Pietro II Tocco

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Pietro II. Tocco (called Petrillo; German: Peter II. Tocco; † after August 25, 1377 in Naples ) from the Neapolitan noble family Tocco was a Neapolitan patrician , Seneschal of the Royal Hospice at the time of King Robert of Anjou , from 1353 Lord of Martina Franca , Gualda, Santa Maria della Vetrana (today Avetrana ) in Apulia , Pomigliano d'Arco in Campania and some goods on the island of Corfu .

Life

Pietro II. Tocco was the son of  Guglielmo II. Tocco , the governor of Corfu and probably his second wife Margherita Orsini Angelo Dukas, daughter of Giovanni I Orsini , the lord of Lefkada and the co-ruler of Kefalonia and his wife Maria Komnene Dukaina Angelina the Despot born of Epirus . The non-contemporary ordinal number II serves to distinguish it from his grandfather Pietro I Tocco († September 22, 1335 in Naples). As loyal supporters of the Angevin monarchs, the family gained influence in the Kingdom of Naples.

Pietro entered the service of Robert of Taranto , Prince of the Principality of Taranto , the Regnum Albaniae and the Principality of Achaia , and Titular Emperor of Constantinople from the older house of Anjou before 1340 .

On November 3, 1347, Louis I of Hungary invaded the Kingdom of Naples to avenge his murdered brother. While Queen Joan I of Naples managed to flee Naples with her second husband Ludwig von Taranto and seek refuge in Avignon , Ludwig's brother, Robert von Taranto, was captured in Aversa and brought to Hungary in 1348 . Pietro and his brother Leonardo I borrowed money for the prince's release from captivity in Hungary. From a letter from Margherita von Taranto (sister of Robert and Ludwig von Taranto) of July 25, 1350 (?) It emerges that Pietro was sent to Hungary to negotiate the liberation of the prince.

On January 30, 1351, Pietro appears in one act as a lawyer for the Prince of Taranto.

Palatine County of Kefalonia, Ithaca and Zakynthos (1388)
Tocco Chapel in Naples Cathedral

When Robert of Taranto was released in March 1352, Pietro II, who had worked “hard” on Robert's liberation, received, according to the privilege of March 20, 1353, the fiefs of Martina , Gualda in the area of ​​Martina Franca, Santa Maria della Vetrana (today Avetrana) in the province of Taranto and some goods in Corfu. In March 1353 Pietro received the fief of Pomigliano d'Arco in the metropolitan city of Naples . On October 21, 1364 Robert confirmed the fiefdom of Martina Franca and asked for the royal approval of Joan I of Naples . On November 24, 1364, Queen Joan I confirmed the privileges and appointed Pietro 1st Count of Martina Franca. In Martina Franca there is still "Via Pietro del Tocco" today.

Robert of Taranto, who wanted to recapture the kingdom of Constantinople for his mother, Katharina von Valois-Courtenay , titular empress of Constantinople , went with the two Tocco brothers (Pietro and Leonardo) to Greece in 1353/54 , where it was them managed to take control of Corfu, Kefalonia , Zakynthos , Ithaca , Arta , the Vonitsa fortress and other places on the mainland of Morea . Robert titled himself as Duke of Lefkada and made Leonardo I in 1357 1st Count Palatine of Kefalonia. While Leonardo stayed behind as captain general, Robert and Pietro II returned to Naples in 1364.

In 1370 Pietro II himself put the plaque "Magnifico Petro de Tocco Neapoli milite Comite Martinae 1370.", which is located in front of the Tocco chapel in the cathedral of Naples (to the right of the apse ), which is dedicated to St. Aspreno .

Queen Giovanna I reaffirmed the fiefs and privileges granted by Roberto of Taranto on November 15, 1374 and June 30, 1375.

On August 25, 1377, Pietro II Tocco divided his feudal fortune between his sons Roberto and Guglielmo III and took care of the succession of his eldest son Roberto by handing over Santa Maria dell'Avetrana and the fief of Corfu, while the second-born son Pomigliano d'Arco and Martina Franca. After Roberto's death, which must have taken place at the end of 1377 or beginning of 1378, Pietro II retained the rule over Martina Franca until his death (between May 23, 1381 and February 8, 1383); in return he granted his second son Avetrana.

progeny

In his first marriage Pietro married Covella Capece (or Giacoma or Giovanna d'Aversana? † before August 25, 1377). After her death, before April 19, 1359, he married Isabella de Sabran († after 1378), daughter of Guglielmo (Count of Celano, governor of Abruzzo and Molise) and Francesca the Count of Celano.

