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  Colonna family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Colonna family was a powerful noble family in medieval and renaissance Rome, supplying one pope and many other leaders, and fighting with their rivals the Orsini family for influence.
Stefano Colonna, an influential noble in Medieval Rome an Imperial vicar in the early 14th century.
Fabrizio Colonna, who was the father of Vittoria Colonna, and a general in the Holy League.
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COLONNA, a noble Roman family, second only to the Gaetani di Sermoneta in antiquity, and first of all the Roman houses in importance.
In the war of 1522 between France and Spain there were Colonna on both sides, and at the battle of Lepanto (1571) Marc Antonio Colonna, who commanded the papal contingent, greatly distinguished hin,self.
To-day there are three lines of Colonna: (I) Colonna di Paliano, with two branches, the princes and dukes of Paliano, and the princes of Stigliano; (2) Colonna di Sciarra, with two branches, Colonna di Sciarra, princes of Carbagnano, and Barberini-Colonna, princes of Palestrina; and (3) Colonna-Romano.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
COLONNA [Colonna], noble Roman family that played a leading part in the history of Rome from the 12th to the 16th cent.
As senator of Rome, Sciarra supported Holy Roman Emperor Louis IV during his Italian expedition and bestowed the imperial crown on him in 1328, but he was forced into exile when Louis departed shortly afterward.
Marcantonio Colonna, 1535-84, duke of Paliano, commanded the papal forces in the battle of Lepanto (1571) against the Turks.
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 ORB: Ecclesiology
The Colonnas were determined to take it away from them, and they put pressure on the three remaining independent cardinals who were unwilling to offend either family, both of whom had a history of murder and assassination throughout the streets of Rome.
The Colonnas tried to instigate a revolt against the Pontiff by claiming that Boniface's election was invalid as he had usurped power that rightly belonged to Celestine.
Under treachery, Colonna gained access with his troops and with drawn sword, Colonna found the eighty year old pontiff seated on his throne dressed in his pontifical regalia, with the three-tiered tiara on his head, cross in one hand and keys to St. Peter's in the other.
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 Guillaume De Nogaret - LoveToKnow 1911
By the aid of a Florentine spy, Nogaret gathered a band of adventurers and of enemies of the Gaetani (Boniface's family) in the Apennines.
The great Colonna house, at bitter feud with the Gaetani, was his strongest ally, and Sciarra Colonna accompanied Nogaret to Anagni, Boniface's birthplace.
Sciarra wished to kill him, but Nogaret's policy was to take him to France and compel him to summon a general council.
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Fabrizio Colonna fought honourably at Ravenna (1512) and was appointed by King Ferdinand of Spain as Grand Constable of the Kingdom of Naples.
Cardinal Pompeo Colonna masterminded the raid on the Vatican of 1526 and was deprived of his cardinalate by Pope Clement VII.
In the twentieth century, Prospero Colonna was thrice-time Mayor of Rome and a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Colonna
Although Julius II restored to the Colonna their possessions and dignities, and by the Pax Romana, 1511, put an end to the hereditary feuds of the rival houses, yet, their old-time position of quasi-independence was never again attained.
It was his defection from the Spanish ranks at a critical moment during the conclave of 1592 that defeated the aspirations of Philip's candidate, Cardinal Sanseverina and led to the election of Clement VIII.
To cement the friendship between the houses of Colonna and Orsini, Sixtus V married their chiefs to his nieces and ordained that they and their descendants should enjoy the dignity of Assistant Princes at the Pontifical Throne.
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 1294-1303. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
Philip IV of France answered with an embargo on the export of bullion; Edward I of England with the outlawing of the clergy; both were supported by public opinion expressed in their national assemblies (See 1296) (See 1296–1303).
Angered by the Colonna and their insistence on the validity of Celestine V's election, their appeal to a general council, and their support of the Aragonese in Sicily, the pope began a veritable crusade that exiled the Colonna.
Nogaret and Sciarra Colonna (See 1302, June) penetrated to the papal apartment at Anagni, found Boniface in bed, threatened him with death, tried to force his resignation, took him prisoner.
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 Pope Boniface VIII
The Colonna cardinals were Roman princes of the highest nobility and belonged to a powerful Italian family that had numerous palaces and strongholds in Rome and in the Campagna.
Jacopo Colonna, upon whom the administration of the vast Colonna family possessions had been conferred, violated the rights of his brothers, Matteo, Ottone, and Landolfo, by appropriating the property rightfully belonging to them, and bestowing it on his nephews.
Moreover, the Colonna cardinals had seriously compromised themselves by maintaining highly treasonable relations with the political enemies of the pope--first with James II of Aragon, and later with Frederick III of Sicily.
