Salviati family explained

Salviati
Region:	Tuscany

The Salviati were an important family in the Republic of Florence.^[1]

History

Some sources trace the origins of the family to a Gottifredo who lived in Florence in the twelfth century. The first documented member of the family is Cambio di Salvi, who in 1335 was among both the gonfalonieri and the . In all, twenty members were gonfaloniere and sixty-two occupied the position of priore.

Members

• • Francesco Salviati, archbishop of Pisa, hanged from the walls of the Palazzo della Signoria in 1478 for his part in the Pazzi Conspiracy Giorgio Benigno Salviati (died 1520), Bosnian-born adopted member of the family, theologian and archbishop
  • Jacopo Salviati (1461–1533), married Lucrezia de' Medici Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553), cardinal
• Maria Salviati (1499–1543), daughter of Lucrezia di Medici and Jacopo Salviati, married Giovanni delle Bande Nere, mother of Cosimo I de Medici.
• Bernardo Salviati (1508–1568), condottiere, general of the galleys of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and cardinal
• Cassandre Salviati, daughter of Bernardo Salviati, dedicatee of the Amours de Cassandre of Pierre de Ronsard
  • Diane Salviati, niece of Cassandre, dedicatee of the L’hécatombe à Diane of Agrippa d'Aubigné Antonio Maria Salviati (1537–1602), appointed cardinal in 1583
• Alamanno Salviati, cardinal from 1727 until his death in 1733
• Gregorio Salviati, cardinal from 1777, died 1794

Notes and References

1. Rendina, Claudio. Le grandi famiglie di Roma: la saga della nobiltà tra contee, marchesati, ducati e principati, sotto l'insegna di papi e cardinali, imperatori e re nello scenario di splendidi palazzi, sontuose ville e cappelle gentilizie. Newton Compton editori, 2004: p. 546