Annibaldi family

The Annibaldi were a powerful baronial family of Rome and the Lazio in the Middle Ages.

They began to rise to prominence in the 13th century with the favour of Popes Gregory IX and Alexander IV, in the vacuum left by the Counts of Tusculum.

The family's most outstanding figure was Riccardo Annibaldi (1210–1276),[1] who was created cardinal in 1237 by Gregory IX,[2] and bought the fief of Molara.

Other family lines than that originated with Riccardo were those of Monte Compatri, Castel Zancato and of the Colosseum.

Thomas dedicated his Catena aurea, drawn up while he was living at the Santa Sabina studium, to Annibaldo Annibaldi.