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 Pope Benedict XI
Benedict, judging a policy of indulgence to be necessary for the restoration of peace with the French court, absolved Philip and his subjects from the censures they had incurred and restored the king and kingdom to the rights and privileges of which they had been deprived by Boniface.
The Colonna cardinals were also absolved from their censures, but not reinstated in their former dignities.
Nogaret and Sciarra Colonna and those implicated in the outrage of Anagni were declared excommunicated and summoned to appear before the pontifical tribunal.
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The door, with arch at sesto sharp and arms coat of Colonna in keystone, was knocked down from Comune in 1878 and rebuilt in 1880, then a meeting with opposition controversy, by Camillo Massimo.
She was beautified with times to barrels, basin and cinnamon by Francesco Sciarra Colonna in 1724.
It was shut arbitrariamente by Maffeo Barberini Colonna of Sciarra in 1825 and the water he condottata to the new Pischèra on way one Mazzini.
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 Palazzo Sciarra Colonna E56   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
It was begun in the end of the 16th century by F.Ponzio and finished by O.Torriani in 1630 for the Sciarra Colonna family.
Maffeo Sciarra had the palace enlarged and adjoined Galleria Sciarra (architect Giulio De Angelis) entirely frescoed and a Teatro Quirino.
In 1900 the palace was sold for debts to the Cassa Nazionale di Previdenza (a financial institution), and the paintings from its Gallery were spread in different museums of Italy and abroad.
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 AllRefer.com - Colonna (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Prospero Colonna, 1452–1523, Fabrizio's cousin, also fought the French in the Italian Wars and defeated them (1522) at La Bicocca.
Marcantonio Colonna, 1535–84, duke of Paliano, commanded the papal forces in the battle of Lepanto (1571) against the Turks.
The Colonna Palace in Rome was begun by Martin V. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright © 2003, Columbia University Press.
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 Pope Boniface VIII
His bitterest quarrels were with the emperor Albert I of Habsburg, with the powerful family of the Colonnas, and with Philip the Fair of France, whom he excommunicated in 1303.
He was about to lay all France under an interdict when he was seized at Agnani[?] by a party of horsemen under Philippe de Nogaret[?], an agent of Philip and Sciarra Colonna.
After three days' captivity he was released by the town's people, but the agitation he had undergone caused his death soon after, on October 11 1303.
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 Chapter State Of Rome From The Twelfth Century. of History of The Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire by Gibbon
By the usurpation of Cavæ, the Colonna provoked the arms of Paschal the Second; but they lawfully held in the Campagna of Rome the hereditary fiefs of Zagarola and Colonna; and the latter of these towns was probably adorned with some lofty pillar, the relic of a villa or temple.
His civil acts were annulled by the Roman people, who restored the honors and possessions of the Colonna; and some estimate may be formed of their wealth by their losses, of their losses by the damages of one hundred thousand gold florins which were granted them against the accomplices and heirs of the deceased pope.
The boldness of Sciarra Colonna was signalized in the captivity of Boniface, and long afterwards in the coronation of Lewis of Bavaria; and by the gratitude of the emperor, the pillar in their arms was encircled with a royal crown.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Anagni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
His election, which occurred after the historical and dark abdication of Celestine V, was opposed by French Cardinals and by the powerful Colonna Family.
The Pope was captured in his palace at Anagni in September 1303, by the French and Italian soldiers led by Guglielmo di Nogaret and Sciarra Colonna.
According to a legend, in such circumstances the Pope was slapped by Sciarra Colonna: the episode was therefore rememberd in Italian History as the Schiaffo di Anagni ("Anagni's Slap").
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 October 6 THE HISTORY OF THE MASS AND HOLY MOTHER CHURCH: (oct6his.htm)
Meanwhile, the Colonna family, intent on revenge, took advantage of Boniface's misfortune and circulated throughout Europe a long list of the crimes they felt Boniface was guilty of committing.
He had already recruited the armies of the Colonna family headed by Sciarra Colonna aided by Guillaume de Nogaret, Philip's new advisor, to march into Anagni where Boniface's quarters were and capture the Pope, which they did.
This fued between Nogaret and Sciarra proved to be Boniface's break for while they were fighting in-house, one of the anti-Colonna leaders Cardinal Nicholas Boccasini from the rival Orsini family rescued him and drove the Colonna family from Anagni.
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 History of the Christian Church, Volume VI: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1294-1517.
Only Sciarra Colonna and Nogaret were excepted from the act of immediate clemency and ordered to appear at Rome.
The source of her gains gone, the city withered away and was reduced to the proportions, the poverty, and the dull happenings of a provincial town, till in 1370 the population numbered less than 20,000.
The Colonna were as hostile to the memory of Boniface as they were zealous in their writings for the memory of Coelestine V. They pronounced it to be contrary to the divine ordinance for a pope to abdicate.
