Posted by Lorenzo on 23/10/2009, 8:57:15, in reply to "Re: Papal Princes"
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During the ancien regime there were many noble families in the Papal States (probably in a ratio comparably similar to many other states, including France), but I do not think there were that many princes.
This is a list of the families who enjoied the title of "Principe Romano" (strictly linked to the city of Rome): some are extinct, like the Bonaparte (descendants of Lucien, prince of Canino), but I cannot exclude that rare other families from other cities might have received a princely title from the pope:
Aldobrandini
Altieri
Barberini
Bonaparte
Boncompagni Ludovisi
Borghese
Chigi
Colonna di Paliano
Colonna di Sciarra
Corsini
Doria
Ludovisi Boncompagni
Principe di Montholon
Odescalchi
Orsini
Pallavicini
Rospigliosi
Ruspoli
Santacroce
Strozzi
Conti
Torlonia
Del Drago
Gabrielli
Massimo
Spada
Of course, as those families may have various members there is a tendency in Italy as well as in the US to call all of them princes (instead of "Don X of the princes of Y"), so this may give the impression that there are more.
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