Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 16902
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Allegrezza , Franca.
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  • Title: Legami di affinita nel baronato romano: il caso degli Orsini (xiii-xiv secc.) [Beginning in the early13th century, marriages united Rome's new nobility. The Orsini are a notable example of this homogenous group of nobles. Eventually branches of the Orsini clan began to intermarry. Beginning in the reign of the Orsini pope Nicholas III (1277-1280), the family began to diversify its marriage strategy by intermarrying with noble families from central and Southern Italy. Still, it tried to keep inheritance from dispersing the family's patrimony to daughters, bastards, and sons in the clergy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Le ricchezze delle donne: Diritti patrimoniali e poteri familiari in Italia (xiii-xix secc.).  Edited by Giulia Calvi and Isabelle Chabot.  Rosenberg & Sellier, 1998.  Pages 21 - 41.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Consanguinity Dowries Endogamy (Marriage Within the Group) Family Inheritance Marriage Nicholas III, Pope Orsini Family Rome Widows
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: Italian
  • ISSN/ISBN: 8870117243