Pietro II. Tocco had two children:

  • Roberto († after August 25, 1377), Neapolitan patrician; by gift of his father he received on August 25, 1377 the land of Santa Maria dell'Avetrana and the fiefdom of Corfu.
  • Guglielmo III. (Gurello; † 1408 in Manfredonia ), Neapolitan patrician, 2nd Count of Martina, Lord of Pomigliano d'Arco, Casali in the Principality of Achaia and goods in Castel Morrone ; bought Montemiletto in 1383 ; 1353 knight of the knightly order "Ordine del Nodo";

literature

  • Archivio di Stato di Napoli, Antonio Allocati (a cura di): Archivio privato di Tocco di Montemiletto . Rome 1978.
  • Romolo Caggese: Italia, 1313-1414 . Declino dell'impero e del papato e sviluppo degli stati nazionali. Garzanti, Milano 1980, p. 297-331 .
  • D. Cesare D'Engenio Caracciolo: Napoli Sacra . Ottavio Beltrano, Naples 1623 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Walter Haberstumpf: Dinasti italiani in Levante. I Tocco duchi di Leucade. Regesti (secoli XIV-XVII) . In: Studi Veneziani . tape XLV . Venice 2005, p. 165-211 .
  • Andreas Kiesewetter: La cedola per la riscossione dell'adohamentum (adoa) nelle provincie del regno nel 1378 (ex Archivio di Stato di Napoli, Registro angioino 373, cc. 65r – 102v) . In: Périphéries financières angevines: institutions et pratiques de l'administration de territoires composites (XIIIe – XVe siècle) . École Française de Rome, Rome 2018, p. 177-204 ( openedition.org ).
  • Davide Shamà: I di Tocco, Sovrani dell'Epiro e di Leucade. Studio storico-genealogico . In: Notiario dell'Associazione Nobiliare Regionale Veneta, anno V, n.5 . La Musa Talìa, Venice 2013, p. 45–118 (here 1–74) .
  • Antonio Summonte: Historia della città e Regno di Napoli . III, Libro IV. Stamperia Giuseppe Raimondi e Domenico Vivenzio, Naples 1748 ( online version in the Google book search).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Perhaps he can be identified with a Roberto di Tocco, chamberlain and royal " famiglio " (Latin: famĭlia, famŭlus = servant) who lived in 1402.
  2. ↑ Casale (plural casali) is the Italian name for a house or a group of houses in the country.
  3. ↑ The order of knights "Ordine del Nodo" (Order of the Knot or of the Holy Spirit) was a curial order that was associated with the dynasty ruling in Naples and followed the religious rules of Basil the Great . The statute was adopted on the occasion of the first annual meeting of its members on Pentecost in 1353.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Davide Shamà, I di Tocco, Sovrani dell'Epiro e di Leucade, p. 7
  2. ↑ a b c Di Tocco in: Genmarenostrum.it
  3. ↑ Romolo Caggese, Italia, 1313-1414, cap. VII, vol. VI, p. 314
  4. ^ Archivio privato di Tocco di Montemiletto, p. 167
  5. ↑ Walter Haberstumpf, Dinasti italiani in Levante. I Tocco duchi di Leucade, p. 173
  6. ^ William Miller, The Latins in the Levant, p. 332
  7. ^ Roberto di Taranto. Foundation of Medieval Genealogy, accessed May 31, 2020 .
  8. ^ A b Antonio Summonte: Historia della città e Regno di Napoli, p. 390
  9. ^ Antonio Summonte: Historia della città e Regno di Napoli, p. 390
  10. ↑ D. Cesare D'Engenio Caracciolo, Napoli Sacra, p 23
  11. ↑ Andreas Kiesewetter: La cedola per la riscossione dell'adohamentum (ADOA) nelle provincie del Regno nel 1378
  12. ↑ Davide Shamà, I di Tocco, Sovrani dell'Epiro e di Leucade, p. 11
  13. ↑ Davide Shamà, I di Tocco, Sovrani dell'Epiro e di Leucade, p. 12
  14. ↑ Famiglia di Tocco In: Nobili-napoletani.it
personal data
SURNAME Pietro II Tocco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter II Tocco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Neapolitan patrician, seneschal
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH 1377
Place of death Naples