How is the family name "Counts of Tusculum" usually referred to?
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The Counts of Tusculum were a powerful family of nobles who ruled over Tusculum, a town near Rome, from the 10th to the 12th centuries. They were originally counts of the Duchy of Rome, but they became independent of the pope in the 11th century. The counts were often in conflict with the popes, and they were sometimes successful in overthrowing them.
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