Manuele Zaccaria (died 1287/88) was the Genoese lord of

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and its profitable

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mines, which he received as a fief from the

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, from 1275 until his death in 1287/88. He was succeeded by his brother,

Benedetto I Zaccaria Benedetto I Zaccaria (c. 1235 – 1307) was an Italian admiral of the Republic of Genoa. He was the Lord of Phocaea (from 1288) and first Lord of Chios (from 1304), and the founder of Zaccaria fortunes in Byzantine and Latin Greece. He was, at d ...

. His parents were Fulcone Zaccaria and one of his wives: Giulietta or Beatrice. Manuele married Clarisia Fieschi, and had four sons, Tedisio, Leonardo, Odoardo and Manfredo.

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* * 1280s deaths 13th-century Byzantine people 13th-century Genoese people Manuele Year of birth unknown Year of death uncertain {{Byzantine-bio-stub