Borghese Petrucci

Borghese Petrucci was a political Italian, Lord of Siena from 1512 to 1516.

Biography

Borghese Petrucci was born in Siena in 1490, eldest son of Pandolfo Petrucci and Aurelia Bourgeois, daughter of Nicholas Borghesi. He had a brother, Cardinal Alfonso Petrucci. Borghese was named in honor of a presumed maternal grandfather. Siena does not appear in the sources with official duties, the first of its inclusion among the "resided" in the Balia of Siena, on 6 February 1512, when his father, now ill and near death, he decided to give him the primacy of the city. On the death of Pandolfo, in fact, occurred May 21, 1512, became the "Primus" and the city of Monte dei Nove, to which the family belonged Petrucci. Favored in government by his brother Alfonso, the cardinal of S. Theodore, exercised the functions of government in an international phase of confrontation between the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Venice, an ally of the Kingdom of France, after the agreements concluded at Blois in 1513. Upon election as Pope John de 'Medici with the name of Leo X, he tried to maintain the independent Republic of Siena, leaning, and Empire (of which Siena was a feud) is the Kingdom of Spain, with which Siena had entered into an alliance in 1511. But Leo X, given the importance of the Republic of Siena territory, wedged between the Republic of Florence and the Papal States, and also considering the family ties between Petrucci and Baglioni of Perugia, unable to occupy the territories directly, it facilitated the coup, occurred on 8 March 1516, which was summarized by the primacy citizen Raffaele Petrucci, Bishop of Grosseto and lord of Castel S. Angelo. Institutionally, did not change anything, because everything was presented as a change inside the Monte dei Nove, but in foreign policy, the Republic of Siena was inserted into a new "system" designed by Italian Leo X with which it sought to create uniformity Institutional and State: Florence was ruled by Cardinal Passerini, preponderate as the guardian of the Medici, Gentile Baglioni from Perugia, formerly bishop of Orvieto, Siena by Bishop Raffaele Petrucci and the Duchy of Urbino from Bishop Giulio Vitelli, a representative of Lorenzo II de 'Medici. All these little Italian powers, therefore, were directed to the same foreign policy pro-papal. Made a coup by his cousin, Borghese Petrucci was banished from Siena with a resolution of the Authority in May 1516 and moved to Naples, where, in the years following, he was named Baron. It ignores the date of death.

References

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