Bufillo Brancaccio

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Bufillo Brancaccio , later (in France) Bufile de Brancas († shortly after January 15, 1416 ) was an Italian-French nobleman at the turn of the 14th to the 15th century. He came from the Neapolitan Brancaccio family and became the progenitor of the Provencal Brancas family , whose members made it to the Duc de Villars and Pair de France .

Life

Bufillo Brancaccio was the youngest son of the Neapolitan patricians Marino Brancaccio and Giacoma d'Aversa. His older brothers were Francesco Brancaccio, called Fusco , Lord of Laviano and Trentola, and the Archbishop and (from 1378) Cardinal Niccolò Brancaccio . They were maternal relatives of Pope Urban VI. (Bartolomeo Prignano).

He was also a Neapolitan patrician, as well as Count of Agnana or Agnano. He became captain general of the papal army and was an executioner in Abruzzo in 1376 .

After Robert of Geneva became the antipope (Clement VII) against Urban VI in September 1378. was elected, he appointed Niccolò Brancaccio cardinal in December. The following year, Clement VII and Cardinal Brancaccio with him moved to Avignon . Bufillo Brancaccio probably followed them a year later, where he was now called Bufile de Brancas . He entered the service of the Pope and the Duke of Anjou , on August 15, 1382 he was chamberlain to the Duke, who was also Count of Provence ; he acquired the dominions d'Oyse and Villosc here.

For services to the Order of St. John on Rhodes , Brancaccio received the island of Nisaro (now Nisyros ) south of Kos in the Dodecanese as a sovereign principality from the Grand Master , which Pope Clement VII confirmed with a bull on January 31, 1391 , with which he also made him Marshal of Roman court appointed. It is not known what merit it was and when it was rendered.

In his homeland, Bufillo Brancaccio supported the pretender to the throne Ludwig II of Anjou in his fight, which he led from 1390 for the crown of Naples against his relative Ladislaus . Ludwig managed to briefly take the capital Naples , but lost it again in 1399 and finally to Ladislaus. Although Pope Boniface IX. (1389–1404) Bufillo Brancaccio as hereditary marshal of the Roman Church in the Mark Ancona , but he now had to leave southern Italy, he followed Louis of Anjou to France.

On January 15, 1416 he made his will in Avignon and died a short time later. He was buried in the chapel that his brother, the cardinal, had built in the Dominican church in Avignon.

family

Bufillo Brancaccio married Marietta de Amorosis in Naples, who survived him. Six children of the couple are known:

  • Pierre-Nicolas de Brancas, Apostolic Protonotary , Archdeacon of Autun and Limoges , Cardinal after his uncle, Archbishop of Cosenza , buried in Avignon
  • Barthélemy de Brancas, Seigneur d'Oyse, attested Cavaillon October 23, 1450, buried in the Dominican church in Avignon in the burial chapel donated by his family; ⚭ (1) 1416 Ricarda del Carretto, daughter of Lanzarino II. Del Carretto, Marchese di Finale (Liguria) , and Catarina de Savona; ⚭ (2) Isabella von Saluzzo, widowed the Notre-Dame-de-Pitié chapel in the Saint-Pierre church in Avignon in 1471
  • Jean de Brancas, Seigneur de Villosc; ⚭ (Marriage contract February 5, 1419) Clémence d'Agoult, daughter of Raymond d'Agoult, Seigneur de Mison, and Louise de Glandèves
  • Catherine de Brancas, nun in the Dominican monastery of Sainte-Praxède in Avignon
  • Catherine de Brancas; ⚭ Gurello di Nicola Brancaccio, Neapolitan patrician, a relative from the Kingdom of Naples
  • Angélique de Brancas; ⚭ February 12, 1407 Raymond de Forcalquier, Baron de Céreste

In addition, he had an illegitimate daughter, Alisette de Brancas (* 1396, † 1454/76 Avignon). She married Luigi de 'Pazzi (also called Aghinolfi), a citizen of Avignon.

literature

Web link

  • Libro d'Oro della Nobilità Mediterranea - de Brancas - Duchi di Villars e Pari di Francia ( online , without references, accessed on January 10, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ↑ Étienne Baluze ( Stephanus Baluzius ), Vitae Paparum Avenionensis: hoc est, historia pontificum romanorum qui in Gallia sederunt do anno Christi MCCCV usque ad annum MCCCXCIV, Tomus primus , Paris: Franciscum Muguet, 1693, p. 1256: erat sic eodem Illegal Barensis , in the words of Cardinal Bertrand Lagier
  2. ↑ The title was borne exclusively by him. What is meant are Agnana Calabra in the province of Reggio Calabria , or Agnano, today a district of Naples
  3. ↑ After Erf-Gruber he also acquired the margraviate of Villars and the county of Lauragais
  4. ^ Budde, Zedler, Aubert ,ersch-Gruber; the island was actually administered by others until the Turkish occupation.
  5. ↑ Budde, Zedler ,ersch-Gruber
  6. ↑ Only in Aubert, otherwise known neither as a cardinal nor as an archbishop of Cosenza
personal data
SURNAME Brancaccio, Bufillo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bufile de Brancas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-French military
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: January 15, 1416