Matteo Rosso Orsini
Matteo Rosso Orsini (born 1178, died 1246) - Roman politician and aristocrat, father of Pope Nicholas III (1277-1280). He was the opponent of Emperor Frederick II. In 1241 Pope Gregory IX appointed him a senator of Rome. In the wake of his death, he exercised almost dictatorial power in the Eternal City. Brutally intervened in the papal election of 1241, closing the cardinals in the Septizonium building and restricting them gradually to the delivery of food. Pope Celestine IV then appointed him for excommunication. In 1243 he defeated the troops of Emperor Frederick II. He also expanded the domains of the Orsini family around Rome, mostly at the expense of their Colonna rivals.
Senator Orsini was a friend of St. Francis of Assisi and belonged to the secular branch of his Order (the so-called tertiary).
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