Matteo Rosso Orsini, Lord of Mungnano Monterorondo Galeria and San Angelo

1178 - 1246  (68 years)

• Name	Matteo Rosso Orsini
  Suffix	Lord of Mungnano Monterorondo Galeria and San Angelo
  Birth	1178
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Oct 1246
  Person ID	I4067	Punturieri Family Tree

  
  

  Father	Giovanni Orsini (detto Giangaetano) Orsini   d. Abt 1200
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Stephania
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Perna di Crescenzo Caetani
  Children	1. Bertoldo Orsini  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. Gentile I Orsini   d. 1246  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 3. Rinaldo Orsini, Signore di Monterotondo  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Pope Niccola III (Giovanni) Gaetano Orsini,   b. Abt 1220   d. 23 Aug 1280, Soriano nel Cimino, Viterbo, Lazio, Italy (Age 60 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Gemma di Monticelli
  Family ID	F1496	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  1192 Giacinto Orsini

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY Matteo Rosso Orsini was the son of Giangaetano Orsini and his wife Stephania. In 1191 Giacinto Orsini was elected to the pontifical throne. As Pope Celestine III (1191-1198) he was extremely generous to members of his family, presenting them with church lands and titles. His grandnephew Matteo Rosso Orsini, grandson of his brother Orso, became the lord of Mugnano, Monterorondo, Galeria and San Angelo in 1195. With his wife Gemma di Monticelli, daughter of Oddo di Monticelli, he had three sons of whom two would have progeny and the third, Giovanni Gaetano, entered the Church. In 1241 Matteo was appointed senator of Rome and valiantly defended the city against the Emperor Friedrich II and his Roman allies, the Colonna family. The rivalry between the Orsini and Colonna families was to last for generations. In spite of this conflict, both families frequently intermarried. Matteo Rosso Orsini died in 1246. His son, Cardinal Giovanni Gaetano Orsini was elected in 1277 to become Pope Nicholas III (1277-1280).