Iacopo III Appiani

Iacopo III Appiano
VI Lord of Piombino
Variant of the Appiano coat of arms used by Iacopo III his successors as descendants of Alfonso V of Aragon[1]
Reign1458 - 10 March 1474
PredecessorEmanuele Appiano
SuccessorIacopo IV Appiano
Full name
Iacopo III di Emanuele Appiano
Other titlesLord of Scarlino
Lord of Populonia
Lord of Suvereto
Lord of Buriano
Lord of Badia al Fango
Lord of Elba
Lord of Montecristo
Lord of Pianosa
Count palatine
Born1439
Piombino
Died10 March 1474(1474-03-10) (aged 34–35)
Piombino
Noble familyAppiano
Spouse(s)
Battistina Fregoso
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(m. 1454; died 1473)​
IssueEmanuele Appiano
Iacopo IV Appiano
Belisario Appiano
Gherardo Appiano
Semiramide Appiano
Belisario Appiano
FatherEmanuele Appiano
MotherColia de' Giudici

Jacopo III Appiano, VI Lord of Piombino (1439 - 10 March 1474) was an Italian nobleman.

Biography

Iacopo Appiano was born in 1439 in Piombino, son of Emanuele Appiano, Lord of Piombino, and Colia de' Giudici, natural daughter of Alfonso V of Aragon, King of Naples.[2]

He became Lord of Piombino and Lord of the others family feuds in 1458, on the death of his father.[3]

Despite the economic difficulties, he tried to show himself as a patron of the arts, in particular, he hired the architect and sculptor Andrea Guardi, to whom he commissioned many works between 1465 and 1470: the construction of the Citadel to replace Appiano Palace, the Appiano chapel, a series of hydraulic works and the cloister with baptismal font of Sant'Antimo.[3]

Of poor health, in 1463 he fell ill with quartan fever, recovering from it (also thanks to the sending from Siena of renowned doctors such as Bartolo di Tura Bandini) but without ever fully recovering.[4]

Iacopo III Appiano died on 10 March 1474, in Piombino, due to the consequences of malaria.[5] A few months earlier, the same disease had killed his wife.[4]

Issue

In 1454 Jacopo III Appiano married Battistina Fregoso (1432- 18 December 1473), daughter of the doge of the Republic of Genoa Battista Fregoso, sister of the doge Pietro Fregoso and maternal half-sister of Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci.[6][7]

They had five sons and one daughter:[7]

References

  1. ^ Carrara, Mauro. Araldica Piombinese (Tre) (in Italian).
  2. ^ Meli, Patrizia; Tognetti, Sergio (2006). Il principie e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento: il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa. Studi e testi / Archivi di Santa Maria del Fiore. Firenze: Olschki. pp. 12–14. ISBN 978-88-222-5590-7.
  3. ^ a b Meli, Patrizia; Tognetti, Sergio (2006). Il principie e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento: il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa. Studi e testi / Archivi di Santa Maria del Fiore. Firenze: Olschki. pp. 17–20. ISBN 978-88-222-5590-7.
  4. ^ a b Meli, Patrizia; Tognetti, Sergio (2006). Il principie e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento: il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa. Studi e testi / Archivi di Santa Maria del Fiore. Firenze: Olschki. pp. 60–64. ISBN 978-88-222-5590-7.
  5. ^ Meli, Patrizia; Tognetti, Sergio (2006). Il principie e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento: il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo III Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa. Studi e testi / Archivi di Santa Maria del Fiore. Firenze: Olschki. p. 64. ISBN 978-88-222-5590-7.
  6. ^ Ambrogio Pesce, Le trattative per il matrimonio di Battistina Fregoso con Iacopo III Appiani (1454), in Archivio Storico Italiano, LXXI, n. 1, 1913, pp. 132-141.
  7. ^ a b Litta, Pompeo (1781-1851) Auteur du texte. Famiglie celebri di Italia. Appiani di Pisa / P. Litta.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)


Preceded by Prince of Piombino
1457–1474 		Succeeded by


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