Editing Pope Boniface VIII (section)

===Family===
Benedetto Caetani was born in [[Anagni]], some {{convert|31|mi|km|-1|order=flip}} southeast of [[Rome]]. He was a younger son of Roffredo Caetani (Podestà of Todi in 1274–1275), a member of a [[baronial]] family of the [[Papal States]], the [[Caetani]] or ''Gaetani dell'Aquila''.<ref>His elder brother, Roffredo or Goffredo, was the first Conte di [[Caserta]] from 1288, Signore di Calvi, Vairano e Norma in 1282, Senator of Rome 1290–1292, Signore di Vairano by decree of the [[King of Sicily]] on 1 April 1291, [[Podestà]] of [[Todi]] (1282/5–1283), Signore di Caserta (1290). He had a younger brother, Giovanni, and three sisters.</ref> Through his mother, Emilia Patrasso di Guarcino, a niece of [[Pope Alexander IV]] (Rinaldo dei Conti di Segni—who was himself a nephew of [[Pope Gregory IX]]), he was not far distant from the seat of ecclesiastical power and patronage. His father's younger brother, Atenolfo, was [[Podestà]] di [[Orvieto]].<ref>Finke, p. 9. Tosti, p. 37.</ref>