Alessandro Ruspoli, 4th Prince of Cerveteri


Alessandro, Principe Ruspoli was the 4th Prince of Cerveteri, 4th Marquis of Riano, 9th Count of Vignanello and Prince of the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Francesco Ruspoli, 3rd Prince of Cerveteri and his second wife HSH Leopoldina Gräfin von Khevenhüller-Metsch. He had for brothers, among others, Camillo Ruspoli, Duke of Sueca, and Bartolomeo Ruspoli and Khevenhüller-Metsch. His granduncle was Bartolomeo Ruspoli.
Alessandro is the ancestor of the Line I of the Princes Ruspoli.

Marriage and children

He married in Vienna, June 4, 1805, Marianna Gräfin Esterházy de Galántha, by whom he had eight children:
  • Donna Giovanna dei Principi Ruspoli, married on May 21, 1828, Pompeo, Conte di Campello.
  • Donna Virginia dei Principi Ruspoli, married on May 19, 1834, Giovanni, Conte Manassei.Giovanni Nepomucene Ruspoli, 5th Prince of Cerveteri.
  • Donna Carolina dei Principi Ruspoli, unmarried and without issue.
  • Don Amedeo dei Principi Ruspoli, unmarried and without issue.
  • Don Luigi dei Principi Ruspoli, married on November 25, 1853, Idaline Gräfin von Qualen, without issue.
  • Don Eugenio dei Principi Ruspoli, Captain of the Noble Guard. He was sent on an expedition to Lisbon on 17-1-1846 to the Patriarch Henriquez de Carvalho. Married on April 9, 1845, Pauline-Thérèse de Sicard, without issue.
  • Don Augusto dei Principi Ruspoli, Honorary Principe di Cerveteri, married at Pozsony/Pressburg, June 6, 1846, his first cousin Agnes Gräfin Esterházy de Galántha, and had three sons:
  • * Don Galeazzo dei Principi Ruspoli, married in Rome, November 26, 1885, Angelica Frascara, and had a son and a daughter:
  • ** Don Alfonso dei Principi Ruspoli, unmarried and without issue.
  • ** Donna Maria dei Principi Ruspoli, married in Rome, April 23, 1914, Giulio Barbolani dei Conti di Montauto.
  • * Don Alfonso dei Principi Ruspoli, unmarried and without issue.
  • * Don Mario dei Principi Ruspoli, married at Albano, October 25, 1879, as her first husband Costanza Boncompagni-Ludovisi-Ottoboni, and had a son and a daughter:
  • ** Augusto Ruspoli, 11th Duke of Fiano.
  • ** ''Donna Luisa dei Principi Ruspoli.''