Colonna family - Wikipedia
According to tradition, the Colonna family is a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter (1099–1151) son of Gregory III, called Peter "de Columna" from his property the Columna Castle in Colonna, in the Alban Hills.
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Colonna Family, noble Roman family of great antiquity and importance, descended from the 10th-century counts of Tusculum.
The Colonna Family
The Colonnas are an ancient Roman family whose history began nine hundred years ago. The very first documented member of the family was Pietro who lived between 1078 and 1108 in the countryside South of Rome, close to the town of Colonna from which the House derived its name.
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Colonna Family Counts of Toscolo- Italian Genealogy
Aug 11, 2022 · Colonna Family, noble Roman family of great antiquity and importance, descended from the 10th-century counts of Tusculum. The first to take the name Colonna (“de Columna”) was Piero, the son of Gregorio, Count of Tusculum, who on Gregorio’s death ( c. 1064) received the castle of Colonna in the Alban Hills, together with Palestrina and ...
The history of the powerful Colonna family - Discoverplaces
Jul 31, 2020 · The Colonna family is one of the oldest noble families in Rome, and many palaces and castles bear their name. The descendants still live in the large palace next to Piazza Venezia, which was started 600 years ago.
Colonna - Encyclopedia.com
COLONNA. Powerful family of Rome from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The history of the family from 1100 to 1562 was that of the Colonna-led Ghibelline struggle against the papacy, the Orsini, and other Guelf families.
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A celebrated family which played an important role in Italy during medieval and Renaissance times
Sciarra Colonna - Wikipedia
Giacomo Colonna, Prince of Palestrina (1270-1329), more commonly known by his bynames Sciarrillo or Sciarra, was a member of the powerful Colonna family. He is most famous for attacking Pope Boniface VIII and for crowning Louis IV of Germany as Holy Roman Emperor.
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Colonna Palace is one of the oldest and largest private palaces of Rome. Its construction began in the fourteenth century by the Colonna family, who still… A true jewel of the Roman Baroque, the Galleria Colonna was commissioned in the mid 1600s by Cardinal Girolamo I Colonna and his nephew Lorenzo…