Olimpia Aldobrandini

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Olimpia Aldobrandini (1623–1681) was a member of the Aldobrandini family of Rome, and the sole heiress to the family fortune. Her first husband was Paolo Borghese. After Paolo's death, Camillo Pamphilj (son of Olimpia Maidalchini) renounced a cardinalship to become her second husband. Part of her dowry in this second marriage was a collection of paintings, including masterpieces removed from the duke of Ferrara's "Camerino d’Alabastro", villas in Montemagnanapoli and Frascati, the great Albodrandini estates in Romagna and its palazzo on the Corso in Rome, as well as the Palazzo itself. These thus passed to the Pamphilj family, and became the nucleus for the Galleria Doria Pamphilj. Camillo and Olimpia had five children, of which the oldest was Giovan Battista (1648-1709), and another of which, Anna Pamphlij, married the Genoese aristocrat Giovanni Andrea III Doria Landi in 1671 (when the Roman branch of the Pamphlilj family ended in 1760, it was Anna and Giovanni who inherited the Rome palazzo).