Iacopo II Appiani (1400 – 27 December 1441) was the
lord of Piombino from 1411 until 1427.
[Mauro Carrara, Signori e principi di Piombino, Bandecchi & Vivaldi, Pontedera 1996.]
He was born in
Piombino
Piombino is an Italian town and ''comune'' of about 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno (Tuscany). It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma.
Ove ...
, the son of
Gherardo Appiano, whom he succeeded in 1411, remaining under the regency of his mother
Paola Colonna Paola Colonna (c. 1378 – 3 November 1450) was the lady of Piombino from 1441 until 1445.
She was born in Genazzano as the daughter of Agapito Colonna, lord of Genazzano. Her brother Giordano was shortly Prince of Salerno and Duke of Venosa, whi ...
until coming of age. He is described as a cruel man, switching abruptly his alliances from the
Republic of Florence
The Republic of Florence, officially the Florentine Republic ( it, Repubblica Fiorentina, , or ), was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on the Italian city of Florence in Tuscany. The republic originated in 1115, when the Flo ...
to
that of Siena, and then moving again to the former. He strengthened his position by marrying Donella Fieschi, daughter of the powerful
Genoese patrician and Florentine commander Gian Luigi Fieschi.
Iacopo died childless in 1427, perhaps poisoned, and was succeeded by his mother.
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1400 births
1441 deaths
Iacopo 2
People from Piombino
Iacopo 2