Giudice of Gallura
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Giudicato of Gallura
The Giudicato of Gallura was one of four Sardinian giudicati of the Middle Ages. These were de facto independent states ruled by judges bearing the title iudex . Gallura, a name which comes from gallus, meaning rooster , was subdivided into ten curatoriae governed by curatores under the judge...
were the local rulers of the northeast of Sardinia
Sardinia
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...
during the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
. Theirs was the closest giudicato to Corsica
Corsica
Corsica is an island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
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- ManfredManfred of GalluraManfred was the first Judge of Gallura. He was probably a client of the Republic of Pisa. His predecessor may have been Saltaro. He was succeeded by Baldo.-Sources:*Manno, Giuseppe. 2005....
(c. 1020 – c. 1040) - BaldoBaldo of GalluraBaldo was the Judge of Gallura during the time of Comita I of Torres. He succeeded Manfred and both were probably Pisan clients.Comita made war on Baldo, defeated him, and captured him. His successor is not known with certainty. It was probably Constantine I, but was perhaps...
(c. 1040 – c. 1065) - Constantine IConstantine I of GalluraConstantine I was the Giudice of Gallura from probably before 1065 to sometime before 1100. He was probably a member of the Gherardeschi family of Pisa and governed Gallura on behalf of the Republic....
(c. 1065 – c. 1080) - SaltaroSaltaro of GalluraSaltaro was the Judge of Gallura, but the dates of his reign are unknown, as are his familial ties.He made a donation of Vitithe to the Church of Pisa which was confirmed in 1116 by Ittocorre. The charter calls him encus mortuus est, idest sine haeredibus . He may have been a son and successor of...
(c. 1080) - TorchitorioTorchitorio of GalluraTorchitorio de Zori is the earliest Judge of Gallura known with certainty and attested by contemporary sources. He lived in the late 11th century at a time when Sardinia was entering the wider Western European scene for the first time in centuries...
(c. 1080 – c. 1100) - IttocorreIttocorre of GalluraIttocorre or Ottocorre was the Judge of Gallura early in the 12th century. He is first mentioned in a donation charter of Padules de Gunale, the widow of Torchitorio de Zori in 1112, from which it is inferred that he succeeded Torchitorio as judge around the turn of the century.By a Pisan charter...
(1100 – 1116) - Constantine II (1116 – c. 1133)
- ComitaComita of GalluraComita Spanu was the giudice of Gallura, in Sardinia, from 1133 to 1146. He was the son and successor of Constantine II.Around 1130, Comita, like Gonario II of Torres and Constantine I of Arborea, did homage to the archdiocese of Pisa. On 26 June 1132, Comita was at the judicial palace of Logudoro...
(c. 1133 – 1146) - Constantine IIIConstantine III of GalluraConstantine III , possibly a son of Ittocorre, succeeded Comita Spanu as giudice of Gallura in 1146 and reigned until 1161, when he retired from the world as a monk...
(1146 – c. 1170) - Barisone IIBarisone II of GalluraBarisone II was the Judge of Gallura from about 1170 to his death. He was the son of Constantine III. His name appears in acts of 1182 and 1184....
(c. 1170 – 1203) - ElenaElena of GalluraElena was the daughter and successor of Barisone II of Gallura and was named after her mother of the Lacon family. She ruled Gallura from the death of her father until her own death, though she was eclipsed by her husband after 1207....
(1203 – 1218) - Lambert (1207 – 1225)
- Ubaldo (1225 – 1238)
- JohnJohn of GalluraJohn Visconti was the Judge of Gallura from 1238 to his death. He was a member of the Visconti dynasty of Pisa....
(1238 – 1275) - NinoNino ViscontiUgolino Visconti , better known as Nino, was the Giudice of Gallura from 1275 or 1276 to his death. He was a son of Giovanni Visconti and nephew of Ugolino della Gherardesca. He was the first husband of Beatrice, daughter of Obizzo II d'Este...
(1275 – 1298) - JoannaJoanna of GalluraJoanna Visconti was the titular Judge of Gallura from 1298. She was the daughter of Ugolino Visconti and Beatrice, daughter of Obizzo II d'Este...
(1298 – 1308)
- Directly to Republic of PisaRepublic of PisaThe Republic of Pisa was a de facto independent state centered on the Tuscan city of Pisa during the late tenth and eleventh centuries. It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian trade for a century before being surpassed and...
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