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Colonna family
| 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[1] |
| Founder | Patrus de Columna[2] |
| Current head | Federico Colonna (Paliano line) Mirta Barberini-Colonna (Carbognano line) |
| Titles | List
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| Motto | Mole sua stat[3] (It stands by its own stature) |
| Estate(s) | Palazzo Colonna (seat) Orsini-Colonna Castle (1546–1806) |
| Website | www |
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)
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