Rome
The Papal States were the pope’s temporal lands in central Italy, founded on the Donation of Pepin in 756. In 1337 Benedict XII resided at Avignon while the Orsini and Colonna contested Rome.
The tribune Cola di Rienzo briefly seized power in Rome in 1347; Gregory XI returned the papal court there in 1377. Charles V’s troops sacked the city in 1527. France established a Roman Republic in 1798, and Napoleon annexed Rome in 1809; the Congress of Vienna restored the Italian lands to Pius VII in 1815.
Characters
- Ottobuono de' Fieschi, Pope Adrian V
- Jacques Fournier, Pope Benedict XII
- Pope Benedict XI
- Bertoldo Orsini
- Bertoldo Orsini
- Bobone di Pietro
- Pope Boniface VIII
- Pope Callixtus II
- Pope Celestine III
- Bertrand de Got, Pope Clement V
- Francesco Petrarca
- Gentile I Orsini
- Gerald Odonis
- Giacoma Orsini
- Giovanni Giangaetano Orsini
- Giordano Orsini
- Guillaume Court
- Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Sinibaldo Fieschi, Pope Innocent IV
- Jean-Raymond de Comminges
- Pope John XXII
- Manuele Fieschi
- Matteo Orsini
- Matteo Rosso Orsini
- Matteo Orsini (di Monte)
- Napoleone Orsini
- Nicola Caetani, Count of Fondi
- Pope Nicholas III
- Onorato I Caetani
- Orso Orsini
- Orso di Bobone
- Rinaldo della Torre, called Passerino
- Pietro Bobone
- Pietro II Caetani
- Rinaldo Orsini
- Roffredo I Caetani
- Roffredo II Caetani
- Roffredo III Caetani
- Simone Martini
- Hugues Roger