Guglielmo Tocco

Who is Guglielmo Tocco?

Guglielmo Tocco was the governor of the Greek island of Corfu in the 1330s and the founder of the Tocco dynasty.

Guglielmo was born the son of Pietro Tocco, a notary in Melfi, in the Angevin Kingdom of Naples. In 1330/1 he was named governor of Corfu by Philip I of Taranto.

He was married twice. By his first marriage to Giovanna Torelli he had one son, Pietro Tocco, seneschal of Robert of Taranto and Count of Martina. By his second marriage, to Margaret Orsini, the daughter of John I Orsini, Count palatine of Cephalonia, he had four children:

⁕Leonardo I Tocco, who became Count palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos in 1357, beginning the Tocco line that ruled over the Ionian Islands and eventually Epirus

⁕Nicoletto Tocco, who became a monk

⁕Lisulo or Ludovico Tocco, seneschal of Robert of Taranto in 1354

⁕Margherita Tocco, who became nun at Naples