Colonna family

Colonna
Colonna
Black noble family
Parent family	Counts of Tusculum
Country	Papal States; Kingdom of Naples; Kingdom of Sicily; Kingdom of Italy
Current region	Italy; Vatican City
Etymology	"Column", from Trajan's Column or city of Colonna
Place of origin	Tusculum, Alban Hills
Founded	1101
Founder	Patrus de Columna
Current head	Federico Colonna; (Paliano line); Mirta Barberini-Colonna; (Carbognano line)
Titles	List Pope (non-hereditary); Prince assistant to the Papal throne; (1514–2018); Prince of Paliano; (1556–present); Prince of Stigliano; (1796–present); Prince of Sonnino; (1503–1796); Prince of Carbognano; (1630–present); Prince of Salerno; (1419–1432); Prince of Gallicano; (13th century–1870); Prince of Palestrina; (12th century–1630); Roman Patrician; (1101–1870);
Motto	Mole sua stat; (It stands by its own stature)
Estate(s)	Palazzo Colonna (seat); Orsini-Colonna Castle (1546–1806)
Website	www.galleriacolonna.it/i-colonna/

The House of Colonna, also known as Sciarrillo or Sciarra, is an Italian noble family, forming part of the papal nobility. It was powerful in medieval and Renaissance Rome, supplying one pope (Martin V) and many other church and political leaders. The family is notable for its bitter feud with the Orsini family over influence in Rome, until it was stopped by papal bull in 1511. In 1571, the heads of both families married nieces of Pope Sixtus V. Thereafter, historians recorded that "no peace had been concluded between the princes of Christendom, in which they had not been included by name".^[4]

^ Duchesne, Louis (1887). Liber Pontificalis. p. 307.
^ Beolchini, Valeria (2006). L'Erma di Bretschneider (ed.). Tusculum II - Tuscolo: una roccaforte dinastica a controllo della valle latina. Fonti storiche e dati archeologici (in Italian). p. 81.
^ Virgil's Aeneid, Book X, Line 771 (in Latin).
^ History of the popes; their church and state (Volume III) by Leopold von Ranke (Wellesley College Library, reprint; 2009)

[1] Duchesne, Louis (1887). Liber Pontificalis. p. 307.

[2] Beolchini, Valeria (2006). L'Erma di Bretschneider (ed.). Tusculum II - Tuscolo: una roccaforte dinastica a controllo della valle latina. Fonti storiche e dati archeologici (in Italian). p. 81.

[3] Virgil's Aeneid, Book X, Line 771 (in Latin).

[4] History of the popes; their church and state (Volume III) by Leopold von Ranke (Wellesley College Library, reprint; 2009)

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