# Francesco Boncompagni Ludovisi

Don Francesco Antonio Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (20 October 1886 – 7 June 1955), Prince of Piombino (heir of a former Sovereign Italian State), Duke of Sora, etc, was an Italian politician.

## Biography

He was born at Villa La Quiete in Foligno in the princely Boncompagni family, son of Don Ugo Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 8 May 1856 - Rome, 9 November 1935), Duke of Sora, who became a priest on 27 January 1895 and did not assume the Piombino title and was married firstly in Rome on 7 October 1877 to Donna Vittoria Patrizi-Naro-Montoro (Rome, 27 April 1857 - Paris, 22 January 1883), by second wife and second cousin (Rome, 6 July 1884) Donna Laura Altieri of the Princes Altieri, Princes of Oriolo, etc (Rome, 29 January 1858 - Rome, 4 May 1892).
He was the 3rd fascist governor of Rome from 1928 to 1935. He served in the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy. He died in Rome, Italy. He was also a descendant of Pope Gregory XIII.

## Marriage and issue

He married in Rome on 20 February 1908 Nicoletta of the Marquesses Prinetti-Castelletti (Rome, 19 March 1891 - Rome, 2 March 1931), and had issue:
* Donna Laura, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 29 November 1908 - Rome, 13 February 1975), married firstly in Rome on 11 June 1925 and divorced in 1935 Annibale, Count Brandolini d'Adda (Venice, 9 January 1899 - Brusson, 21 May 1961), and married secondly in Spezia on 7 March 1936 Mario Piroddi (Lanusei, 28 December 1898 - Rome, 30 July 1965)
* Don Gregorio, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 28 June 1910 - Rome, 8 February 1988), Prince of Piombino, Duke of Sora, etc, married in Rome on 12 April 1939 Bonacossa of the Barons Aliotti (Paris, 12 December 1908 - Rome, 21 December 1995), widow of Paolo Parodi-Delfino (1909 - Rome, 1936), and had issue:
** Don Niccolò Francesco, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 21 January 1941 - 2018), Prince of Piombino, Duke of Sora, etc, married firstly in Rome on 8 July 1964, divorced in Rome on 4 February 1985 and annulled in 1989 Donna Benedetta Maria Barberini-Colonna di Sciarra of the Princes of Carbognano, Dukes of Bassanello, Montelibretti et Anticoli Corrado, etc (Rome, 3 May 1943), and had issue, married secondly in Riano, Rome, on 20 April 1992 Ludmilla Petrovna Sisova, formerly Denisovitch (Baku, 8 December 1953), without issue, and married thirdly on 27 May 2009 Rita Jenrette, née Carpenter (San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, 25 November 1949), without issue:
*** Don Francesco Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Geneva, 29 June 1965), Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Prince of Piombino, Duke of Sora, etc, married in Rome on 14 October 1995 Marchioness Violante Guerrieri-Gonzaga (Rome, 21 August 1970), and had issue:
**** Donna Lavinia Maria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 7 September 1996), married in Rome on 5 October 2024 Don Raimondo Francesco Ferdinando Alliata of the Princes of Villafranca and of the Holy Roman Empire, Dukes of Salaparuta, and Princes of Valguarnera and of Montereale, of Ucria, Trecastagni, Buccheri, Castrorao and Saponara, Princes of Bucchèri, Princes of Castrorao, Princes of Ucria, Princes of Trecastagne (Messina, 11 June 1990)
**** Don Gregorio Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 24 December 1997)
*** Don Ignazio Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Geneva, 12 February 1967), married in Rome on 19 July 1997 Gaia Bulgari (Rome, 18 November 1969), and had issue:
**** Donna Maria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (London, 23 March 1998)
**** Donna Costanza Maria, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (London, 7 February 2000), model
**** Don Jacopo Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Milan, 18 December 2003)
*** Don Bante Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Geneva, 8 October 1970), married firstly in 1997 and divorced in 1998 Cristina Crociani, without issue, and married secondly in Rome on 15 October 2005 Delphina Lapham (New York, New York County, New York, 26 April 1976), and had issue:
**** Don Ugo Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 4 January 2007)
**** Don Urbano Maria, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 19 November 2009)
* Donna Giulia, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 6 March 1914 - Rome, 19 May 1996), married in Rome on 11 June 1932 her second cousin Giovanni Battista Maria Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Rondinelli-Vitelli (Florence, 25 March 1911 - Florence, 30 January 1964), and had issue
* Don Alberico, Prince Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Rome, 14 February 1918 - Rome, 13 July 2005), Prince of Venosa, married in Rome on 7 July 1941 and divorced in 1982 Letitia of the Counts Pecci-Blunt (Paris, 6 May 1920 - Rome, 11 June 2007), and had issue:
** Donna Francesca Eleonora Cosima, Princess Boncompagni-Ludovisi (Lausanne, 6 February 1943), married in Rome on 14 April 1966 Piero, Marquess Antinori (Florence, 15 July 1938)
| Preceded byLudovico Spada Veralli Potenziani | Governor of Rome 1928–1935 | Succeeded byGiuseppe Bottai |