Counts of Tusculum

Counts of Tusculum

The counts of Tusculum were the most powerful secular noblemen in Latium, near Rome, in the present-day Italy between the 10th and 12th centuries. Several popes and an antipope during the 11th century came from their ranks. They created and perfected the political formula of noble-papacy, wherein the Pope was arranged to be elected only from the ranks of the Roman nobles. Pornocracy, the period of influence by powerful female members of the family also influenced papal history.

The counts of Tusculum remained arbiters of Roman politics and religion for more than a century. In addition to the papal influence, they held lay power through consulships and senatorial membership. Traditionally they were pro-Byzantine and anti-German in their political affiliation.

After 1049, the Tusculan Papacy came to an end with the appointment of Pope Leo IX. In fact, the Tusculan papacy was largely responsible for the reaction known as the Gregorian reform. Subsequent events (from 1062 onwards) confirmed a shift in regional politics as the counts came to side with the Holy Roman Emperors against the Rome of the reformers. In 1059 the papal-decree (Election reform) of Pope Nicholas II established new rules for the Papal election, therefore putting an end to the noble-papacy formula.

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Counts and their titles

This list is partially incomplete in the tenth century and the chronology and dates of the various countships are often uncertain. They were only counts from about 1013, lords before.

  • before 924 Theophylact I
  • until 924 Alberic I, consul son-in-law
  • 924 – 954 Alberic II, son
  • before 1013 Gregory I, son (Excellentissimus vir – Praefectus navalis)
  • until 1012 Theophylact II, son of Gregory I
  • 1012 – 1024 Romanus, (Consul et dux, senator) brother of Theophylact II and son of Gregory I
  • 1032 – 1045 Alberic III, (Imperialis palatii magister Consul et dux – Comes sacri palatii Lateranensis) brother of Theophylact II and Romanus;
  • 1024 – 1032 Theophylact III son of Alberic III
  • 1044 – 1058 Gregory II, (Consul, nobilis vir, senator Comes Tusculanensis), son of Alberic III
  • 1058 – ca 1108 Gregory III, (Comes Tusculanensis Consul, illustris) son of Gregory II
  • ca 1108 – 1126 Ptolemy I (Tolomeo I), (Consul, comes Tusculanus) son Gregory III;
  • 1126 – 1153 Ptolemy II (Tolomeo II), (Illustrissimus, dominus Consul et dux) son of Ptolemy I;
  • 1153 – ca 1167 Jonathan, (Comes de Tusculano) co-ruler with Raino son of Ptolemy II;
  • 1153 – 1179 Raino, (Nobilis vir, dominus) brother of Jonathan, co-ruler with Jonathan.

Tusculan popes

Those who were also counts in boldface.

  • John XI, son of Alberic I, pope from 931 to 935
  • John XII son of Alberic II, pope from 955 to 964
  • Benedict VII, nephew of Alberic II, pope from 974 to 983
  • Benedict VIII, son of Gregory I, pope from 1012 to 1024
  • John XIX, son of Gregory I, pope from 1024 to 1032
  • Benedict IX, son of Alberic III, pope from 1032 to 1048
  • Benedict X, son, antipope from 1058 to 1059

Other Tusculani

  • John I, son of Theophylact II (John II was Benedict X)
  • Guy, brother of Gregory II
  • Peter, brother of Gregory II
  • Octavian, brother of Gregory II

Successors

According to tradition, the successors of the Tusculum counts were the Colonna family, founded by Peter (1099–1151), son of Gregory III and called Peter "de Columna" from his fief of Colonna, east of Rome.

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