Hesperidum munus (Latin for 'Gift of the Hesperides')
Non totus iaceo (Latin for 'I never completely lie still')
The House of Gualterio (in the past, also Gualtieri) is an Italian aristocratic family, with its first documented roots in the 12th century and links to France and the Stuarts. The Gualterio family (Gualterio di Corgnolo) has spawned various aristocratic titles including the extant Marquis of Corgnolo (1723) and, under the Jacobite peerage, Earl of Dundee (1705).[1] The present head and heir to the titles is Luigi Gualterio (b. 1955).[2]
History
The Gualterio family bore the surname Gualterini or Gualcherini when Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, around 975, appointed it among the hundred consul families for the government of Orvieto.[3]
In addition to the noble status in Orvieto (1067), where many members of the family held roles such as gonfaloniere, governatore and Signore Sette, the family was co-opted in the nobility of Viterbo (1566), Rome (1518), Fabriano (1686), Todi (1689), Camerino (1691), Loreto (1694) and San Marino (1704).[4][5]
Members of the family
Agnese Gualterio, founded in 1325 with her brother Vanne, the jus patronatus of St. John the Baptist, St. John the Evangelist and St. Catherine in the church of St. Biagio in Orvieto.[6]
Raffaele Gualterio, known as "il Moro", who gave his name to the Torre del Moro in Orvieto, citizen of the Roman Senate (1529), Pope Julius III's ambassador to Sebastian of Portugal (by whom he was admitted in the Order of Christ).[7]
Sebastiano Gualterio (1513–1566), Bishop of Viterbo (1551–1566), Nuncio to France (1554–1556 and 1560–1561) and delegate to the Council of Trent (1562).[8]
^Corp. E. (2003). The Stuart Court in Rome: The Legacy of Exile 72, passim; Corp, E. (2009). The Jacobites at Urbino: An Exiled Court in Transition 55 et passim.
^The fiefs of Cumia Superiore and Cumia Inferiore in Sicily were occupied by Austrian troops, with whom the Gualterio refused to negotiate. British Library, Add MS 20379.
^Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (1902). Calendar of the Stuart papers belonging to His Majesty the king 204, 25 January 1706.