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Prince Ruspoli, Prince of Cerveteri is a Roman noble family.

The papal title was conferred in 1721, and the Italian in 1905.

They held the post of Grand Master of the Sacred Apostolic Hospice, or Quartermaster-General of the Sacred Palaces, which was an hereditary official of the Pontifical Household.

He was a Participating Privy Chamberlains and the sole lay member of the Noble Privy Antechamber, as well as a Participating Privy Chamberlains of the Sword and Cape (who were all laymen, traditionally holding hereditary posts).

The post was abolished in the reforms of the Papal Curia after 1968.