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The Savelli (de Sabellis in documents) were a rich and influential Roman
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 family who rose to prominence in the twelfth century and were extinct in the male line in 1712.

The family, who held the lordship of Palombara Sabina
Palombara Sabina

Palombara Sabina is a town and commune in the province of Rome, Italy....
, took their name from the rocca (castle) of Sabellum, near Albano
Albano

Albano may refer to:geography*Albano di Lucania, comune in the province of Potenza*Albano Laziale, comune in the province of Rome*Lake Albano, lake in Italy...
, which had belonged to the counts of Tusculum
Counts of Tusculum

The counts of Tusculum were the most powerful secular noblemen in Latium, near Rome, during the 10th century through 12th centuries. Their house furnished some List of popes and an antipope during the 11th century....
 before it passed to the Savelli. Early modern genealogies of the Savelli, such as the unpublished manuscript "eulogistic treatise" compiled by Onofrio Panvinio
Onofrio Panvinio

The erudite Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio or Onuphrius Panvinius was an Italian historian and antiquary, who was librarian to Alessandro Cardinal Farnese....
, drew connections to Pope Benedict II
Pope Benedict II

Pope Saint Benedict II was pope from 684 to 685.He succeeded Pope Leo II. Although chosen in 683, he was not ordained until 684 because the leave of Byzantine Emperors Constantine IV was not obtained until some months after the election....
, a possible but undocumentable connection, and even to the cognomen Sabellius
List of Roman cognomina

This is a list of Roman cognomen....
 of Antiquity.

They provided at least one Pope, Giacomo Savelli, Honorius IV
Pope Honorius IV

Pope Honorius IV , born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287. During his unremarkable pontificate he largely continued to pursue the pro-French policy of his predecessor, Pope Martin IV ....
 (1285–1281).






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The Savelli (de Sabellis in documents) were a rich and influential Roman
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 family who rose to prominence in the twelfth century and were extinct in the male line in 1712.

The family, who held the lordship of Palombara Sabina
Palombara Sabina

Palombara Sabina is a town and commune in the province of Rome, Italy....
, took their name from the rocca (castle) of Sabellum, near Albano
Albano

Albano may refer to:geography*Albano di Lucania, comune in the province of Potenza*Albano Laziale, comune in the province of Rome*Lake Albano, lake in Italy...
, which had belonged to the counts of Tusculum
Counts of Tusculum

The counts of Tusculum were the most powerful secular noblemen in Latium, near Rome, during the 10th century through 12th centuries. Their house furnished some List of popes and an antipope during the 11th century....
 before it passed to the Savelli. Early modern genealogies of the Savelli, such as the unpublished manuscript "eulogistic treatise" compiled by Onofrio Panvinio
Onofrio Panvinio

The erudite Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio or Onuphrius Panvinius was an Italian historian and antiquary, who was librarian to Alessandro Cardinal Farnese....
, drew connections to Pope Benedict II
Pope Benedict II

Pope Saint Benedict II was pope from 684 to 685.He succeeded Pope Leo II. Although chosen in 683, he was not ordained until 684 because the leave of Byzantine Emperors Constantine IV was not obtained until some months after the election....
, a possible but undocumentable connection, and even to the cognomen Sabellius
List of Roman cognomina

This is a list of Roman cognomen....
 of Antiquity.

They provided at least one Pope, Giacomo Savelli, Honorius IV
Pope Honorius IV

Pope Honorius IV , born Giacomo Savelli, was Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287. During his unremarkable pontificate he largely continued to pursue the pro-French policy of his predecessor, Pope Martin IV ....
 (1285–1281). His father, Luca Savelli
Luca Savelli

Luca Savelli was a Roman senator who in 1234 sacked the Lateran. He was born in 1190, died in 1266, and was married to Vana Aldobrandeschi. Luca's tomb is found at the Santa Maria in Aracoeli "Our Lady of The Heavenly Altar", along with his wife, and his son Giacomo ....
, was Roman senator and sacked the Lateran
Lateran

Lateran and Laterano are the shared names of several architectural projects throughout Rome. The properties were once owned by the Lateranus family of the former Roman Empire....
 in 1234. Luca's choice to side for emperor Frederick II
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II , of the House of Hohenstaufen dynasty, was an Kingdom of Italy pretender to the title of King of the Romans from 1212 and unopposed holder of that monarchy from 1215....
 against Honorius III's successor, Gregory, gained the family large possessions in the Lazio.

Later members include the condottieri
Condottieri

Condottieri were the mercenary soldier leaders of the professional, military Free company contracted by the Italian city-states and the Papacy, from the late Middle Ages until the mid-sixteenth century....
 Silvio
Silvio Savelli

Silvio Savelli was an Italian condottiero. A member of the Savelli family of Rome, he was the brother of Troiano Savelli.After the initial baronal struggles against the Colonna family and the Orsini, he was hired by the Republic of Florence, taking part to the war for Pisa in 1503-1505....
 and Antonello Savelli
Antonello Savelli

Antonello Savelli was an Italy condottiero....
. Savelli Cardinals include Giacomo Savelli (1539) Silvio Savelli (1596); Giulio Savelli (1615); Fabrizio Savelli (1647); Paolo Savelli (1664); and Domenico Savelli (1853). The last member of the family left in Rome was Giulio Savelli, who died in 1712. A collateral line, the Giannuzzi Savelli ('Giannuzzi' adopted later on) represent descendants of Antonio Savelli of Rignano who moved to the Kingdom of Naples in 1421 to fight as a condottiero. The title principe di Cerenzia has been held in that family since Ercole Giannuzzi Savelli dei baroni di Pietramala inherited it in 1769 from his mother Ippolita Rota, last of her house. The republican patriot Luigi Giannuzzi Savelli prince of Cerenzia was shot 3 April 1799 by orders of Cardinal Ruffo, and the feudal lands of Prince Tommaso Giannuzzi Savelli of Cerenzia were confiscated: Cerenzia, Casino (Castelsilano) Montespinello (Spinello) Belvedere Malapezza, and Zinga. . Nowaday, the title of Prince of Cerenzia belongs to the Paterṇ family.

Further reading

  • Litta, P. Le famiglie celebri italiane, Vol. X: "I Savelli di Roma" (Turin: Liverani) 1872.