Papal Genealogy: The Families and Descendants of the Popes

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McFarland, 2004 M08 25 - 271 páginas

The papacy has often resembled a secular European monarchy more than a divinely inspired institution. Roman pontiffs bestowed great wealth on their families and forged strategic alliances with other powerful families to increase their power. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), for example, forced his daughter Lucrezia into a series of marriages for political reasons. When her marital alliance was no longer advantageous, as was the case in her second marriage, her husband was brutally murdered. Many papal families also intermarried in hopes of forming a hereditary papacy; at least two members of the Fieschi, Piccolomini, Della Rovere, and Medici families served as pope.

Papal families since the early history of the church are fully covered in this comprehensive work. Genealogical charts graphically show the descendants of the popes, presenting in many cases the interrelationships between the papal families and their relationships with many of the leading families of Europe. Detailed histories examine the impact of the papacy on each pope's family and how each influenced the history of the church.

 

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Acknowledgments
1
and how far off everything seems
3
In the Beginning The First 1200 Years
7
The Family of Crescenzi Crescentii or Crescentius
15
The Papal Families at the Close of the Middle Ages
31
The Savelli Family Part One
37
Bishops Cardinals the Pope
42
Avignon Ends and a New Era of Italian Popes Begins
45
82
108
The Papacy after 1740 The Modern Period
131
Papal Dynasties and Noble Houses
139
Table XVIIIb
144
Table XXII
162
Papal Dynasties and Nepotism
165
Ancestors of Princess Diana of Wales
172
Additional Genealogical Tables of Papal Families
177

The Renaissance Popes and Their Families
51
The House of Borgia
58
The Medici and Farnese Families
71
The Renaissance Comes to a Close
82
The Papal Dynasties of the Baroque Period
89
57
101
Reference Guide to the Papal Dynasties
211
Chronological List of the Popes and Antipopes
230
Notes
237
Selected Sources
251
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The late George L. Williams, historian, educator, and former Fulbright scholar to Italy, lived in New York.

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