Guglielmo Tocco

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Guglielmo Tocco (died in Naples, 22 September 1335)^[1] was the governor of the Greek island of Corfu in the 1330s and the founder of the Tocco dynasty.

Guglielmo was born the son of Pietro Tocco, a notary in Melfi, in the Angevin Kingdom of Naples.^[1] In 1330/1 he was named governor of Corfu by Philip I of Taranto.^[1]^[2]

He was married twice. By his first marriage to Giovanna Torelli he had one son, Pietro Tocco, seneschal of Robert of Taranto and Count of Martina.^[1] By his second marriage, to Margaret Orsini, the daughter of John I Orsini, Count palatine of Cephalonia, he had four children:^[1]

Leonardo I Tocco (died 1375/1377), who became Count palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos in 1357, beginning the Tocco line that ruled over the Ionian Islands and eventually Epirus^[2]
Nicoletto Tocco (died 1347/1354), who became a monk^[1]
Lisulo or Ludovico Tocco (died 1360), seneschal of Robert of Taranto in 1354^[1]
Margherita Tocco, who became nun at Naples^[1]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Cawley, Cawley, Charles, Guglielmo Tocco, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012 ,
↑ 2.0 2.1 Kazhdan (1990), p. 2090

Sources

Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands Project: Counts of Kefalonia (Tocco)". Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.

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Name	Tocco, Guglielmo
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Short description	Governor of Corfu
Date of birth
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Date of death	22 September 1335
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