Vitelleschi (noble family)

Vitelleschi is a noble Italian family from Foligno and Corneto. They are descended from the powerful family of Vitelli from Città di Castello, Umbria.^[1] The family established itself in Rome in the sixteenth century. In 1600, Virginia Vitelleschi married Girolamo Nobili di Rieti, giving rise to the family of Nobili-Vitelleschi.^[2]

The Vitelleschi family crest

Nobili Vitelleschi castle in Labro, Lazio

Notable members of the family

• Giovanni Maria Vitelleschi (1390–1440), cardinal and leader
• Bartolomeo Vitelleschi [it] (1410–1463), bishop
• Muzio Vitelleschi (1563–1645), Superior General of the Society of Jesus from 1615 until his death
• Sulpizia Vitelleschi (1635–1684), Italian heiress
• Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi [it] (1818–1875), cardinal
• Francesco Vitelleschi Nobili [it] (1829–1906), senator

Family properties

• Palazzo Vitelleschi [it] in Tarquinia
• Palazzo Nobili Vitelleschi [it] in Labro
• Palazzo Verospi Vitelleschi [it] in Roma

Notes

1. di Crollalanza, Giovan Battista (1886). Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili o notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti (in Italian) (Vol. 3 ed.). Bologna: A. Forni.
2. "La Nostra Storia". castellodilabro.com.

Bibliography

• di Crollalanza, Giovan Battista (1886). Dizionario storico blasonico delle famiglie nobili o notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti (Vol.3 ed.). Bologna: A. Forni.