Background
At his father"s death he inherited the Barberini comune of Palestrina and became the 3rd Barberini Prince of Palestrina. Like his father, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (in 1687).
At his father"s death he inherited the Barberini comune of Palestrina and became the 3rd Barberini Prince of Palestrina. Like his father, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (in 1687).
Not to be confused with contemporary actor Urbano Barberini. Urbano Barberini was the fourth child of the marriage, of Maffeo Barberini and Olimpia Giustiniani, which had reconciled the Barberini with the papacy after the Wars of Castro and falling out with Pope Innocent X. The legitimate male Barberini line became extinct at Urbano"s death in 1722 and the Barberini name and title"s were transferred to Giulio Cesare and the House of Colonna di Sciarra. Cornelia Zeno Ottoboni Felice Ventimiglia Pignatelli d"Aragona Maria Teresa Boncompagni Born in 1688, his birth predates any of Barberini"s marriages.
The will of Urbano Barberini"s last wife, Maria Teresa Boncompagni, makes mention of this Maffeo Callisto as the Marquis of Corese and she expresses "appreciation and gratitude" for him.
A large portion of the Barberini estate was left for him in her will. Later her progeny came into conflict with him over claims to the Barberini estate but the quarrel was settled with an agreement signed in Paris in 1811 which divided the estate between the two claimant branches of the family.