriana. Fondo musicale Rospigliosi" (in Italian). Biblioteca Forteguerriana. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  8. ^ . Retrieved 11 August 2014.
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  10. ^ "Villa Rospigliosi a Lamporecchio". www.valdinievolepost.com (in Italian). Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  11. ^ "Palazzo Rospigliosi di Zagarolo". www.provincia.roma.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 8 March 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  12. ^ "Newburgh, Earl of (S, 1660)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2014.

References

  • Aa.Vv. (2000). Storia di Pistoia (in Italian). Firenze: Le Monnier.
  • Giacomina Nenci (2004). Aristocrazia romana tra '800 e '900: i Rospigliosi. Quaderni monografici di Proposte e ricerche (in Italian). Vol. 30. Roma.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Angela Negro (2007). La collezione Rospigliosi: la quadreria e la committenza artistica di una famiglia patrizia a Roma nel Sei e Settecento (in Italian). Roma: Campisano.

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