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Italian noble family

FilangieriItalian: Casa di Filangieri
Italian noble family
Coat of arms of the Filangieri of Naples
Parent family Duke of Normandy
Country Italy
Founded 11th century
Founder Riccardo "Angerio" Filangieri
Titles Prince of Arianello Prince of Satriano Prince of Cutò Prince of Mirto Prince of Santa Flavia Duke of Pino Marquis of Lucca Sicula Count of Avellino Lord of Lapio Lord of Vietri
Cadet branches Candida Candida Gonzaga

The Filangieri (or Filangeri or Filingeri) were an Italo-Norman noble family that first established as counts and lords in the province of Avellino (c. 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.

The name Filangieri originates from the Latin Filli Angerii (sons of Angerio) named after [Richard "Angerio" of Arnes](/w/index.php?title=Richard%5F%22Angerio%22%5Fof%5FArnes&action=edit&redlink=1 "Richard "Angerio" of Arnes (page does not exist)"), who adopted the nickname "Angerio" during his military service as captain of the Italian falangerio (phalanges) in the First Crusade.[1] They played a prominent role in the Kingdom of Sicily (prior to the War of the Sicilian Vespers) and the subsequent Kingdom of Naples.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

Alessandro Filangieri 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.[5][6]

Carlo Filangieri, 6th Prince of Satriano

Affiliated properties

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Basilica of St. Antony in Nocera Inferiore, architecture in Campania.

Palazzo Cutò in Bagheria

  1. ^ Aldimari, Biagio (1691). Memorie historiche di diverse famiglie nobili, così napoletane, come forastiere (in Italian). Naples: Giacomo Raillard. p. 84.
  2. ^ Coniglio, Giuseppe I Gonzaga. Varese: Dall'Oglio (1967).
  3. ^ Diligenti, Ulisse (1890). Storia delle famiglie illustri italiane (in Italian). A spese dell'editore Ulisse Diligenti. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  4. ^ Crollalanza, Giovanni Battista di (1886). Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti (in Italian). Presso la direzione del Giornale araldico. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
  5. ^ Hickson, Sally Anne. Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics, and Monasteries. (2016) Routledge, p. 87.
  6. ^ Berardo Candida Gonzaga (1879). Memorie delle famiglie nobili delle province meridionali d'Italia raccolte dal Berardo Candida Gonzaga. Vol. 5. G. de Angelis. p. 194. OCLC 162881040. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  7. ^ Cozzolino, Bernardo; Di Mauro, Leonardo (2006). San Sebastiano al Vesuvio: un itinerario storico artistico e un ricordo di Gaetano Filangieri. Napoli: Poseidon editore. ISBN 88-902407-0-9.