Don Orazio Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi, 1st Prince of Belmonte

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name =Don Orazio Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi, 1st Prince of Belmonte
title =1st Prince of Belmonte


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reign =? - 1645
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predecessor =Don Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi, 1st Baron of Belmonte, 1st Baron of Badolato
successor =Don Daniele Domenico Ravaschieri Fieschi, 2nd Prince of Belmonte
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spouse 1 =Donna Anna Maria Carracciolo Pisquizi, of the Lords (later Dukes) of Sicignano
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issue =Don Daniele, Don Ramiro (+1684, pre-deceased by son Don Gennaro Francesco +1662), Donna Maria Teresina (Abbess)
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dynasty =Ravaschieri Fieschi di Belmonte
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father =Don Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi, 1st Baron of Belmonte, 1st Baron of Badolato
mother =Donna Maria Ravaschieri Fieschi, daughter of Don Torino Ravaschieri Fieschi
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Don Orazio Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi, 1st Prince of Belmonte (?–12th October 1645) was a wealthy nobleman and patrician ('patrizio') of Genoa descended from the Fieschi, Counts Palatine of Lavagna. He was appointed Grand Seneschal of Naples ('Gran Siniscalco del Regno di Sicilia'), and on 5th March 1619 he was elevated to the title of Prince of Belmonte at Madrid by Philip III of Spain. [cite news
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Don Orazio descended from a line of imperial and royal bankers, his great-grandfather Don Giovan Battista and grandfather having been Treasurers ('Maestri di Zecca') to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and King Philip II of Spain respectively.

Prince Belmonte was the grandson of Don Germano Ravaschieri Fieschi and Donna Antonia Scorza, and the son of Don Giovan Battista Ravaschieri Fieschi, 1st Baron of Belmonte and 1st Baron of Badolato and his wife Donna Maria, the heiress of the feudality of Girifalco from her uncle Don Pietro Francesco Ravaschieri Fieschi. Donna Maria was herself the daughter of Don Torino Ravaschieri Fieschi, Treasurer ('Tessoriere') of Calabria, and his wife Donna Vittoria Spinola.

Upon Don Orazio's death his titles and estates passed to his son, Don Daniele Domenico Ravaschieri Fieschi, 2nd Prince of Belmonte.

See also

* Belmonte Calabro
* Castellabate
* Muro Leccese
* Acerenza
* Corigliano d'Otranto
* Galatone
* Argençola
* San Vicente
* Castellabate
* Copertino
* Badolato
* Veglie
* Leverano
* Rocca Cilento
* Santa Maria di Castellabate
* Tresino

* Kings of Spain
* Princes of the Holy Roman Empire
* Kingdom of Naples
* Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

* Belmonte (rose)

References

Further reading

*Ammirato, Scipione (1580, 1651), Delle famiglie nobili Napoletane, Firenze (2 volumes)
*Bernabo, B. (1994/1998), I Conti di Lavagna e l’alta Val di Vara, in Atti del Convegno I Fieschi tra Papato e Impero, ed. Calcagno, D., Lavagna and Chiavari Casa Ravaschiera
*Firpo, M. (1994/1998), La ricchezza e il potere: le origini patrimoniali dell’ascesa della famiglia Fieschi nella Liguria Orientale tra XII e XIII secolo, in Atti del Convegno I Fieschi tra Papato e Impero, ed. Calcagno, D., Lavagna and Chiavari
*Frank, Karl Friedrich von (1967-1975), Standeserhöhungen und Gnadenakte für das Reich und die österreichischen Erblande bis 1823, volumes I-V, Senfteneg
*Frank, Karl Friedrich von (1928), Alt-Österreichisches Adels-Lexikon, Vienna
*Ganducci, O. Famiglie nobili di Genova, secolo XVIII, ms. 94. Santa Margherita Ligure, Biblioteca Comunale
*Granito, Giacchino (1912), Memorie, notizie e docc. della Gente Granita, Napoli
*Ilari, Annibale (2001- Tipografica L. Palazzotti), I Gran Priori di Roma del Sovrano Militare Ordine di Malta
*Magri, Andrea (1640), Memorie della Nobilissima Famiglia Ravaschiera, Discendente da Gli'Antichissimi Conti di Lavagna
*Mediolani (1611), Antiquae Familie Scortiae, et Aliarum Comitum Lavaniae Antiquissima Monumenta
*Montefusco, Luigiantonio, Nobilta nel Salento Vol. III, Istituto Araldico Salentino, Lecce
*Musso, G.A. Stemmario p. 95
*Rietstap (1887), Armorial Général, 2eme Edition
*Rolland, V. H. (1926), Supplément à Rietstap
*Ruvigny, Marquis de (1914), The Titled Nobility of Europe
*Turchi, Gabriele (2004), Storia di Belmonte (Dalle origini alla fine del secolo XIX)

External links

* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/belmonte.html An Online Gotha - Belmonte]