circa 1416 (date is approximate) to circa 1446 (date is approximate)
Posts (10 total)
Office
Government
Date
priore (prior)
Together with the <i>gonfaloniere di giustizia</i> the priors constituted the Signoria, Florence's principal executive magistracy. Legislation was initiated by the Signoria in consultation with the two advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>). Their number changed over time but was established at eight after 1343, with two representatives per quarter. The officeholders, collectively known as <i>signori</i>, were assisted by a notary (<i>notaio della Signoria</i>). Serving in the priorate was the highest honor a family could achieve in Republican Florence.
Online Tratte Code: 8
Tre Maggiori
September 1st, 1432 to October 31st, 1432
console, Arte del Cambio (consul, Bankers and Money Changers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Bankers and Money Changers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September.
Online Tratte Code: 23
Major Guild
January 1st, 1433 to April 30th, 1433
Mercanzia (Mercanzia)
Established in 1308, a Florentine association with jurisdiction over commercial affairs, initially governed by representatives of five major guilds—the Merchants, Bankers, Wool, Silk, and Doctors and Apothecaries—with a representative of the minor guilds added in 1372.
Online Tratte Code: 6
Other
July 1st, 1433 to September 30th, 1433
gonfaloniere di Compagnia (company standard-bearer (Nineteen/Sixteen))
A standard-bearer of the urban militia who also served on one of the two primary advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>) of the Signoria. From around 1304, nineteen <i>gonfalonieri di Compagnia</i> were drawn from the city’s six <i>sestieri</i>. Following the reorganization of 1343, their number was reduced to sixteen, one from each <i>gonfalone</i> of the four new quarters, and their <i>collegio</i> became known as the Sixteen (<i>Sedici</i>).
Online Tratte Code: 16
Tre Maggiori
May 7th, 1435 to September 6th, 1435
priore (prior)
Together with the <i>gonfaloniere di giustizia</i> the priors constituted the Signoria, Florence's principal executive magistracy. Legislation was initiated by the Signoria in consultation with the two advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>). Their number changed over time but was established at eight after 1343, with two representatives per quarter. The officeholders, collectively known as <i>signori</i>, were assisted by a notary (<i>notaio della Signoria</i>). Serving in the priorate was the highest honor a family could achieve in Republican Florence.
Online Tratte Code: 8
Tre Maggiori
November 1st, 1436 to December 31st, 1436
console, Arte del Cambio (consul, Bankers and Money Changers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Bankers and Money Changers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September.
Online Tratte Code: 23
Major Guild
September 1st, 1439 to December 31st, 1439
buonuomo (good man (Twelve))
A member of one of the two primary advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>) known as the Buonuomini. They discussed legislation in consultation with the Signoria, and after 1321 their number was standardized at twelve with two representatives from each <i>sestiere</i>; after 1343, three from each quarter.
Online Tratte Code: 12
Tre Maggiori
June 15th, 1440 to September 14th, 1440
console, Arte del Cambio (consul, Bankers and Money Changers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Bankers and Money Changers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September.
Online Tratte Code: 23
Major Guild
May 1st, 1441 to August 31st, 1441
Mercanzia (Mercanzia)
Established in 1308, a Florentine association with jurisdiction over commercial affairs, initially governed by representatives of five major guilds—the Merchants, Bankers, Wool, Silk, and Doctors and Apothecaries—with a representative of the minor guilds added in 1372.
Online Tratte Code: 6
Other
January 1st, 1444 to March 31st, 1444
buonuomo (good man (Twelve))
A member of one of the two primary advisory colleges (<i>collegi</i>) known as the Buonuomini. They discussed legislation in consultation with the Signoria, and after 1321 their number was standardized at twelve with two representatives from each <i>sestiere</i>; after 1343, three from each quarter.
probably had this role; for burials, the individual is owner/heir, and/or spouse, parent, or child is interred here; no conflicting evidence that the person is buried elsewhere
individual has matriculated, joined, or been named to this group, including one who has joined a monastery, friary, or convent as a member or third order
circa 1416 (date is approximate) to circa 1446 (date is approximate)
Citizens of Florence could claim membership in a gonfalone other than where they lived for purposes of taxation and political sortition, usually that of their father or other ancestor and related to where the family traditionally held its highest-value properties. The 1427 catasto contains numerous examples of a declared residence (casa per abitazione) in a parish not physically located in the gonfalone from which the tax declaration was made. Residence is "surmised" when extrapolated from political service or tax records that do not indicate the parish of residence and "documented" when the physical location of a house is known.
