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family.

The Pallavicini of Genoa

The first recorded member of the Pallavicini family was

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(died 1148). The first Pallavicino fief was created by

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, who received it from Holy Roman Emperor

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in 1162. A number of lines are descended from Guglielmo (died 1217), possessor of a series of fiefs between

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and

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The Pallavicini of the Latin Empire

Through the descendants of Guy and his brother Rubino, sons of Guglielmo, a branch of the family rose to prominence in the

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founded after the

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in 1204. They governed the Margraviate of Bodonitsa from 1204 to 1358. They grew in riches and, after 1224, became also the most powerful family in the former

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(northern Greece). The first margraves were of Guy's line until his daughter

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died, at which time the line of Rubino inherited the throne. The Pallavicini were related to the

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family then ruling in

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. After the death of

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in 1311 the Pallavicini influence slowly declined. The subsequent

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margraves were matrilineal descendants of the last Pallavicini marquise, Guglielma.

Notable members

Oberto Pelavicino Oberto Pelavicino or Pallavicino (1197-1269) was an Italian field captain under Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. He was a member of the noble Pallavicini family. Pelavicino supported Frederick II against pope Gregory IX since 1234. Starting in ...

or Pallavicino (1197-1269), Italian field captain under Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor *

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* Guglielmo Pallavicino (Pallavicino) (died 1217)Pallavicino
from the ''Genealogie delle famiglie nobili italiane'' at sardimpex.com. * Guy (died 1237) * Ubertino (died 1278) *

(died 1286) *

(died 1311) *

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(born before 1286, died after 1331), margrave of Bodonitsa, grandson of Rubino * Guglielma (died 1358) *

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(sometimes Rolando) “il Magnifico” (c.1393–1457) *

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(1441–1507), Italian Cardinal considered papabile in 1492 *

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(died 1466), Roman Catholic Bishop of Reggio Emilia (1444–1466) *

Carlo Pallavicino Carlo Pallavicino (Pallavicini; c. 1630 – 29 January 1688) was an Italian composer. Pallavicino was born at Salò. From 1666 to 1673, he worked at the Dresden court; from 1674 to 1685, at the '' Ospedale degli Incurabili'' (a conservatory wher ...

(died 1497), Italian Roman Catholic bishop of Lodi (1456–1497) *

Giovanni Battista Pallavicino Giovanni Battista Pallavicino (1480–1524) was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. Biography Giovanni Battista Pallavicino was born in Genoa in 1480, the son of Cipriano Pallavicino and Bianca Gattilusi. He was the nephew of Cardi ...

(1480–1524), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal *

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(1509–1585), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Genoa (1568–1585) and Apostolic Nuncio to Naples (1566) *

Sir Horatio Pallavicino ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "Sieur" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as ...

(c. 1540 – 1600), merchant, financier, and diplomat in England *

Benedetto Pallavicino Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551 – 26 November 1601) was an Italian composer and organist of the late Renaissance. A prolific composer of madrigals, he was resident at the Gonzaga court of Mantua in the 1590s, where he was a close associate of Gia ...

(c. 1551 – 1601), from Cremona, composer *

Francesco Sforza Pallavicino Francesco Maria Sforza Pallavicino (or ''Pallavicini'') (28 November 1607, Rome – 4 June 1667, Rome), was an Italian cardinal, philosopher, theologian, literary theorist, and church historian. A professor of philosophy and theology at the Rom ...

(1607–1667), Italian historian and cardinal *

Ferrante Pallavicino Ferrante Pallavicino (23 March 1615 – 5 March 1644) was an Italian writer of numerous antisocial and obscene stories and novels with biblical and profane themes, lampoons and satires in Venice which, according to Edward Muir, "were so popular ...

(1618–1644), Italian writer of antisocial and obscene stories and novels with biblical and profane themes *

(c. 1630 – 1688), Italian composer * Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino (1672–1742), Italian poet and opera librettist *

Caterina Imperiale Lercari Pallavicini Caterina Imperiale Pallavicini (also spelled "Catharina"; pen name, Arsinda Poliades; floruit, fl. 1721) was an 18th-century Neo-Latin (New Latin) poet from the greater Genoa region. Her work, which was published in the collections of the Pontifical ...

(fl. 1721), Neo-Latin poet *

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(1776–1777), Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals *

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(1722-1794), the 179th Doge of the Republic of Genoa *

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, general and governor of

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(second half of 18th century) *

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(1823–1901), general and senator who defeated

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at the

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* Johann, Markgraf von Pallavicini (1848–1941), Austro-Hungarian diplomat *

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Anna d'Androgna Parravicini, (1840-1922) Noblewoman and patron of the arts * Markgraf ''(Őrgróf)'' Tamás Csáky-Pallavicini (1960- ), Secretary General of the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations in the Vatican * Countess Elisabeth d'Udekem d'Acoz, sister of

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, married Margrave Alfonso Pallavicini in July 2006.

Family tree

References

Sources

*Miller, W.
The Marquisate of Boudonitza (1204–1414)
" ''Journal of Hellenic Studies'', Vol. 28, 1908, pp 234–249. *Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) ''A History of the Crusades: Volume III — The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries''. Harry W. Hazard, editor. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1975. *

External links

The Pallavicino Foundation
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