Pietro Recanelli Giustiniani

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Pietro Recanelli Giustiniani († after 1363) was a Genoese gentleman on Chios .

Life

Pietro Recanelli was the leading of eight partners in the powerful Genoese trading company Maona , which in 1346 had de facto taken control of Chios. They did their business mainly with the export of alums and mastic to the entire eastern Mediterranean region.

When the Doge Simone Boccanegra arranged a new maona for Chios in 1362 after differences with the island farmers, Recanelli and the other partners took the family name of the Giustiniani . In the following year the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos confirmed their rule over Chios in return for an annual donation of 500 Hyperpyra . With the imperial chrysobull , Recanelli was also awarded the high court dignity of a despot . With the approval of the emperor, the Giustiniani were allowed to expand their territory to Samos , Inousses and Phokaia ; the Republic of Genoa later granted them the right to mint their own coins.

Pietro Recanelli Giustiniani is considered to be the progenitor of the Genoese branch of the Giustiniani family.

literature

  • Philip P. Argenti : The Occupation of Chios by the Genoese and Their Administration of the Island 1346-1566. Described in Contemporary Documents and Official Dispatches. Vol. 1: Text . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1958, p. 507.
  • George Finlay , Henry Fanshawe Tozer: A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time BC 146 to AD 1864. The Byzantine and Greek Empires. Part 2: AD 1057-1453 . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1877.
  • Jacques Le Goff : Merchants and Bankers in the Middle Ages. Translated from the French by Friedel Weinert (= Campus . Vol. 1066). Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1993, ISBN 3-593-34842-X ( PDF; 775 kB ).
  • William Miller : Essays on the Latin Orient . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1921 (reprinted 2014).
  • Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 3: Faber Felix - Juwayni, Al- . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2012, ISBN 978-2-503-53243-1 , p. 123.
  • Christopher Wright: The Gattilusio Lordships and the Aegean World 1355-1462. EJ Brill, Leiden 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-26481-6 , p. 408.

Remarks

  1. See Le Goff, Kaufmann , p. 25.
  2. See Miller, Essays , p. 306.
  3. See EPLBHC 3, p. 123.
  4. See Finlay / Tozer, History , p. 73.