County of Montone

Vitelli family coat of arms

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The County of Montone was a noble fiefdom in Italy, formed of the town of Montone and its territory. That territory was turned into a county by Antipope John XXIII on 28 August 1414 and granted by him to Braccio da Montone, a condottiero. Pope Martin V refounded it and on Braccio's death in 1424 confirmed it to Braccio's son . It was under the jurisdiction of the Papal States until 1519, when pope Leo X granted it to Vitello Vitelli, a member of the Vitelli family of Città di Castello. That family held it until 1573 and then from 1598 to 1646, when their line went extinct.

List of counts[]

• Braccio da Montone (1414-1424)
• Carlo da Montone (1424-?)
• Alessandro Vitelli (? - 1461)
• Paolo Vitelli (1461-1499)
• Vitellozzo Vitelli (1499-1503)
• Vitello Vitelli (1519-28)^[1]
• Chiappino II Vitelli (1530-34)^[1]
• Camillo II Vitelli (1534-40)^[1]
• Alessandro Vitelli (1540-44)^[1]
• Camillo II Vitelli and Alessandro Vitelli (1544-46)^[1]
• Angela de' Rossi (wife of Alessandro) (1546-47)^[1]
• Camillo II Vitelli (1547-50)^[1]
• Camillo II Vitelli and Ferrante Vitelli (1550-58)^[1]
• Vitellozzo Vitelli (1558-66)^[1]
• Ferrante Vitelli (1566-67)^[1]
• Ferrante Vitelli and Vincenzo Vitelli (1567-72)^[1]
• Paolo II Vitelli and Chiappino II Vitelli (1572-73)^[1]
• Direct papal jurisdiction (1573-1598)
• Virginia Savelli Vitelli, wife of Giovanni Vincenzo Vitelli (1598-1634)^[1]
• Chiappino III Vitelli (1634-46)^[1]

Chiappino III died without issue in 1646 and the county was absorbed into the Papal States, never to be awarded again.

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  Portrait of Nicclo Vitelli by Luca Signorelli 1492-1496

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  Portrait of Ritratto di Camillo Vitelli by Luca Signorelli (c. 1493-1496)

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  Vitellozzo Vitelli, by Luca Signorelli.

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  Portrait of Paolo Vitelli

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  Portrait of Alexander Vitelli

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• https://web.archive.org/web/20120207030737/http://www.comunemontone.it/storia-e-territorio-del-comune.htm