Annibaldi family

The Annibaldi were a powerful baronial family of Rome and the Lazio in the Middle Ages. They began to rise to prominence in the 13th century with the favour of Popes Gregory IX and Alexander IV, in the vacuum left by the Counts of Tusculum. In the late years of the same century they were however overwhelmed by the Caetani.

Coat of arms of the Annibaldi family

History

The family's most outstanding figure was Riccardo Annibaldi (1210–1276),^[1] who was created cardinal in 1237 by Gregory IX,^[2] and bought the fief of Molara. Other family lines than that originated with Riccardo were those of Monte Compatri, Castel Zancato and of the Colosseum. Riccardo was the first protector of the Augustinian Order.

Another cardinal of the family was the Dominican Annibaldo degli Annibaldi (1230c.-1272c.), who completed his preliminary studies at the Santa Sabina studium conventuale in Rome, and later was sent to the studium generale of the Dominican Order in Paris c. 1255.^[3] Annibaldo was an associate of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas. Thomas dedicated his Catena aurea, drawn up while he was living at the Santa Sabina studium, to Annibaldo Annibaldi. Annibaldo was named Master of the Sacred Palace by Pope Innocent IV in 1246. He was named a cardinal in the Consistory of May 1262, and died in 1272.^[4]

See also

• Tor Fiscale Park, Rome

Notes

1. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, Cardinali di curia e "familiae" cardinalizie. Dal 1227 al 1254 Volume I, p. 149, says that he died on September 4, 1276. According to the "Liber Annualium di S. Spirito in Saxia," his anniversary was on October 4: P. Egidi (ed.), Necrologi e libri affini della Provincia romana, I, 152.
2. Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913), p. 6.
3. "D'altra parte, fonti anche antiche affermano che l'A., entrato ancor giovane tra i domenicani nel convento romano di S. Sabina, dopo i primi studi - verosimilmente già sacerdote - fu inviato per i gradi accademici a Parigi e qui la sua presenza è accertata solo dopo il 1255." http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/annibaldo-annibaldi_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Accessed June 22, 2011
4. Conradus Eubel, Hierarchia catholica medii aevi I, editio altera (Monasterii 1913), p. 8. Antonio Senensi, Chronicon Fratrum Ordinis Praedicatorum (Paris 1585) 114 and 157: "Hoc tempore etiam frater Annibaldus Romanus ex magistro sacri Palatii, per Urbanum Quartum Cardinalis factus, sub titulo 12 Apostol. vir fuit eruditionis eximiae, & vitae probatissimae. Obiit in Vrbe Veteri, anno Domini 1272, et ibi requescit in conventu nostro."

Sources

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