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The Simonetti family is an Italian noble family with origins in Tuscany. During the 12th Century different branches in Florence, Lucca, Pistoia and Pescia developed. Other famous branches of this family were established in Jesi, Milan and Bologna. Members of this family have held different titles since the Middle Ages, among them: ''Lords of Jesi'', ''Princes of Musone'', ''marquis'' in the kingdom of Naples and Rome, ''counts'' in the kingdom of Italy and Bologna, senators of Rome and the Kingdom of Italy.〔Dizionario Storico-Blasonico V. II Crollalanza, p. 534, 535〕〔''Spreti, Vittorio''- Enciclopedia Storico-Nobiliare Italiana, 1928, p. 328, 329〕〔''Amayden, Theodoro'' - La storia delle famiglie romane, Volumes 1-2, p. 194〕 The Simonetti also held positions in the Republic of Florence and the Republic of Lucca, among them priori of the signoria, gonfaloniere, captains, members of the council of the elders and the leadership of the Guelph party.〔''Mecatti, Giuseppe Maria'' - Storia Genealogica della Nobilita e cittadinanza di Firenze, p. 387〕〔''Bucker, Gene A.'' - Florentine Politics and Society 1343-1378 Note: Used Siminetti for Simonetti〕〔''Louis Green'', Castruccio Castracani: A study on the Origins and Character of a Fourteenth-Century Italian Despotism (Oxford, 1986) Simonetti of Lucca - 27n., 86, 92n., 96n., 100, 197 and 194n.〕 ==Origin of the family== According to Eugenio Gamurrini and Ludovico Jacobilli the Simonetti from Jesi, Lucca, Florence, Osimo, Cingoli, Terni and Milan had a single origin. Gamurrini linked the Florentine branch of the family to medieval Lucca but could not find the common ancestor that linked the Simonetti from Tuscany to the Simonetti from Jesi. He pointed to other facts that indicated the connection and the earlier research done by Jacobilli. According to Jacobilli the Simonetti branches were all descendants of a single line of Lombard barons that held fiefs in central Italy.〔''Jacobilli, Ludovico'' Bibliotheca Umbriae〕 Gamurrini in his ''Istoria genealogica delle famiglie nobili Toscane et Umbre'' studied manuscripts that linked the Simonetti of Milan, Lucca and Florence to Teuprando, a Lombard lord living in Lucca and a descendant of Aripert I, King of the Lombards (see Bavarian Dynasty). Other noble families from Lucca also recognized Teuprando as their ancestor, including the Rolandinghi, Soffredinghi, and Opezinghi. All these families held control of vast areas in the Garfagnana region and held castles around the Lombard city of Barga.〔''Eugenio Gamurrini'', Istoria genealogica delle famiglie nobili Toscane et Umbre (Firenze 1671) see ''Simonetti di Terni''〕 Other historians such as Lord Vernon were more conservative in their studies and researched documentation up to the beginning of the 13th century, still older documentation survived including documents related to ''Ranerio Simonecti'' (Raniero Simonetti), a Florentine nobleman who was alive in 1188〔''La Carte della Propositura di S. Stefano di Prato'' - INSTRUMENTUM LAUDI 1188 giugno 27, Firenze pg 437〕 and who was also mentioned by E. Gamurrini. Vernon also studied the family’s lordship of parts of the Val d’ Elsa and the castle of Colle.〔''U.Bosco'' - Encyclopedia Dantesca - see ''Sannella'' p. 6 and p. 7〕 According to Villani the family was forced to renounce all its titles in Florence and was reduced to ''popolani'' (common citizens). The same happened in Lucca, by the beginning of the 15th century they had lost all prerogatives of nobility in Lucca and Florence, however were still recognized as patricians. Dante mentions the family by ''della Sannella'', one of the ancient names of the family.〔 Dante placed the Simonetti family in Paradiso XVI, among the ancient noble families of Florence and Cacciaguida. In ''Canto'' XVI of ''Paradiso'', Dante says:
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