Colonna family

See also: Colonna, Column

The family Colonna (sometimes Column in French) is a famous Italian family of the Rome medieval and reappearing, having provided a Pape (Martin V) and much of cardinals, and who had the Orsini for rivals.

According to the family tradition, Colonna are a branch of the counts of Tusculum. The first cardinal of this family was named in 1192 (Giovanni Colonna).

In 1297, the Cardinal Jacopo Colonna déhérita her brothers Ottone, Matteo, and Landolfo their grounds. They called upon the pope Boniface VIII, which ordered in Jacopo to restore the grounds, and to turn over to the the Holy See the stronghold of Colonna, Palestrina, as well as other cities. Jacopo refused: in May, Boniface excludes it from the Collège of the cardinals and excommunicated it, him and them his for four generations. The Colonna family (except for the three allied brothers of the pope) declared whereas Boniface had been elected irregularly following abdication without precedent of Célestin V three years before. This quarrel degenerated into open war, and Boniface in September named Landolfo with the head of its armies in order to put a term at the revolt of its own family. It is what it did, and at the end of 1298, Colonna, Palestrina, and other cities were taken and shaven. the family goods were distributed to Landolfo and his/her honest brothers, while the remainder of the family fled the Italy.

In 1728, the family added the name of Barberini to her patronym when Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra married Cornelia Barberini, girl of the Barberini last carrying this name, Taddeo Barberini.

The Colonna family members are Princes Assistants of the Holy See since 1710, and their title of prince is a pontifical title which goes back to 1854.

Principal members

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