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    Giovanni Antonio (Giannantonio) Orsini del Balzo (9 September 1401 – 15 November 1463) was a southern Italian nobleman and military leader; he was Prince...
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  • Raimondo Orsini del Balzo (also known as Raimondello; c. 1350–55 – 17 January 1406) was a nobleman from the Kingdom of Naples. He was Count of Soleto (1382)...
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    The House of Orsini del Balzo was an Italian noble family from the 13th and 14th centuries. The dynasty was founded with the marriage between Roberto from...
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    family territories in Lazio and Tuscany. His second son, Raimondello Orsini del Balzo, supported Charles III' coup d'état in Naples against Queen Joan I...
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  • d'Enghien Orsini del Balzo) was the daughter of Mary of Enghien and Raimondo Orsini del Balzo di Nola and sister of Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo. Her...
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    of Copertino, and Caterina Orsini Del Balzo. She was also the niece and heir of childless Giovanni Antonio Orsini del Balzo, Prince of Taranto. Her maternal...
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    so until 1440 when it came into the possession of Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, prince of Taranto. In the first half of the 15th century, the Aragonese...
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  • French-born knight who married Catherine Orsini del Balzo, youngest daughter of Mary of Enghien and Raimondo Orsini del Balzo, Prince of Taranto. He was the father...
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    Raimondo had: Maria del Balzo Orsini (died after 1410), married Antonio di Acquaviva, Duke of Atri, etc. Childless. Caterina del Balzo Orsini, also known as...
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  • Pirro Del Balzo (sometimes Del Balzo Orsini; c. 1430 - 24 December 1491) was a southern Italian nobleman, a protagonist of resistance against the House...
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    Naples and Sicily arrived in Constantinople the condottiero Gabriele Orsini del Balzo, duke of Venosa and count of Ugento, together with 200 Neapolitan archers...
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  • part of her dowry upon her marriage to Raimondo Orsini del Balzo, Count of Soleto. Following Orsini's ascension to the title of Prince of Taranto, Zollino...
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  • Margaret of Taranto and Sueva Orsini. Blanche of Baux (or Bianca del Balzo) Isabelle of Baux (or Isabella del Balzo), wife of Antonio Sanseverino, Count...
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    tells that the family which owned this castle in the 14th century, the Orsini del Balzo family, kept a white bear in the moat of the castle. This animal was...
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    advantage of the duke's absence, a distant relative, Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, prince of Taranto, tried to capture Andria, which was defended by...
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    to southern Italy, giving rise to the Italianized branches of the "Orsini del Balzo" Counts of Avellino, Dukes of Andria and Princes of Taranto. After...
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    and the Aragonese. Passed to the Prince of Taranto Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, the feud of Acquaviva was assigned as a dowry in 1456 to his daughter...
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  • Isabella of Brienne, became Countess of Lecce. When she married Raimondo Orsini del Balzo, Count of Soleto and (from 1393 to 1406) Prince of Taranto, all of...
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  • III the Simple Giovanni Antonio del Balzo Orsini (1386–1463), Prince of Taranto, Duke of Bari, etc. Isabella del Balzo (died 1533), the second wife and...
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    later transformed in a Castle in the 14th century by Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, Prince of Taranto. Only a round tower remains from the original four...
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    Tricarico, the Caracciolo of Melfi, the Gesualdo of Caggiano, the Orsini Del Balzo [it] of Altamura and Venosa and other anti-Aragonese families. Later...
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    1383 - Otto (1320–1398), widower of Joan I of Naples; 1399 - Raimondo del Balzo Orsini, also known as Raimondello, husband of the Countess of Lecce Mary of...
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  • Altamura. Isabella was the daughter of Pirro del Balzo, duke of Andria and Prince of Altamura, and Maria Donata Orsini of Venosa. Pietro had served as Grand...
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    del Parco ("Park Tower"): is one of the medieval symbols of Lecce. It was erected in 1419 by the then-18 year old Giovanni Antonio Del Balzo Orsini,...
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    and Catherine of Taranto, designated heir of Prince Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo of Taranto, his maternal uncle, who had no children. Isabella was also...
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    this is the name used from the 16th century. When Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo decided to expend the city's castle, Mesagne evolved, with the construction...
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  • His father was Roberto di Romano of the Orsini family and his mother Sveva del Balzo [it] of the Del Balzo family [it]. From his father he inherited...
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    1492-1495, Silvio Biancardi · 2009, p. 54. Guido Lopez. Moro! Moro! Storie del Ducato Sforzesco. p. 109 – via Camunia. Archivio Storico Lombardo, serie...
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    Tokhtamysh, khan of the Golden Horde Toomaspoeg, Kristjan (2013). "ORSINI DEL BALZO, Raimondo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol...
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  • Francis of Baux (French: François des Baux, Italian: Francesco del Balzo; c. 1330 – 23 April 1422) was the first Duke of Andria, Count of Montescaglioso...
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