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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 580 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Italian See also:noble See also:family, which was prominent in See also:Siena (q.v.) from the beginning of the 13th See also:century onwards. In 1220 Enghelberto d'Ugo Piccolomini received the See also:fief of Montertari in Val d'Orcia from the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II. as a See also:reward for services rendered. The family acquired houses and towers in Siena and castles in the See also:republic's territory, including Montone and See also:Castiglione; the latter they sold to the See also:commune in 1321. They obtained See also:great See also:wealth through See also:trade, and established counting-houses in See also:Genoa, See also:Venice, See also:Aquileia, See also:Trieste, and in various cities of See also:France and See also:Germany. Supporters of the See also:Guelph cause in the See also:civil broils by which Siena was torn, they were driven from the See also:city in the See also:time of See also:Manfred and their houses demolished; they returned in See also:triumph after the Angevin victories, were expelled once more during the brief of See also:Charles of See also:Anjou. But through their riotous See also:political activity the Piccolomini lost their commercial See also:influence, which passed into the hands of the Florentines, although they retained their palaces, castles and about twenty fiefs, some of which were in the territory of See also:Amalfi and of great extent. Many members of the See also:house were distinguished ecclesiastics, generals and statesmen in Siena and elsewhere; two of them were popes, viz. See also:Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (See also:Pius II., q.v.) and See also:Francesco Piccolomini (Pius III., q.v.). See See also:Richter, See also:Die Piccolomini (See also:Berlin, 1874) ; A. Lisini and A. Liberati, Albero della famiglia Piccolomini (Siena, 1899) ; and articles by A. Lisini in the Miscellanea storica senese, 3rd See also:series 12, and 4th series, 17 and 189.

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Today the descendants of Enghelberto D'Ugo D'Piccolomini live in North and South America. They are professionals or regular working people, some with money. Some of them live in New York, New England, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states and in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Uruguay, Montevideo. Not all the Piccolomini of today are wealthy, a lot of them have no money.Most of them probably do not know their family history.
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