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Caterina Tezio Bernini

Birth
Rome, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy
Death
Aug 1673 (aged 55)
Rome, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy
Burial
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Caterina was the daughter of Paolo Tezio, a Roman, whose ancestors had enjoyed singular privileges and offices in the city from the time of Paul III, and his wife Eugenia Valeri, whose family had burial rights in S. Tomasso in Parione, in Via de Parione, near the Oratorian Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella or Chiesa Nuova.

On 15 May 1639, Caterina married Gian Lorenzo Bernini at S. Tomasso. It was an arranged marriage, under orders from Pope Urban. She bore him eleven children:

* Paolo, 1644-1646
* Pietro Filippo, 1640-1698
* Angelica, 1646
* Agnese Celeste, 1647
* Paolo Valentino, 1648-1728
* Cecilia, 1649
* Dorotea, 1650
* Maria Maddelena, 1652
* Francesca Giuditta, 1653-1658
* Francesco Giuseppe, 1654
* Stefano Domenico, 1657-1723
Caterina was the daughter of Paolo Tezio, a Roman, whose ancestors had enjoyed singular privileges and offices in the city from the time of Paul III, and his wife Eugenia Valeri, whose family had burial rights in S. Tomasso in Parione, in Via de Parione, near the Oratorian Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella or Chiesa Nuova.

On 15 May 1639, Caterina married Gian Lorenzo Bernini at S. Tomasso. It was an arranged marriage, under orders from Pope Urban. She bore him eleven children:

* Paolo, 1644-1646
* Pietro Filippo, 1640-1698
* Angelica, 1646
* Agnese Celeste, 1647
* Paolo Valentino, 1648-1728
* Cecilia, 1649
* Dorotea, 1650
* Maria Maddelena, 1652
* Francesca Giuditta, 1653-1658
* Francesco Giuseppe, 1654
* Stefano Domenico, 1657-1723


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