Salviati family

Some sources trace the origins of the family to a Gottifredo who lived in Florence in the twelfth century.^[2] The first documented member of the family is Cambio di Salvi, who in 1335 was among both the gonfalonieri and the priori [it].^[2] In all, twenty members were gonfaloniere and sixty-two occupied the position of priore.^[2]

• Francesco Salviati, archbishop of Pisa, hanged from the walls of the Palazzo della Signoria in 1478 for his part in the Pazzi Conspiracy^[2]
• Giorgio Benigno Salviati (died 1520), Bosnian-born adopted member of the family, theologian and archbishop
• Jacopo Salviati (1461–1533), married Lucrezia de' Medici
• Giovanni Salviati (1490–1553), cardinal
• Maria Salviati (1499–1543), daughter of Lucrezia di Medici and Jacopo Salviati, married Giovanni delle Bande Nere, mother of Cosimo I de Medici.
• Bernardo Salviati (1508–1568), condottiere, general of the galleys of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and cardinal
• Cassandre Salviati, daughter of Bernardo Salviati, dedicatee of the Amours de Cassandre of Pierre de Ronsard^[3]
• Diane Salviati, niece of Cassandre, dedicatee of the L’hécatombe à Diane of Agrippa d'Aubigné^[3]
• Antonio Maria Salviati (1537–1602), appointed cardinal in 1583
• Alamanno Salviati, cardinal from 1727 until his death in 1733
• Gregorio Salviati, cardinal from 1777, died 1794
• Pietro Salviati, III Duke of Salviati (1887-1972), who in 1914 married in Palazzo Zilleri Maria Antoinetta Zilleri dal Verme, daughter of count Henri Zilleri dal Verme degli Obbizzi.^[4]