Individuals

Benci, Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone di S. Donato

September 29th, 1390	birth
April 6th, 1455 a	death

Banchiere (banker)

Office	Government	Date
Gonfaloniere di Compagnia (Advisory Councilor, Sixteen) one of two advisory councils (Collegi): the Gonfalonieri di Compagnia discussed legislation in consultation with Signoria 19 Gonfalonieri di Compagnia (the standard bearers of the urban militia--four from the Sestiere of Oltrarno and three from each of the remaining Sestieri--from ca. 1304-06) after 1343 number of Gonfalonieri di Compagnia was reduced from 19 to 16, one from each of the four Gonfaloni in each of the four quarters Online Tratte Code: 16	Tre Maggiori	1429
	Tre Maggiori	1434
	Major Guild	1438
	Tre Maggiori	1438
Mercanzia (Commercial Court) high commercial court consisted initially of one member from each of the five more commercial guilds: the Mercatanti (22), Cambio (23), Lana (24), Seta (25), and Medici e Speziali (26). A sixth member of the court was added from the minor guilds in 1372. Online Tratte Code: 6	Mercanzia	1439
	Tre Maggiori	1439
	Tre Maggiori	1443
Gonfaloniere di Compagnia (Advisory Councilor, Sixteen) one of two advisory councils (Collegi): the Gonfalonieri di Compagnia discussed legislation in consultation with Signoria 19 Gonfalonieri di Compagnia (the standard bearers of the urban militia--four from the Sestiere of Oltrarno and three from each of the remaining Sestieri--from ca. 1304-06) after 1343 number of Gonfalonieri di Compagnia was reduced from 19 to 16, one from each of the four Gonfaloni in each of the four quarters Online Tratte Code: 16	Tre Maggiori	1451

Le Murate Benci		b
Le Murate Benci
S. Croce 019 Cappella della Santa Cecilia e tutte le Vergini	1434 to 1455 c
S. Croce 174 effigy tomb of Giovanni di Amerigo Benci		d
S. Croce 174 effigy tomb of Giovanni di Amerigo Benci	1455	e
S. Croce crypt 151 Sanne Benci	circa 1439	f

son of Benci, Amerigo di Simone di S. Donato
husband of Peruzzi, Ginevra di Bartolomeo di Verano di Jacopo di Salvestro (uxor Giovanni d’Amerigo Benci)
father of Benci, Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone di S. Donato
father of Benci, Bartolomeo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone
father of Benci, Carlo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone
father of Benci, Donato di Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone di S. Donato
father of Benci, Niccolò di Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone

Parents in law	Peruzzi, Bartolomeo di Verano di Jacopo di Salvestro di Pacino
Siblings in law	Peruzzi, Verano di Bartolomeo di Verano di Jacopo di Salvestro
Grandparents	Benci, Simone di S. Donato
Great grandparents	Benci, Donato (ser) (pater familias)
Grandchildren	Benci, Giovanni di Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Simone
Great grandchildren	Benci, Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo
Great great grandchildren	Benci, Maddalena di Amerigo di Giovanni di Amerigo di Giovanni (uxor Gino di Lodovico Capponi)

1389 to 1455

ASF, Catasto, 1427	vol. 64: 272 (S. Spirito Scala)
Dizionario biografico degli Italiani h	vol. 8 (1966) "Benci, Giovanni" by Yves Renouard
R. Iacopino, Le lapidi terragne di Santa Croce, II, 1418-1488	pp. 368
ASF, Manoscritti, Carte Pucci	vol. 593:44, fol. 2
D. Herlihy et al., Online Tratte

[a] If his birthday is September 29 as recorded in tratte, then 65 years, 6 months, and eight days puts him at April 6.
[b] inscription names him
[c] Santa Croce accounts (ASF, Conv. Soppr. 92, 297) record that Giovanni made an annual bequest of wine and bread for the celebration in October of the feast of St. Cecilia, a promise reiterated in testament of 1445. He was buried at foot of chapel in 1455.
[d] According to Weddle (134), though he had declared intention to be buried in his tomb at foot of Le Murate's main altar, convent's chronicle and burial records confirm that he was buried instead in north transept of S. Croce under the tomb slab with effigy installed there.
[e] inscription names him
[f] 1439 sepoltuario names him as owner
[g] Carte Pucci indicate family was in pop. S. Lucia
[h] "BENCI, Giovanni" by Yves Renouard in www.treccani.it/biografico