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The House of Lacon-Gunale was an indigenous Italian noble family of medieval
Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
originally established in all the four thrones of the Judgedoms, the four Sardinian medieval kingdoms.


Origin

Probably the Lacon and Gunale descended respectively from the last ''
dux ''Dux'' (, : ''ducēs'') is Latin for "leader" (from the noun ''dux, ducis'', "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.). During the Roman Republic and for the first centuries of the Roman Empire, ''dux'' coul ...
'' and ''
praeses ''Praeses'' (Latin  ''praesides'') is a Latin word meaning "placed before" or "at the head". In antiquity, notably under the Roman Dominate, it was used to refer to Roman governors; it continues to see some use for various modern positions. ...
'' of Byzantine Sardinia, perhaps originating from the town of
Laconi Laconi, Làconi in Sardinian language, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Oristano in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and ...
in Sarcidano and Gunale or Unale (no longer in existence, it was located in the countryside of Arzachena) in
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, which joined in a single family, that assumed the role of ''Iudex provinciae'' or
Archon ''Archon'' (, plural: , ''árchontes'') is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem , meaning "to be first, to rule", derived from the same ...
of Sardinia, residing in Caralis. From the 11th century, with the fragmentation of the island territory in Judgedoms, it divided into four branches.


Bibliography

* Francesco Cesare Casula, ''Dizionario storico sardo'', Carlo Delfino editore, Sassari, 2009 Judgedoms Lacon-Gunale