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Tocco Family
The House of Tocco ( ''Tocchi'', Τόκκοι, ''Tokkoi'') was an Italian nobility, Italian noble family from Benevento that came to prominence in the late 14th and 15th centuries, when they ruled various territories in western Greece as County Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, Counts Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos and Despot of Epirus, Despots of Epirus. During their brief period of rule in Greece, they were one of the most ambitious and able Latins (Middle Ages), Latin dynasties in the region, and were one of the few to leave descendants lasting nearly until modern times, in which they claimed to represent the senior matrilineal heirs of the Palaiologos, Palaiologos dynasty. The earliest known members of the family are recorded in the 12th century, in Benevento, though Tocco family genealogies claimed that they originated much earlier, with forged connections to ancient Gothic kings Theodoric the Great and Totila, as well as to the ancient Epirus (ancient state), Epir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guglielmo Tocco
Guglielmo Tocco (died in Naples, 22 September 1335) was the governor of the Greece, Greek island of Corfu in the 1330s and the founder of the Tocco family, Tocco dynasty. Guglielmo was born the son of Pietro Tocco, a notary in Melfi, in the Capetian House of Anjou, Angevin Kingdom of Naples. In 1330/1 he was named governor of Corfu by Philip I of Taranto.Kazhdan (1990), p. 2090 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 Franca. By his second marriage, to Margaret Orsini, the daughter of John I Orsini, County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos, Count palatine of Cephalonia, he had four children: * 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 Despotate of Epirus, Epirus * Nicoletto Tocco (died 1347/1354), who became a monk * Lisulo or Ludovico Tocco (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
