Antonio II Boncompagni Ludovisi

Don Antonio II Boncompagni-Ludovisi, then Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 15 January/16 June 1735 – Rome, 26 April 1805), was the 8th Duke of Sora, Aquino, Arce and Arpino and 9th Marquess of Vignola and the Prince of Piombino, Marquis of Populonia, Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, Lord di Scarlino, Populonia, Vignale, Abbadia del Fango, Suvereto, Buriano, Cerboli e Palmaiolan, and Lord prince of the Tuscan Archipelago including the islands of Elba, Montecristo, Pianosa, Gorgona, Capraia, and Isola del Giglio, from 1733 until he ceded the duchy in 1796 and was deposed in the principality on 21 March 1801 and in the marquessate during the Napoleonic Wars.

He was the eldest son of Don Gaetano I Boncompagni Ludovisi, Prince of Piombino and Duke of Sora, and wife Donna Laura, Princess Chigi della Rovere of the Princes of Farnese.

Marriages and issue

He married firstly in Rome on 25 April 1757 Donna Maria Giacinta Orsini of the Dukes of Gravina (Rome, 24 August 1741 - Rome, 9 June 1759), without issue, and married secondly in Rome on 25 November 1761 Donna Maria Vittoria Sforza-Cesarini of the Princes of Genzano (Rome, 12 March/May 1743 - Rome, 5 March 1778) and had three children:

