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Pages in category "Italian noble families" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total. ... Vitelleschi (noble family) Z. Zeno family; Zuppini family
The House of Orsini is an Italian noble family that was one of the most influential princely families in medieval Italy and Renaissance Rome. Members of the Orsini family include five popes: [1] Stephen II (752–757), Paul I (757–767), Celestine III (1191–1198), Nicholas III (1277–1280), [2] and Benedict XIII (1724–1730).
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (House of Savoy). The Italian nobility (Italian: Nobiltà italiana) comprised individuals and their families of the Italian Peninsula, and the islands linked with it, recognized by the sovereigns of the Italian city-states since the Middle Ages, and by the kings of Italy after the unification of the region into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
Italian noble families (150 C, 171 P) Italian nobles by title (16 C) ... Pages in category "Italian nobility" The following 116 pages are in this category, out of 116 ...
The "Consulta Araldica" (Heraldic Council) was established to prevent abuses and usurpations in the maintenance of existing noble titles in the old preunitarian Italian States, and was charged with keeping a Register of Noble Titles, in which official registration was compulsory in order to be entitled to public attribution of the title.
The Visconti of Milan are a noble Italian family. They rose to power in Milan during the Middle Ages where they ruled from 1277 to 1447, initially as Lords then as Dukes, and several collateral branches still exist.
Sannazzaro Natta moved into the 45-roomed, turreted, fairytale Castle Sannazzaro when she was four years old. Sannazzaro Natta is descended from Italian nobility and her father is a count.
The family originated with Tiezzo da Monticiano, a 13th-century wool merchant in Siena, whose nephew Borghese gave his name to the family. Among the important Sienese Borghese are: Agostino (1390–1462), noted soldier in the wars between Siena and Florence, named count palatine by Pope Pius II and count of the Holy Roman Empire by Sigismund