ALDOBRANDESCHI FAMILY

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The 'Aldobrandeschi' were an Italian noble family from southern Tuscany.
Of probabale Lombard origin[1], they appear in history as the counts of Santa Fiora in the late 8th/early 9th centuries, although a Ghidelmo Aldobrandeschi is mentioned as lord of Roselle as early as 729. The possession extended to what are now southern Tuscany and northern Lazio regions of Italy.
The most famous members were Guglielmo Aldobrandeschi, who lived in the 13th century and is cited by Dante Alighieri as the ''Gran Tosco'' ("Grand Tuscan"), and Pope Gregory VII.