• Donna Anna-Eleonora, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (5 March 1763 - 1767)
• Don Ludovico/Luigi I Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 22/29 April 1767 - Rome, 9 March/May 1841), Prince of Piombino, Duke of Sora, etc, married on 24 November 1796 Donna Maddalena, Princess Odescalchi of the Princes Odescalchi, Dukes of Syrmia/Sirmio, Dukes of Bracciano, Dukes of Ceri, etc (Rome, 10 August 1782 - Rome, 8 March 1840/1846), and had issue:
  • Donna Vittoria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 10 January 1799 - Rome, 25 January 1840), married in Rome on 19 January 1817 Don Clemente, Prince Altieri, Prince of Oriolo, etc (Rome, 6 August 1795 - Rome, 21 June 1873), and had issue
  • Donna Giovanna, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (14 October 1802 - 1856/1858), married in 1822 Gieronimo, Marchese Serlupi-Crescenzi
  • Don Antonio, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (11 August 1808 - 10 July 1883), Prince of Piombino, Duke of Sora, etc, married on 4 October 1829 Donna Guglielma of the Dukes of Massimo (25 November 1811 - 14 February 1899), and had issue:
    • Don Rodolfo, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 6 February 1832 - Rome, 12 December 1911), Prince of Piombino, Duke of Sora, etc, married in Rome on 31 May 1854 Donna Agnese Borghese of the Princes Borghese, Princes Aldobrandini, etc (Rome, 5 May 1836 - Rome, 22 March 1920), and had issue:
      • Don Ugo Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 8 May 1856 - Rome, 9 November 1935), Duke of Sora; he became a priest on 27 January 1895 and did not assume the Piombino title; married firstly in Rome on 7 October 1877 Donna Vittoria Patrizi-Naro-Montoro (Rome, 27 April 1857 - Paris, 22 January 1883), and had issue, and married secondly in Rome on 6 July 1884 his second cousin Donna Laura Altieri of the Princes Altieri, Princes of Oriolo, etc (Rome, 29 January 1858 - Rome, 4 May 1892), and had issue:
        • Donna Guendalina, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 26 November 1878 - Genoa, 25 November 1951), married in Rome on 25 November 1897 Marquess Antonio Malvezzi-Campeggi (Bologna, 13 August 1870 - Bologna, 8 April 1900)
        • Donna Guglielma, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Villa La Quiete, Foligno, 4 July 1881 - Rome, 2 May 1973), married at the Villa La Quiete, Fooling, on 24 October 1900 Pompeo, Count of Campello (Rome, 22 December 1874 - Campello, 6 October 1927)
        • Donna Eleonora, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 25 April 1885 - Rome, 3 March 1959), unmarried and without issue
        • Don Francesco Antonio Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Villa La Quiete, Foligno, 20 October 1886 - Rome, 7 June 1955), Prince of Piombino, Duke of Sora, etc, married in Rome on 20 February 1908 Nicoletta Prinetti-Castelletti (Rome, 19 March 1891 - Rome, 2 March 1931), and had issue
        • Donna Teresa, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 24 January 1889 - Rome, 1 May 1969), married firstly in Rome on 4 April 1910 Sigismundo Giustiniani-Bandini (Rome, 20 June 1886 - Abbadia di Fiatsra, 4 November 1918), Viscount Kynnaird, Duke of Mondragone, and married secondly in Florence on 25 August 1921 Franz Ambro de Adamocz (Castel Gandolfo, 26 August 1890 - Rome, 19??)
      • Don Luigi Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 21 June 1857 - Rome, 22 July 1928), married in Florence on 24 October 1881 Isabella Rondinelli-Vitelli, Marchioness of Bucine (Florence, 17 October 1861 - Rome, 23 October 1957), and had issue:
        • Don Andrea, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Rome, 3 February 1884 - Montreux, 10 December 1948), Marquess of Bucine, married firstly in Washington, Columbia, 25 October 1916 annulled in 1924 Margaret Preston Draper (Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 18 March 1891 - Washington, Columbia, 1973), without issue, and married secondly in Abbazia on 4 December 1924 Alice Blanceflor Bildt (Siena, 1 September 1891 - Rome, 9 June 1972), without issue
        • Don Paolo, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Rome, 19 December 1886 - Fontesegale, 16 April 1960), Marquess of Bucine, married in Florence on 17 April 1910 Stefania Bourbon del Monte of the Marquesses of the Monte Santa Maria (Florence, 15 January 1888 - Florence, 4 May 1984), and had issue:
          • Don Giovanni Battista Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 25 March 1911 - Florence, 30 January 1964), Marquess of Bucine, married in Rome on 11 June 1932 his second cousin Giulia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 6 March 1914 - Rome, 19 May 1996), and had issue:
            • Donna Nicoletta, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Rome, 13 April 1933 - 2024), married in Rome on 6 June 1954 and divorced in 1971 Raimondo, Marquess Marini-Clarelli (Rome, 18 October 1925 - ?)
            • Don Luigi, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Rome, 20 July 1934 - 26 January 2016), Marquess of Bucine, married in Rome on 29 April 1965 Orietta Orefici (? - 1 July 2017), without issue
          • Donna Imperia Maria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 25 June 1912 - Bagnoregio, near Viterbo, 5 February 2003), married in Villa Pozzo, Santa Maria a Monte, 27 October 1938 Giuseppe of the Marquesses Gavotti (Turin, 23 November 1914 - Rome, 31 May 1988)
          • Donna Ippolita Maria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 25 July 1916 - Trevinano, 28 July 2001), married in Schivanoia on 20 November 1947 Antonio, Count Naselli, of the Dukes of Gela (Palermo, 6 December 1903 - Acquapendente, 28 July 1961)
          • Don Guido Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 12 November 1917 - Fontesegale, 21 April 2008), married in Pernumia on 19 February 1944 and divorced Bonacolsa Marchioness and Countess Bonacossi (Padua, 5 November 1921 - 8 May 1998), and had issue:
            • Don Andrea, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 26 November 1944), Marquess of Bucine, married in Florence on 31 October 1973 Laura Mazzuoli, and had issue:
              • Don Francesco Guido Marino, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 15 December 1977), married in Trani on 2 September 2006 Maria Giovanna Porro (Rome, 1982), and had issue:
                • Donna Sibilla, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 2008)
                • Donna Stefania, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (2011)
