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Tusculum had in this time several notable guests: Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Empress Agnes in 1046, the Pope Eugene III from 1149, Louis VII of France and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1149, Frederick Barbarossa and the English Pope Adrian IV in 1155.
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Later, at King Roger's court in Potenza, she learnt of the death of her uncle Raymond ; this appears to have forced a change of plans, for instead of returning to France from Marseilles, they instead sought the Pope in Tusculum, where he had been driven five months before by a Roman revolt.
By the time the Antipope Christopher ( 903 – 904 ) seized the chair of Saint Peter by force, circumstances had changed at Rome, with the rise of the magister militum Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, who had been stationed at Rome by the retreating emperor Louis the Blind in 902.
His mother's ancestors had moved from Italy to North Africa: they belonged to the gens Fulvia, an Italian patrician family that originated in Tusculum.
A former pope, Benedict IX, residing at Tusculum, had been watching the situation in Rome intently, and had decided that now was his opportunity to reclaim what was his.
Cato the Elder was born in Tusculum, a municipal town of Latium, to which his ancestors had belonged for some generations.
Camillus belonged to the lineage of the Furii, whose origin had been in the Latin city of Tusculum.
Although this city had been a bitter enemy of the Romans in the 490s BC, after both Volsci and Aequi began to wage war against Rome, Tusculum joined Rome, unlike most Latin cities.
In 62 BC or later he married Fulvia of Tusculum, daughter of Sempronia the formidable principal heiress of the plebeian high noble family of Semproni Tuditani, which had died out in the male line with her father ( 70s BC ).
Ancient authors quoted by Servius Honoratus and Macrobius recorded that Salii had existed at Tibur, Tusculum and Veii even before their creation in Rome.
History leaves us in darkness as to the origin of the Furia gens ; but, from sepulchral inscriptions found at Tusculum, we see that the name Furius was very common at that place, and hence it is generally inferred that the Furia gens, like the Fulvia, had come from Tusculum.
He had splendid gardens outside the city of Rome, as well as villas around Tusculum and Neapolis.
Then in 925 Theophylact of Tusculum and Alberic I of Spoleto also died ; this meant that within the course of a year, three of Pope John ’ s key supporters had died, leaving John dangerously exposed to the ambitions of Theophylact ’ s daughter, Marozia, who, it was said, resented John ’ s alleged affair with her mother Theodora.
Quakers, who had migrated to the region from Pennsylvania in the 1790s, formed the Manumission Society of Tennessee in 1814. Notable supporters included Presbyterian clergyman Samuel Doak, Tusculum College cofounder Hezekiah Balch, and Maryville College president Isaac Anderson.
From Gregory, the powerful Count of Tusculum, father of Popes Benedict VIII and John XIX, Nilus obtained the site, which had been a Roman villa, where among the ruins there remained a low edifice of opus quadratum that had been a sepulchral monument but had been converted to a Christian oratory in the fourth century.
Tusculum and time
Revolutionary War veteran, and state legislator, Col. Joseph Hardin made Greene County his home for a period of time, serving as justice of the peace and as one of the original trustees of Tusculum ( then Greeneville ) college.
An incomplete fragment of an inscription recorded by Cato the Elder tells us that at one time the league included Tusculum, Aricia, Lanuvium, Lavinium, Cora, Tibur, Pometia and Ardea.
* 1927 Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ) formally accredits Tusculum for the first time.
He was at one time possessed of considerable wealth, and owned a villa at Tusculum which he was obliged to hand over to his creditors.
They attacked Tusculum again, and camped near Algidus Mons ; at the same time, a Sabinian army moved against Rome.
Tusculum and several
Libraries were amenities suited to a villa, such as Cicero's at Tusculum, Maecenas's several villas, or Pliny the Younger's, all described in surviving letters.
Tusculum and III
* 1149 – Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum.
According to tradition, the Colonna are a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter ( 1099 – 1151 ) son of Gregory III, called Peter " de Columna " from his property, the Columna Castle, in Colonna, Alban Hills.
Practically nothing is recorded of Pope Anastasius III, his pontificate falling in the period when Rome and the Papacy were in the power of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, and his wife Theodora, who approved Anastasius III's candidacy.
Benedict was born the son of Alberic III, Count of Tusculum, and was a nephew of Pope Benedict VIII and Pope John XIX.
