Emanuele Appiani (c. 1380 – 15 February 1457) was
Prince of Piombino during the
Appiani dynasty in the Renaissance.
[Mauro Carrara, Signori e principi di Piombino, Bandecchi & Vivaldi, Pontedera 1996.]
He was born in
Pisa, the son of
Iacopo I Appiani, and followed his brother
Gherardo to
Piombino when he became lord of the
Tuscan city. When Gherardo died, he remained in the court but the lordship was inherited by his son
Iacopo II, under the tutorage his mother
Paola Colonna.
When Iacopo II died, despite Emanuele was the last living Appiani male, she kept the seigniory, thanks to the support of her son-in-law, the
condottiero Rinaldo Orsini. When Paola died, the latter inherited the title under his daughter
Caterina Appiani. In reply Emanuele married in 1445 to Colia de' Giudici, illegitimate daughter of King
Alfonso V of Naples, who marched to Piombino with an army. Orsini died of plague, followed soon afterwards by Caterina, and Emanuele could enter Piombino in 1452 after being elected lord by the city's Elders.
He died at Piombino in 1457, being succeeded by his son
Iacopo Iacopo is a given name
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References
1380s births
1457 deaths
Emanuele
People from Pisa
Princes of Piombino
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