                • Don Guidandrea, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (2015)
          • Donna Jumara Costanza Maria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 25 May 1919 - 20 July 2012), married in Florence on 22 February 1940 Franco Zeloni (Maslianico, 29 December 1910 - Florence, 23 February 1985)
          • Donna Agnese, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 5 February 1921 - Boncompagni Castel, Trevinano di Acquapendente, near Viterbo, 25 August 2003), married in Schivanoia Citerna, 12 November 1945 Rodolfo Borgianni (Florence, 24 May 1920 - Florence, 5 November 1968)
          • Don Arimberto, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 22 March 1925 - 22 August 2006), married firstly in Padua on 10 January 1946 and annulled in 1971 Maria Silvia Ancillotto (Santa Lucia di Piave, 23 December 1926 - ?), and had issue, and married secondly in Florence on 26 February 1972 Rosa Tosto (Catania, 16 July 1926 - ?), and had issue:
            • Don Paolo Francesco Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Rome, 25 October 1947 - Rome, 18 May 2007), married in Rome on 24 June 1971 Donna Angela Maria of the Dukes of Altemps (Rome, 2 April 1942 - Rome, 6 February 1993), and had issue:
              • Don Alessandrojacopo-Dragone Marco Sittico Luigi Boncompagno Arimberto Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli-Altemps (Rome, 30 April 1972), Duke of Altemps, married in Rome on 1 June 2013 Maria Carolina of the Counts Zucchini-Metelli, without issue
            • Don Lodovico, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli, unmarried and without issue
        • Don Lodovico, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 16 February 1890 - Florence, 23 February 1966), unmarried and without issue
        • Don Baldassarre, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Rome, 30 October 1900 - Panicale, 29 April 1973), married firstly in Rome on 12 January 1927 and divorced in 1949 Alba Gath (Florence, 18 May 1897 - Florence, 22 November 1983), without issue, and married secondly in Florence in December 1949 Nobila Anna Cocchi (Florence, 30 January 1907 - Florence, 15 January 1979), without issue
      • Donna Guendolina, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 17 July 1859 - 19 December 1942), married in Rome on 23 April 1879 Giovanni Battista, Marquess Cattaneo della Votta (? - 2 September 1897)
      • Donna Maria Maddalena, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 23 April 1861 - 11 April 1948), unmarried and without issue
      • Don Giuseppe Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 22 March 1865 - Rome, 9 May 1930), married in Rome on 15 January 1891 Arduina San Martino Valperga of the Counts of Torre di Bairo (Turin, 14 October 1868 - Rome, 25 May 1963), and had issue:
        • Donna Rosalia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 26 February 1893 - Rome, 27 February 1977), married in Rome on 26 December 1918 Georgios Skouses (Athens, 24 January 1891 - Lausanne, 25 July 1973)
        • Don Boncompagno, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 25 October 1896 - New York, New York County, New York, 3 May 1988), married firstly in Milan on 14 June 1917 and divorced in 1947 Donna Carla Borromeo of the Marquesses and Princes of Angera (Milan, 22 June 1897 - Milan, 15 December 1987), and had issue, and married secondly in Reno, Reno County, Nevada, on 29 November 1947 Selma Borger (Vienna, 25 September 1901 - New York, New York County, New York, 29 July 1989), without issue:
          • Donna Anna, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (9 October 1923 - 30 December 1946), unmarried and without issue
      • Donna Maria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 10 March 1869 - Rome, 9 January 1946), married in Rome, 24 October 1888 Francesco, Duke Caffarelli, Duke of Assergi (Rome, 2 February 1865 - Rome, 28 December 1962)
    • Donna Maria Carolina, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (3 May 1834 - 10 March 1910), married on 1/4 October 1854 Francesco Cesare, Prince Pallavicini, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire Rospigliosi, Prince of Gallicano, Marquess of Colonna, etc (2 March 1828 - 14 January 1887), and had issue
    • Donna Maria Filomena, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (? - 28 February 1836)
    • Donna Giulia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (11 February 1839 - 20 November 1897), married on 21 September 1857 her cousin and first cousin Don Marco Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Ottoboni (21 April 1832 - 29 March 1909), 7th Duke of Fiano, and had issue
    • Donna Livia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (8 September 1841 - 10 August 1857)
    • Don Ignazio, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (27 May 1845 - 28 October 1913), Prince of Vanossa, married on 27 June 1868 Teresa of the Counts Mariscotti, without issue
    • Donna Lavinia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (22 January 1854 - 1 December 1938), married on 5 May 1878 Rinaldo Taverna, Count of Landriano (? - 6 May 1913)
  • Donna Costanza, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (11 December 1811 - 7 August 1851), married on 14 February 1931 her cousin Don Alessandro Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Ottoboni (20 January 1805 - 29 August 1837), 6th Duke of Fiano, and had issue
  • Donna Maria Ippolita, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (21 September 1813 - 9 December 1892), married on 18 May 1834 Don Mario Massimo, Duke of Rignano (? - 23 May 1873)
  • Don Ignazio, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (5 November 1815 - 2 February 1823)
  • Don Baldassarre, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 10 May 1821 - 13 April 1894), unmarried and without issue
• Don Giuseppi, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (11 October 1774 - 24 August 1849), married Maria Celeste di Gervasi (? - 14 January 1817), and had issue:
  • Don Gaetano, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (14 November 1808 - 31 December 1829), unmarried and without issue
  • Donna Laura, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (25 November 1810 - c. 1863), married ..., Count Franzeschi
  • Donna Maria Imperia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (3 June 1812 - ?), married ..., Count San Giorgio
  • Donna Natalia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (24 December 1815 - 1868), unmarried and without issue

References

• Mauro Carrara, Signori e principi di Piombino, Bandecchi & Vivaldi, Pontedera 1996.