Paola Colonna was the lady of Piombino

Principality of Piombino

The Principality of Piombino was a state of Italy, which existed from 1399 to 1805, when Napoleon absorbed it into the Principality of Lucca and Piombino...

 from 1441 until 1445.

She was born in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 into one of the most powerful family of Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

. Her brother Giordano was shortly Prince of Salerno

Salerno

Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....

 and Duke of Venosa

Venosa

Venosa is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata, in the Vulture area. It is bounded by the comuni of Barile, Ginestra, Lavello, Maschito, Montemilone, Palazzo San Gervasio, Rapolla and Spinazzola....

, while her brother Oddo would become Pope Martin V

Pope Martin V

Pope Martin V , born Odo Colonna, was Pope from 1417 to 1431. His election effectively ended the Western Schism .-Biography:...

. On June 18, 1396 she was married to Gherardo Appiani

Gherardo Appiani

Gherardo Appiani was the lord of Piombino from 1398 until his death.He was born in Pisa, the son of Iacopo I Appiani. He was lord of that city from 1398 until 1399, obtaining the lordship of Piombino in 1398 in exchange of Pisa, sold to Gian Galeazzo Visconti for 200,000 florins...

, lord of Piombino

Piombino

Piombino is an Italian town and comune of circa 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno . It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma.-Overview:...

. At his death she held the regency for their son Iacopo

Iacopo II Appiani

Iacopo II Appiani was the lord of Piombino from 1405 until 1441.He was born in Piombino, the son of Gherardo Appiano, whom he succeeded in 1405, remaining under the regency of his mother Paola Colonna until coming of age...

. When the latter also died, she left the principate, against the legitimate heir Emanuele Appiani

Emanuele Appiani

Iacopo III Appiani was Prince of Piombino of the Appiani dynasty in the Renaissance.He was born in Pisa, the son of Iacopo I Appiani, and followed his brother Gherardo to Piombino when he became lord of the Tuscan city...

, to her daughter Caterina

Caterina Appiani

Caterina Appiani was a lady of Piombino of the Appiani dynasty from 1445 until her death.She was born at Piombino, the first daughter of Gherardo Appiani, lord of that principality. She succeeded her mother Paola Colonna thanks to the army of her husband, the condottiero Rinaldo Orsini, whom she...

, married to the condottiero Rinaldo Orsini

Rinaldo Orsini

Rinaldo Orsini was an Italian condottiero, a member of the Orsini family.In 1426 he fought for the Pope against the Colonna family. In 1442 he was hired by the Republic of Siena, and in 1445 he became lord of Piombino and Isola d'Elba through his marriage with Caterina Appiani...

.

She died in Piombino in 1450.

See also

• Colonna family
  Colonna family
  The Colonna family is an Italian noble family; it was powerful in medieval and Renaissance Rome, supplying one Pope and many other Church and political leaders...