Roucha
Roucha is a village on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus , in the Lefkoşa district of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus .
history
The title of Count of Roucha (Roccas) goes back to the Lusignans , but was also retained in Venetian times.
The office became vacant in 1503 with the death of Helena von Grenier , daughter of Morfo von Grinier (Grenier). In 1521 the title was given to the Orthodox Cypriot Efgenios (Zeno) Singriticus after paying 1,500 ducats . His petition to the Council of Ten not to mention this payment in the certificate of appointment was gladly complied with. In 1528 the rank was converted to a hereditary title. He was succeeded by his son Jakobus Singriticus (Zacho, Zacco, Jacopo, Giacomo), who had been knighted in Venice in 1521 by the Doge Antonio Grimani .
The title was associated with the third highest rank among the island's aristocrats in 1544, after the barons of Jaffa and Karpas . After James' death in 1563, his eldest son Efgenios (Zegno) became Count of Rocca. He gave 10,000 ducats to build the city walls of Nicosia , and he also managed to collect donations from other Cypriot nobles. The Roccas bastion still bears his name today. Efgenios, the leader of the Venetian troops, was killed together with his brother, the Visconte of Nicosia, while defending Nicosia against the Ottomans . With him the title became extinct.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benjamin Arbel: Greek Magnates in Venetian Cyprus: The Case of the Synglitico Family . Dumbarton Oaks Papers 49, 1995 (Symposium on Byzantium and the Italians, 13th-15th Centuries), p. 327.