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 the 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 Principality of Piombino was a state of Italy, which existed (initially as independent lordship) from 1399 to 1805, when Napoleon absorbed it into the Principality of Lucca and Piombino. This state was in turn split, and Piombino in 1815 went to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

History

List of rulers

Lords of Piombino (Appiani dynasty)

• 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

Princes and Princesses of Piombino

• Iacopo VII 1589–1603
• 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 (1701–7)
• Eleonora 1734–45
• Gaetano 1745–77
• Antonio 1778–1805, deposed by French troops in 1799 and 1801

See also

• Piombino
• Grand Duchy of Tuscany

External links

• Rulers of Piombino
• Marek, Miroslav. "Boncompagni genealogy". Genealogy.EU.