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Luigi Braschi-Onesti (19 July 1745 – 9 February 1816), 1st Duke of Nemi, Prince of Rocca Sinibalda, Marquess and Count Braschi-Onesti, was a nephew of Pope Pius VI, who granted him his dukedom.
Life and family
Son of Girolamo Onesti (Cesena, 22 February 1708 - Cesena, 3 April 1790), Marquess and Count Onesti, and wife (23 December 1737) Elena Giulia Francesca Braschi of the Counts of Falcino (Cesena, 28 July 1719 - 16 January 1792), Pope Pius VI's sister, his younger brothers were Filippo Braschi-Onesti and Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti, Cardinal (the penultimate cardinal-nephew) and Camerlengo. His sisters were Anna Teresa Braschi-Onesti, Fulvia Braschi-Onesti, Nun under the name Benedetta, and Marianna Braschi-Onesti (1742), who married Giovanni Bandi. His great-grandmother was Countess Cornelia Zangari Bandi. His granduncle was Cardinal Giovanni Carlo Bandi.[1]
On Luigi's marriage, arranged by his uncle, to the richest lady of the Falconieri family, Costanza Falconieri, born in Rome around 1764 or in 1767, at the Sistine Chapel in Rome on 31 May or 9 June 1781, daughter of Mario Falconieri, Marquess Falconieri, and wife Giulia Mellini, he was adopted and granted permission by Pius to build Palazzo Braschi off Piazza Navona, and from 1787 and 1795 he built another neoclassical Palazzo Braschi at Terracina, as a private residence for his uncle.
The construction on his Rome palazzo was suspended from February 1798 to 1802, during the Napoleonic occupation of the city, when the French occupied the house and confiscated the recently acquired antiquities Onesti had housed there. Braschi-Onesti moved into the palazzo in 1809, when Napoleon declared Rome an imperial city, and was declared Sindaco or Mayor of Rome between 1809 and 1814, though the palazzo was still unfinished at his death seven years later.
Between 1814 and 1816 he was the 2nd Commander of the Papal Noble Guard.
Issue
His children were:
son Braschi-Onesti (1787 - 1787)
Giulia Braschi-Onesti (1793 - 1846), married Bonaccorso Flavio Bonaccorsi, Count of Castel San Pietro, and had issue
Don Pio Braschi-Onesti (Cesena/Rome, 5 June 1804 - Rome, 11 February 1864), 2nd Duke of Nemi, Marquess and Count Braschi-Onesti, 1st Duke of Nemi Grandee of Spain 1st Class by Ferdinand VII of Spain on 6 September 1828, married in Rome on 3 June 1841 as her second husband Maria Anna Curti-Lepri of the Marquesses Curti-Lepri (Cesena, 1803 - 1879), daughter of Alessandro Curti-Lepri, Marquess Curti-Lepri (1799 - 30 May 1870), and wife (Rome, 7 January 1828) Cecilia Bernini of the Knights Bernini (Rome, 3 September 1810 - 14 August 1855), and had:
Doña Costanza Braschi-Onesti (21 October 1843 - ?), married Francesco Zucchini, one of six children of Giuseppe Zucchini (1766 - 1837) and wife Annunziata Pallotti, and had:
Matilde Zucchini (1842 - ?), married in Bologna on 4 November 1900 Carlo Berti (Modena, 1859 - ?), son of Giovan Gaetano Berti and wife Clementina Bersani, without issue
Don Romoaldo Braschi-Onesti (Cesena, 22 February/April 1849 - 14 June 1923), 3rd Duke of Nemi, Marquess and Count Braschi-Onesti, 2nd Duke of Nemi Grandee of Spain 1st Class, married in Montevideo on 5 August 1882 Angela Manuelita called Emmanuelita Calcagno of the Barons Calcagno (Montevideo, 18 December 1859 - 1926), and had:
Doña Giulia Anna Maria Costanza Braschi-Onesti (Genova, 27 August 1883 - Rome, 8 April 1957), 4th Duchess of Nemi, 3rd Duchess of Nemi Grandee of Spain 1st Class, married in Zola Predosa on 19 October 1911 Clemente Theodoli (Rome, 6 November 1878 - Bologna, 26 September 1956), son of Girolamo Theodoli, Marquess of Sambuci of the Marquesses of San Vito and Pisoniano and Counts of Ciciliano (Rome, 25 December 1846 - Rome, 28 May 1926) and wife (Rome, 2 February 1873) Cristina Anna Maria Altieri, of the Princes Altieri, Princes of Oriolo, Princes of Aviano/Viano, Dukes of Monterano, etc. (Rome, 12 April 1852 - Rome, 16 June 1930), and had:
Don Pio Theodoli (Zola Predosa, 1 September 1912 - Bologna, 7 March 1999), married in Bologna on 28 April 1940/30 April 1941 Adriana Moscatelli (Rome, 7 October 1921 - Rome, 22 September 2008), daughter of Giuseppe Moscatelli, Vice-Commander of the Arm of the Carabinieri, and wife, and had:
Don Giovanni Angelo Theodoli-Braschi (Bologna, 1 May 1942), 5th Duke of Nemi, 4th Duke of Nemi Grandee of Spain since 27 December 1990, married firstly in Rome in 1970 and divorced in 1975 Giada, Princess Ruspoli (Rome, 8 March 1949), daughter of Sforza Marescotto, Prince Ruspoli of the Princes Ruspoli and Princes of Cerveteri (Rome, 23 January 1927 - Rome, 25 October 2022) and first wife (Migliarino, 30 November 1946 (divorced in 1983) Flavia Domitilla of the Dukes Salviati (Rome, 28 April 1925 - Migliarino Pisano, 6 April 2007), without issue, and married secondly in London on 26 February 1977 Maria Bernadette Milstein (New York, New York, New York, 11 March 1946), daughter of Nathan Mironovich Milstein (Odessa, 18/31 December 1903 - London, 21 December 1992), violinist, and wife (1945) Therese Kaufman (15 July 1915 - New York City, 9 June 1999), and paternal granddaughter of Miron Milstein, merchant in Odessa, importer of fabrics, and wife Marija Bluestein, and had:
Doña Costanza (Cosi) Nicoletta Theodoli-Braschi (London, 7 June 1982), married in New York, New York County, New York, on 27 June 2014 Adam Akio Crystal (Alameda County, California, 25 September 1976), son of Eric J. Crystal and wife Hatsumi Catherine Nomura, without issue
Don Stefano Marcello Theodoli-Braschi (London, 30 May 1985), married civilly on 27 July 2024 George Williamson, without issue
Don Marcello Theodoli-Braschi (22 August 1915 - 10 January 1981), who added the surname Braschi by Decree of the President of the Italian Republic of 16 October 1954, unmarried and without issue
