Paula (Cesarini) Adelmare (abt. 1490)

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Biography

Evidence of Paula has not been found in Italian records yet, such as the work of Mauro who is useful for her husband's family. However in England her descendants believed her to be a member of the very famous Cesarini family from Rome who eventually became linked with the Dukedom of Milan.

Frances Elizabeth Cottrell-Dormer, a descendant of the Adelmare or Caesar family of England, wrote an account which was reproduced in various 19th century books.^[1] Though it repeats some legendary looking information, she says that the "most certain account of the family of Caesar Adelmare is at Rousham. It is a Latin MS. written by Nicholas Maurus, of Treviso, 1598". She reported:

"The Adelmary, Adelmari, or Adimari, came from Florence, but in the wars of the Guelphs and Gibelines they, being of the Guelphic party, withdrew, in the reign of Frederic II., to Treviso, where they were settled about A.D. 1240, and remained some 300 years. Adelmarius, the son of John, is the first living there in 1270. From him descended Mark, who died in 1340; a statesman and Ambassador to the Emperor. His son, Nicholas, was a lawyer, and Ambassador to Louis the Bavarian, and afterwards to the Republic of Venice, from which he recovered property of Treviso usurped by Venice. He died 1346. His son, Thadeus, was a great physician and patriot, and was made first Physician to Pope Nicholas. He left all his fortune to the Hospital of St. Mary, at Treviso and for the education of poor youths in theology. The date of his will is 1454. Another Thadeus was legate from Treviso to the Emperor Maximilian, at Padua."

"Peter Maria, son of Bonfrank, grandson of the second Nicholas, was many years Judge at Treviso, and also Ambassador to the Emperor Maximilian; he married Paula, daughter and heir of John de Paulo Cesarino, of the ducal family of Caesar. Their 2nd son, Caesar, having taken a degree in medicine, came to England, and was appointed Physician to Mary I., and afterwards to Elizabeth. This Queen having advised him to marry an Englishwoman, he married Margaret, daughter of Martin Perrin, Treasurer in Ireland."

Sources

1. ↑ Account of Rousham, Oxfordshire p.26

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