Prince of Lampedusa was a title in the Peerage of Sicily. It was created in 1667 for the aristocrat Giulio Tomasi, 2nd Duke of Palma.[1]
| Principality of Lampedusa | |
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| Creation date | 13 August 1667 |
| Created by | Charles II of Sicily |
| Peerage | Peerage of Sicily |
| First holder | Giulio Tomasi, 2nd Duke of Palma |
| Last holder | Pietro Tomasi, 12th Prince of Lampedusa |
| Subsidiary titles | Duke of Palma Baron of Montechiaro Baron of Torretta Grandee of Spain, First Class |
| Seat(s) | Palazzo Lampedusa alla Marina |
| Former seat(s) | Palazzo Lampedusa |
| Motto | spes mea in deo est ("My hope lies in God") |
The principality comprehended the islands of Lampedusa and Linosa; in the 1840s, the Tomasi family sold the islands to the State.
The Palazzo Lampedusa in Palermo was badly damaged during the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943. The famous Italian novelist Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was the last to hold officially the title of prince before the end of the Kingdom of Italy. About a decade later, shortly before he died, he wrote The Leopard, a novel based in part on the life of his great-grandfather, Don Giulio. During the same period in which he was writing The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi adopted his own distant cousin Gioacchino Lanza, thereafter known as Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, but the latter did not use the extinct noble title.
Princes of Lampedusa (1667)
edit- Don Giulio Tomasi, 1st Prince of Lampedusa (1614–1669)
- Don Ferdinando Tomasi, 2nd Prince of Lampedusa (1651–1672)
- Don Giulio II Tomasi, 3rd Prince of Lampedusa (1672–1698)
- Don Ferdinando II Maria Tomasi, 4th Prince of Lampedusa (1697–1775)
- Don Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, 5th Prince of Lampedusa (1717–1792
- Don Giulio III Maria Tomasi, 6th Prince of Lampedusa (1743–1812)
- Don Giuseppe Tomasi, 7th Prince of Lampedusa (1767–1831)
- Don Giulio Fabrizio Tomasi, 8th Prince of Lampedusa (1813–1885)
- Don Giuseppe Tomasi, 9th Prince of Lampedusa (1838–1908)
- Don Giulio Tomasi, 10th Prince of Lampedusa (1868–1934)
- Don Giuseppe Tomasi, 11th Prince of Lampedusa (1896–1957)
- Don Pietro Tomasi, 12th Prince of Lampedusa (1863–1962)
References
edit- ^ La Famiglia " Tomasi di Lampedusa" (in Italian). Salvatore Preti. 5 January 2016.