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Filangieri

{{Short description|Italian noble family}}

{{Infobox noble house

| surname = Filangieri

| native_name = {{Langx|it|Casa di Filangieri}}

| coat of arms = Stemma della famiglia Filangieri.svg

| caption = Coat of arms of the Filangieri of Naples

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| type = Italian noble family

| parent_family = Duke of Normandy

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| country = {{Flag|Italy}}

| titles =

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| founded = 11th century

| founder = Riccardo "Angerio" Filangieri

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The Filangieri (or Filangeri or Filingeri) were an Italo-Norman noble family that first established as counts and lords in the province of Avellino ({{circa|1100}}). Having established itself in much of Southern Italy in the second half of the 11th century, the family played a key role in the history of the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Naples after the fall of the Altavilla family, which occurred at the end of the 12th century at the hands of the Hohenstaufen.

History

The name Filangieri originates from the Latin Filli Angerii (sons of Angerio) named after Richard "Angerio" of Arnes, who adopted the nickname "Angerio" during his military service as captain of the Italian falangerio (phalanges) in the First Crusade.{{Cite book |last=Aldimari |first=Biagio |title=Memorie historiche di diverse famiglie nobili, così napoletane, come forastiere |date=1691 |publisher=Giacomo Raillard |location=Naples |pages=84 |language=it}} They played a prominent role in the Kingdom of Sicily (prior to the War of the Sicilian Vespers) and the subsequent Kingdom of Naples.Coniglio, Giuseppe I Gonzaga. Varese: Dall'Oglio (1967).

Over the years, the family came to hold the highest political and military positions in the Kingdom of Sicily first and then in the Kingdom of Naples, finally coming to own a total of six principalities, eight duchies, two marquisates, sixteen counties and over 120 baronies. It was also awarded the Grandee of Spain, the Order of the Golden Fleece and other illustrious Orders of Chivalry and, in 1444, it was received into the Order of Malta. Among others, it enjoyed nobility in Benevento, Messina, Naples in the Seats of Capuana and Nido, Palermo and Trani in the Seat of Campo.{{cite book |last1=Diligenti |first1=Ulisse |title=Storia delle famiglie illustri italiane |date=1890 |publisher=A spese dell'editore Ulisse Diligenti |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xDk2AQAAMAAJ |access-date=28 April 2025 |language=it}}

The family eventually branched out into the following lines: Princes of Arianello, Princes of Satriano, Counts of Avellino, Lords of Lapio and Lords of Vietri in the Kingdom of Naples, Princes of Cutò, Princes of Mirto, Princes of Santa Flavia and Dukes of Pino in the Kingdom of Sicily, and Candida Gonzaga.{{cite book |last1=Crollalanza |first1=Giovanni Battista di |title=Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti |date=1886 |publisher=Presso la direzione del Giornale araldico |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j4UwAQAAMAAJ |access-date=28 April 2025 |language=it}}

=Princes of Cutò=

File:Alessandro IV Filangeri.jpg of the Princes of Cutò branch]]

The first to be invested with the Principality of Cutò was Alessandro Filangieri, Marquis of Lucca Sicula, who married Giulia Platamone, heiress of the fiefdom, in 1706. Among the Princes of Cutò there was another Alessandro, Captain and Justiciar of Palermo in 1726 and, Girolamo, also Captain and Justiciar in 1743 and gentleman of the chamber of King Charles III of Spain. The branch boasted various Viceroys and Lieutenants, including Alessandro Filangieri and his son Niccolò Filangieri. Their main residences were the Palazzo Cutò located in Bagheria in Via Maqueda, designed by Giacomo Amato, with a staircase built by the architect Giovanni Del Frago, and the Palazzo Cutò in Corso Vittorio Emanuele, opposite the Palermo Cathedral, whose façade is by the architect Emmanuele Palazzotto in 1836. Teresa Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò, mother of the poet Lucio Piccolo, Baron of Calanovella, son of Giuseppe, and his sister Beatrice, mother of the writer Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa, 12th Duke of Palma, belonged to this branch.Hickson, Sally Anne. Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics, and Monasteries. (2016) Routledge, p. 87.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnqK9uCKwjsC&pg=PA184|page=194|title=Memorie delle famiglie nobili delle province meridionali d'Italia raccolte dal Berardo Candida Gonzaga|volume=5|oclc=162881040|access-date=18 October 2024|author=Berardo Candida Gonzaga|publisher=G. de Angelis|year=1879}}

Notable members

File:Carlo Filangieri, principe di Satriano.jpg]]

Affiliated properties

=Campania=

File:ChiesaSAntonio.jpg, architecture in Campania.]]

  • {{ill|Basilica e convento di Sant'Antonio|it|lt=Convent of Sant'Antonio}} in Nocera Inferiore.
  • Candida Castle.
  • Immaculate Church and Sant'Antonio alla Cercola, built in 1755 by Cesare Filangieri, Prince of Arianiello, until 1877 it fell within the hamlet of Ponte della Cercola in the municipality of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio and was a branch of the Sanctuary of San Sebastiano Martire.
  • Palazzo Baronale of Lapio.
  • Palazzo Filangieri a Chiaia of Naples.
  • Palazzo Filangieri d'Arianello of Naples.
  • Palazzo Filangieri di San Potito Sannitico.
  • Palazzo Filangieri d'Arianiello di San Sebastiano al Vesuvio (birthplace of the jurist Gaetano Filangieri). Since 1877 the residence has been part of the territory of the municipality of Massa di Somma which changed its name to Cercola in the same year; the palace was demolished in the 1980s.{{cite book |last1=Cozzolino |first1=Bernardo |last2=Di Mauro |first2=Leonardo |title=San Sebastiano al Vesuvio: un itinerario storico artistico e un ricordo di Gaetano Filangieri |date=2006 |publisher=Poseidon editore |location=Napoli |isbn=88-902407-0-9}}
  • Villa Filangieri De Clario of San Paolo Bel Sito.
  • Villa Filangieri Rossi of Torre Annunziata.

=Sicily=

File:Palazzo Cutò 01.jpg]]

References

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External links

  • {{in lang|it}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080827174211/http://grimgio.altervista.org/genealogie/FILANGIERI.htm Genealogia dei Filangieri (XIe s.–XVIe s.)]
  • {{in lang|it}} [http://www.solofrastorica.it/GENEALOGIAFILANGIERI.htm Genealogia dei Filangieri (1256–1409)]
  • {{in lang|it}} [http://www.regione.sicilia.it/beniculturali/bibliotecacentrale/mango/ficarra.htm Nobiliario di Sicilia]