Principality of Piombino

The Principality of Piombino was an Italian small state - initially as an independent rule - from 1399 existed until it was incorporated in 1805 by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Principality of Lucca and Piombino. When the new principality was dissolved later, Piombino came to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

History

In the High Middle Ages Piombino was an independent city-state one of many only regionally important small principalities such as Volterra, San Gimignano and many others. Later it came under the rule of Pisa and was 1399 along with Elba by Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti of Milan awarded to you for the betrayal of Pisa to Gherardo Appiano and secured by this. 1594 Piombino was raised to the principality and came to the Ludovisi family, and later by marriage to the Bolognese Boncompagni later.

Napoleon gave the principality in 1805 as a French fiefs of his sister Elise Bacciocchi. The Congress of Vienna Act gave the house Boncompagni Ludovisi - 1815 Piombino back; until 1860 it was under the sovereignty of the Tuscan Grand Duke, and since 1860 belongs to Italy.

Lords of Piombino

  • Gherardo Appiani, 1399-1404
  • Iacopo II APPIANI, 1404-1441
  • Paola APPIANI Colonna, 1441-1445
  • Rinaldo Orsini, 1445-1450
  • Caterina APPIANI, 1445-1451
  • Emanuele APPIANI, 1451-1457
  • Iacopo III. APPIANI, 1457-1474
  • Iacopo IV APPIANI, 1474-1511
  • Iacopo V. APPIANI, 1511-1545
  • Iacopo VI. APPIANI, 1545-1585
  • Alessandro APPIANI, 1585-1589

Prince of Piombino

  • Iacopo APPIANI VII, 1589-1603
  • Emperor Rudolf II, 1603-1611
  • Isabella APPIANI, 1611-1628
  • King Philip IV of Spain
  • Niccolò Ludovisi I., 1634-1664, 1659-1662 Viceroy of Aragón
  • Giovan Battista Ludovisi, 1664-1699
  • Niccolò Ludovisi II, under regency of his mother, Anna Maria Arduino, 1699-1700
  • Olimpia Ludovisi 1700-1700
  • Ippolita Ludovisi, with Gregorio Boncompagni as co-regent, 1701-1733
  • Maria Eleonora Boncompagni, 1734-1745
  • Gaetano Boncompagni Ludovisi -, 1745-1777
  • Boncompagni Ludovisi - Antonio, 1778-1805, 1799 sold
  • Elisa Baciocchi, 1805-1808
  • Boncompagni Ludovisi - Felice, 1808-1814
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