Guglielmo Tocco

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 Franca.[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. Cawley, Cawley, Charles, Guglielmo Tocco, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy,
2. Kazhdan (1990), p. 2090

Sources

• Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands Project: Counts of Kefalonia (Tocco)". Foundation for Medieval Genealogy. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
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• Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
• Zečević, Nada (2014). The Tocco of the Greek Realm: Nobility, Power and Migration in Latin Greece (14th-15th centuries). Belgrade: Makart.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)