Giovan Battista Ludovisi

Giovan Battista Ludovisi (John Baptist Ludovisi) (1647 - 24 August 1699) was son and heir of Niccolò I Ludovisi and his third wife Costanza Pamphili, sister of Vatican cardinal Camillo Pamphili.

Giovan inherited his parent's domains the Ludovisi de Candia-Pamphili, including the Principality of Piombino on 1 September 1665. In 1690 he sold the Duchy of Fiano to the Ottoboni family of Venice. He was viceroy in India. [1]

Giovan married in 1669 to Mary of the House of Montcada, daughter of William Ramon de Moncada, Marquis of Aytona. Mary died in Rome in 1694 without leaving children. In 1697 Giovan married a second time with Anna Furnari dei Notarbartolo, this marriage produced one son, Nicholo born in 1700, who succeeded his father but renounced to become a priest, just after having a kid born out of wedlock with a parish-lady.

After his death, his young son Nicholo by the name Niccolò II Ludovisi was granted the principality under the Regency of Giovan's sister Olimpia succeeded as Princess of Piombino; on her sadden death her younger sister Ippolita succeeded, she left surviving children.