Principality of Piombino

Principality of Piombino
Principato di Piombino
State of the Holy Roman Empire
← 1398–1805 →
Flag Coat of arms
The Principality of Piombino in orange, in front of Elba island.
Capital		Piombino
Government		Principality
Historical era		Middle Ages
•	Established	1398
•	Raised to principality	1594
•	Prince deposed by     French troops	1799 and 1801
•	Annexed by French-     controlled Lucca	June 23, 1805
•	Granted to Tuscany	1815

The Lordship of Piombino (Signoria di Piombino), and after 1594 the Principality of Piombino (Principato di Piombino), was a small state on the Italian peninsula centred on the city of Piombino and including part of the island of Elba. It existed from 1399 to 1805, when it was merged into the Principality of Lucca and Piombino. In 1815 it was absorbed into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

List of rulers

• Iacopo I
• Gherardo 1399–1404
• Iacopo II 1404–41
• Paola 1441–45
• Rinaldo 1445–50
• Caterina 1445–51
• Emanuele 1451–57
• Iacopo III 1457–74
• Iacopo IV 1474–1511
• Iacopo V 1511–45
• Iacopo VI 1545–85
• Alessandro 1585–89
• Iacopo VII 1589–1603 (prince after 1594)
• Rudolf 1603–11
• Isabella 1611–28
• Philip 1628–34
• Niccolò I 1634–64
• Giovan Battista 1664–99
• Niccolò II 1699–1700, under the regency of his mother Anna Maria Arduino
• Olimpia 1700
• Ippolita 1701–33, with Gregorio as co-regent (1701–07)
• Eleonora 1734–45
• Gaetano 1745–77
• Antonio 1778–1805, deposed by French troops in 1799 and 1801

External Links

• Niccolò Boncompagni-Ludovisi Website of the Princely House of Piombino

References

• Abulafia, David (2010). "The Mouse and the Elephant: Relations between the Kings of Naples and the Lordship of Piombino in the Fifteenth Century". In Paton, Bernadette; Law, John Easton. Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Ashgate. pp. 145–60.
• Berte-Langereau, Jack (1955). "L'Espagne et le royaume d'Etrurie". Hispania 15 (60): 353–460.
• Romero García, Eladi (1986). "El señorío de Piombino: Un ejemplo de influencia institucional hispánica en la Italia del siglo XVI". Hispania 46 (164): 503–18.