Ranuccio Farnese il Vecchio

Ranuccio Farnese called il Vecchio (* 1390, † 1460 ) was an Italian condottieri and feudal lord. He was lord of Mont Alto, Latera, Farnese, Ischia, Valentano and Cellere, from April 1419 Senator in Rome and Count of Piansano.

Ranuccio regarded as the founder of wealth and social position of the Farnese family.

Life

1408 was Ranuccio father, Piero Farnese, captain-general of the city of Siena and reached that his son was appointed as his deputy. 1416 Ranuccio was appointed itself the Sienese captain-general, and succeeded in a short time to hit the enemy with Siena Orsini.

1419 took him Pope Martin V. in his services and appointed him to the Roman senator. At this time he married Agnese Monaldeschi Cervara, the daughter of a patrician from Orvieto. 1422 he received half of Tessenano, a settlement near Viterbo with the only edition, the papal Camerlengo deliver 10 pounds of white wax annually. Even under Pope Eugene IV was Farnese as a military in the pay of the Pope.

Farnese commanded 600 horsemen and 100 foot soldiers, and since the payment was made only irregular, the arrears of the papal checkout were more and more, he soon became the largest creditor of the Pope. Ranuccio take this situation out for themselves by demanding castles, fortifications and his estates adjacent lands as collateral and received. He was able to increase the number of mercenaries and their services more expensive to sell through these new resources.

From 1431, the year when it was finally handed over the territory of Valentano and Latera the rule, he could " abluchsen " the Pope more privileges. So he got for 5 years all rights to the location on Lake Bolsena Marta with the option that this area should finally pass into his possession, if the papal debts were not paid by then. In the same way he came in 1434 in the possession of Montalto, 1435 he received half of Canino, Capranica and Badia del Ponte, and Mont Alto for himself and his heirs to the third generation, and finally in 1437 the castles of Castano and Capodimonte.

1434 received by the Pope for his services the Golden Rose.

When Nicholas V. ascended the papal throne, who was more a scholar, patron and client energetic as Warlord, let the entanglement of the Curia in military conflicts with neighboring States, and it was decided to separate from the condottieri. The papal checkout settled its debts with Farnese with 9,000 florins, and with the final rights over Mont Alto.

Ranuccio Farnese died in July 1450 and was buried at Isola Bisentina in Lake Bolsena in the family grave, which he of Jesse da Pisa had a year previously built.

Progeny

Ranuccio and Agnese Monaldeschi had 12 children:

  • Gabriele Francesco ( 1421/1422-1475 ). He was lord of Ischia, Cellere, Canino, Capranica, Marta, Isola Bisentina, etc. and General of the Army of the Republic of Siena ( 1450 ). He had been married in 1442 to Isabella Orsini, daughter of Aldobrandino Orsini, Count of Pitigliano and Nola. His descendants were Caterina, Ranuccio, Paolo and Agnese.
  • Angelo ( 1432/1433-1463 ). He was Captain in the service of the Pope and married Constanza (1430-1475), daughter of Galeotto Roberto Malatesta, Count of Rimini.
  • Pier Luigi Senior (1435-1487), known as Pier Luigi Farnese I.. He was lord of Capodimonte, Musignano, Valentano, Capranica, Piansano, Canino and Abbazia al Ponte and further papal vicar of Canino ( 1466 ). He married in 1464 in Ischia Giovannella Caetani and was the father of six children, including Angelo Farnese, Bartolomeo Farnese ( Lord of Latera, Montalto and Farnese, and captain of the army of the Republic of Siena), Giulia Farnese Pope Paul III and ..
  • Pietro, Captain in the service of the city of Orvieto
  • Caterina, probably died in childhood
  • Violante, probably died in childhood
  • Agnese, 1443 marriage to Paolo Savelli, Mr. Rignano
  • Lucrezia (1430-1487), 1445 marriage to Francesco dell'Anguillara, Count of Anguillara Sabazia, Lord of Vetralla, Giove and Viano
  • Eugenia, 1455 Marriage with Stefanello Colonna, lord of Palestrina, Castel Nuovo, San Cesareo and Genazzano
  • Pentasilea, marrying Costantino di Ruggiero Contranieri, patrician from Perugia
  • Francesca, marrying Gentile Monaldeschi Cervara, Count of Castiglione, patrician from Orvieto
  • Giulia 1511 Terziare of the Franciscan Order
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