Casaprota

Its origins?

The history of Casaprota has its roots in Roman times, although its toponym "Casa Perotis o Perotae" was mentioned in 766 among the properties acquired by the Abbey of Farfa. In the first decades of the 10th century, probably on the initiative of the monks, a castle was erected there. In the 12th century, under the pontificate of Celestine III, there was news of a dispute between the De Romania, the most powerful noble family of Sabina, and the Camponeschi consortium, strongly rooted in the Monti Sabini, over possession of the church of St. Angel of Casaprota. This fact might suggest that the castle belonged to the De Romania family also considering that, at the beginning of the 15th century, the lords of the castle were the Brancaleoni family, a branch of the De Romania family. Later on Casaprota became the property of the Orsini family, until 1604, when the castle was expropriates by the apostolic chamber and soon after included in the governorship of Sabina, based in Collevecchio. After the definitive reorganization of the Papal State carried out in 1817, Casaprota and its 250 inhabitants, was included in the district of Poggio Mirteto, under the government of Fara. Later, 1853, it became an autonomous municipality, counting 500 inhabitants, divided between the village and the surrounding rural area, but reunited under the only parish of St. Dominic.