Anna Colonna
| Anna Colonna | |
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| Successor |
Olimpia Giustiniani By marriage to her son Maffeo Barberini |
| Husband | Taddeo Barberini |
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| Father | Filippo I Colonna |
| Mother | Lucrezia Tomacelli |
| Born | 1601 Paliano |
| Died | 1658 Rome |
Anna Colonna (1601–1658) was an Italian noblewoman of the Colonna and Barberini families. She was also the Princess of Paliano.
Colonna was born in 1601; the daughter of Filippo Colonna, Prince of Paliano, and Lucrezia Tomacelli, of Galatro, and was thus Princess of Paliano.
On 14 October 1627, at age 26, she married Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina (later Prefect of Rome) who was two years her junior. The marriage was celebrated by Barberini's uncle, Pope Urban VIII at Castel Gandolfo. At the castle, a coat of arms was erected which merged the heraldic bees of the Barberini with the single column of the Colonna.
As the wife of the secular patriarch of the pope's family in Rome, Colonna became one of the most powerful women in the city and in the surrounding papal states. This is reflected in the personal wealth she and Barberini amassed during Urban's reign; a pontificate known for its unabashed nepotism. Her status was also made clear by the manner in which she was treated by her peers. In 1634, when crowds was assembled for a tournament at the Piazza Navona, her place is described in the following terms:
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