Francesca AcciaioliorAcciajuoli(died 1430) was the wife ofCarlo I Tocco,Count Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos.
Early life
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Francesca was the younger of the two daughters ofNerio I Acciaioliand Agnes de' Saraceni.[1][2]Nerio Acciaioli—a scion of aprominent banking house of Florence—moved toFrankish Greecein the 1360s.[3]Initially, he acted on behalf of his powerful kinsman,Niccolò Acciaioli,who adopted him as his son.[4]Nerio seized large domains in thePrincipality of Achaea:Niccolò's son, Angelo, mortgagedCorinthto him and Nerio captured Megara by force.[5][6]Francesca's maternal grandfather, Saraceno de' Saraceni, was aVenetiancitizen inNegroponte.[7]Nerio and Agnes get married before 1381.[2]
Negotiations about Francesca's marriage with a son of Felipe Dalmau, the vicar-general of the Duchy of Athens, were futile in 1382.[8]Plans about Francesca's marriage with Angelo Acciaioli's son did not materialize either in 1388.[8]By 1388, Nerio became the actual ruler of theDuchy of Athens.[9]
Countess
editFrancesca was given in marriage to Carlo I Tocco, Count Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos between 1388 and 1393.[10]Carlo I's mother, Maddalena de' Buondelmonti, had arranged the marriage, expecting that Francesca was to inherit parts of her father's domains, because she had no legitimate brothers.[10]According to canon law, the marriage was incestuous, because Maddalena was Niccolò Acciaioli's niece, but its legality was never questioned.[10]
References
edit- ^Lock 1995,p. 368.
- ^abSetton 1975,p. 232.
- ^Lock 1995,p. 129.
- ^Lock 1995,pp. 130–131.
- ^Lock 1995,p. 131.
- ^Fine 1994,p. 249.
- ^Setton 1975,pp. 232, 801.
- ^abStathakopoulos 2018,p. 242.
- ^Zečević 2014,p. 54.
- ^abcZečević 2014,p. 55.
Sources
edit- Fine, John V. A. Jr.(1994) [1987].The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest.Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.ISBN0-472-08260-4.
- Lock, Peter (1995).The Franks in the Aegean, 1204–1500.Longman.ISBN0-582-05140-1.
- Setton, Kenneth M.(1975). "The Catalans and Florentines in Greece, 1380–1462". In Setton, Kenneth M.; Hazard, Harry W. (eds.).The History of the Crusades, Volume Three: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.The University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 225–277.ISBN0-299-06670-3.
- Stathakopoulos, Dionysios (2018). "Sister, Widow, Consort, Bride: Four Latin Ladies in Greece (1330–1430)". In Lymberopoulou, Angeliki (ed.).Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204–1669: Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?.Routledge. pp. 236–.ISBN978-0-8153-7267-7.
- Zečević, Nada (2014).The Tocco of the Greek Realm: Nobility, Power and Migration in Latin Greece (14th-15th centuries).Makart.ISBN978-86-87115-11-8.