* February 6 – After leading the revolt against Emperor Otto III and expelling the Crescentii, Gregory I, Count of Tusculum is named " Head of the Republic "
He was either murdered by Christopher, who was in turn executed by Pope Sergius III ( 904 – 911 ) in 904, or, more likely, was ordered to be strangled during the beginning of Sergius ’ pontificate, either on the orders of Sergius himself, or by the direction of the sacri palatii vestararius, Theophylact, Count of Tusculum.
The rebellious citizens, headed by Count Gregory I of Tusculum, besieged Otto III in his palace on the Palatine Hill and then drove him from the city.
He was consecrated as Archbishop in 905 by Pope Sergius III, another clerical candidate of the Counts of Tusculum.
* Gregory III, Count of Tusculum, r. 1058-1108
In 1538, Pope Paul III conferred the title of " Civitas " to Frascati, with the name " Tusculum Novum ".
Tusculum and Holy
In the High Middle Ages, there were three churches in Tusculum: St. Saviour and Holy Trinity " in civitate ", and St. Thomas on the acropolis.
* 1167-Battle of Monte Porzio against Holy Roman Emperor, Tusculum and Albano Laziale
Tusculum and Roman
Sergius was the son of Benedictus, and traditionally was believed descended from a noble Roman family, although it has been speculated that he was in fact related to the family of Theophylact, Count of Tusculum.
Marcus Porcius Cato ( 234 BC, Tusculum – 149 BC ) was a Roman statesman, commonly referred to as Censorius ( the Censor ), Sapiens ( the Wise ), Priscus ( the Ancient ), or Major, Cato the Elder, or Cato the Censor, to distinguish him from his great-grandson, Cato the Younger.
In Italian and Roman mythology, Telegonus became known as the founder of Tusculum, a city just to the south-east of Rome, and sometimes also as the founder of Praeneste, a city in the same region ( modern Palestrina ).
Ancient Roman poets regularly used phrases such as " walls of Telegonus " ( e. g. Propertius 2. 32 ) or " Circaean walls " to refer to Tusculum.
She was the daughter of the Roman consul Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, and of Theodora, the real power in Rome, whom Liutprand of Cremona characterized as a " shameless whore ... exercised power on the Roman citizenry like a man.
Because many war prisoners were of Tusculum, Camillus headed the romans thither and the city was bloodlessly adjoined with the Romans whereas its citizens were endowed with fully Roman rights.
After the death of Pope Lando in 914, a faction of the Roman nobility, headed by Theophylact of Tusculum, summoned John to Rome to assume the vacant papal chair.
Tusculum is a ruined Roman city in the Alban Hills, in the Latium region of Italy.
Tusculum is one of the largest Roman cities in Alban Hills.
Several of the chief Roman families were of Tusculan origin, e. g. the gentes Mamilia, Fulvia, Fonteia, Juventia, Oppia, Coruncania, Quinctia, Rabiria, Javonelia, Cordia, Manlia, Furia and Porcia ; to the latter belonged Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder, who was born at Tusculum in 234 BC.
Notwithstanding this, and the fact that a special college of Roman equites was formed to take charge of the cults of the gods at Tusculum, and especially of the Dioscuri, the citizens resident there were neither numerous nor men of distinction.
In 45 BC Cicero wrote a series of books in his Roman villa in Tusculum, the Tusculanae Quaestiones.
The last archeological evidence of Roman Tusculum is a bronze tablet of 406 AD commemorating Anicius Probus Consul and his sister Anicia.
In 1167 the Roman communal army attacked Tusculum ( Battle of Monte Porzio ), but it was defeated by the Emperor-allied army, headed by Christian I, Archbishop of Mainz ; in the summer of the same year, however, a plague decimated the imperial army and Frederick Barbarossa was forced to get back to Germany.
When in 1183 the Roman army again attacked Tusculum, Barbarossa sent a new contingent of troops to its defence.
Roger of Hoveden wrote " lapis supra lapidem non remansit " ( not a stone upon a stone remained ), indeed the Roman Commune's army took away the stones of the walls of Tusculum as spoils of war in Rome.
In 1890 Thomas Ashby arrived to Rome as Director of " British School in Rome ": he was an expert of ancient monuments topography and studied the Tusculum monuments, reporting the results in The Roman Campagna in Classical Times published in London in 1927.
The original Tusculum was a city near Rome, Italy and home to Roman scholar and philosopher Cicero, who, along with others, identified the civic virtues that form the basis of civic republican tradition, which emphasizes citizens working together to form good societies that in turn foster individuals of good character.
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