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 JRULM: Special Collections Guide: The Colonna Missal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The 16th-century Colonna Missal, Rylands Latin MS 32 - 37, originally from the Sciarra-Colonna Library in Rome, and now in the Latin Manuscripts collection of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, England, is a magnificent example of Renaissance art.
The centre of the lower margin is occupied by the Colonna arms surmounted by a cardinal's hat set on blue ground with gold flourishing, within a circular frame of two gold bands, the ground between, red with gold ornaments, pearls, and other jewels.
Behind, on the left, is a rock, and on the right a landscape with water and mountains.
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 Barberini - LoveToKnow 1911
Taddeo fled to Paris, where he died in 1647, and with him the family became extinct in the male line.
His daughter Cornelia married Prince Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra in 1728, who added her name to his own.
On the death of Prince Enrico Barberini-Colonna the name went to his daughter and heiress Donna Maria and her husband Marquis Luigi Sacchetti, who received the title of prince of Palestrina and permission to bear the name of Barberini.
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 Colonna
Louis IV during his Italian expedition and bestowed the imperial crown on him in 1328, but he was forced into exile when Louis departed shortly afterward.
Colonna, Vittoria, marchesa di Pescara - Colonna, Vittoria, marchesa di Pescara, 1492–1547, Italian poet; daughter of Fabrizio...
Walewski, Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Comte - Walewski, Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna, Comte, 1810–68, French diplomat, b.
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 Palazzo Colonna di Sciarra
The subject is a very nice palace built by Flaminio Ponzio in the XVIth century for the Colonna family or more exactly for the Sciarra branch of it.
In the description below the plate Vasi made reference to: 1) Palazzo Sciarra; 2) Arco di Carbognano (pulled down in the XIXth century when the central part of Via del Corso was enlarged); 3) Porta del Popolo; 4) Street linking Fontana di Trevi with Piazza di Pietra.
Dal palazzo del Principe di Carbognano della nobilissima famiglia Colonna di Sciarra prende questa piazza il suo nome, ed è molto frequentata dalla nobiltà; e cittadinanza per le botteghe del caffè, specialmente per quella del Veneziano, in cui si trovano oltre l'esquisite bevande calde, e fredde, anco de' canditi, e confetture particolari.
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 Sciarra Colonna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sciarra Colonna, byname of Giacomo Colonna (1270-1329), was a member of the powerful Colonna family, and a strong enemy of pope Boniface VIII.
During the Outrage of Anagni, in September 1303, Sciarra reportedly slapped him in the face.
This page was last modified 10:08, 14 June 2006.
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 COLONNA - Online Information article about COLONNA
Martin V. (1417—1431) was a Colonna, and conferred immense estates on his family, including See also:
Spain there were Colonna on both sides, and at the See also:
Antonio Colonna, who commanded the papal contingent, greatly distinguished hin,self.
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 Colonna - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
John Colonna dies; former fire chief in St. Paul.(NEWS)(Obituary)
Colonna's Shipyard of Virginia Gets 2nd Navy Contract in 2 Months.(Originated from The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.)
Jean COLONNA studied at the Ecole de Haute Couture of Paris.
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 HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Book 6 Chapter 01
Two of the Colonna, James and Peter, who were cardinals, had been friends of Coelestine, and supporters of that pope gathered around them.
With him was joined Sciarra Colonna, who, with other members of his family, had found refuge in France, and was thirsting for revenge for their proscription by the pope.
The palaces of two of Boniface's nephews and several of the cardinals were stormed and seized by Sciarra Colonna, who then offered the pope life on the three conditions that the Colonna be restored, Boniface resign, and that he place himself in the hands of the conspirators.
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 Popes
The extremists among the Franciscans joined with the powerful Colonna family to oppose the Pope.
He deposed the Colonna cardinals and destroyed the Colonna stronghold of Palestrina.
When Colonna and his swordsmen broke in, Boniface greeted them with the words, "Here is my neck, here is my head." Colonna was quite ready to kill the Pope, but Nogaret restrained him.
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 Solferinii: COLONNA
Marcantonio Pr COLONNA was born 8 Apr 1844.
Livia COLONNA was born 1 Nov 1855, x don Ferdinando ÁLVAREZ de TOLEDO.
Aspreno Guiseppe COLONNA was born 17 Aug 1916.
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 Rione Trevi
It borders to the west on Pigna, to the south and the east on Monti and to the north on Colonna and the walls of Rome.
Rione Trevi has some of the most imposing palaces of Rome: Palazzo del Quirinale and Palazzo Barberini were built between the end of the XVIth century and the first half of the next century on the Quirinale hill, when the area was almost considered countryside and they did not have space limitations.
Other interesting palaces of more or less the same period are Palazzo Sciarra, Palazzo Colonna and Palazzo Odescalchi, all between Via del Corso and the Quirinale hill.
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