Individuals

Malescotti Bonaccolti, Caterina (mona) di Bonaccolto di Filippo di Lapo di Baldovinetto (uxor ser Zanobi di ser Mino Brunacci)

Description

Caterina filed her own tax declaration in 1427, listing her brother-in-law messer Domenico di ser Mino as owing her 500 florins for her dowry. She was renting a house from the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova for herself and her five children, providing only the age of her eldest son Jacopo, still a minor at 17, who likely helped her manage the household for his siblings Piero, Brigida, Bonacholto, and Giovampagholo.

Caterina's mother, Niccolosa, daughter of maestro Giovanni di Francesco medico and widow of Bonaccolto di Filippo di Lapo, named Caterina as her heir in a will drawn up by ser Domencio di Matteo Dati at a date left unspecified in the Priorista Mariani. A notation in one of several copies of the Santa Croce sepoltuario makes clear that Caterina's father was of the family variously known as the Malescotti, Baldovinetti, or Bonaccolti, from whom she inherited a tomb in the north cemetery of Santa Croce.

Alternate Forenames

Chaterina

Birth Family	Malescotti Bonaccolti
Gender	female
Age at Death	unknown
Database ID	2019

Life Dates

1410 to 1446 a

active

Memorials (3 total)

S. Croce cemetery 032.1 Bonaccolti family	early 15th century
S. Croce cemetery 032.2 sons of S. Zanobi di S. Mino de Brunacci	after 1440	b
S. Croce cemetery 032.2 sons of S. Zanobi di S. Mino de Brunacci	after 1446	c

Related Individuals (7 total)

daughter of Malescotti Bonaccolti, Buonaccolto di Filippo di Lapo di Baldovinetto
daughter of Niccolosa (donna) di Mag. Giovanni di Filippo (uxor Buonaccolto di Filippo di Lapo)
wife of Brunacci, Zanobi (ser) di S. Mino di S. Domenico
mother of Brunacci, Buonaccolto di S. Zanobi di S. Mino
mother of Brunacci, Gianpaolo di S. Zanobi di S. Mino
mother of Brunacci, Jacopo di S. Zanobi di S. Mino
mother of Brunacci, Piero di S. Zanobi di S. Mino

Extended Family (6 total)

Parents in law	Brunacci, Mino (ser) di S. Domenico
Siblings in law	Brunacci, Domenico (messer) di S. Mino di S. Domenico
Grandparents	Malescotti Bonaccolti, Filippo di Lapo di Baldovinetto
Great grandparents	Malescotti Bonaccolti, Lapo di Baldovinetto
Great great grandparents	Malescotti Bonaccolti, Baldovinetto
Great aunts and uncles	Malescotti Bonaccolti, Piero di Lapo di Baldovinetto

Related Groups (1 total)

Brunacci

Locations (2 total)

Bue, S. Croce, Florence	residence 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.	1446	d
Ruote, S. Croce, Florence	residence 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.	1427	e

Sources (4 total)

AOSC, 47, Sepoltuario del 1439 (copia)	pp. 34, no. 32
ASF, Catasto, 1427	vol. 73, fol. 224-224v
ASF, Manoscritti, 619, Sep. S. Croce 1439	fol. 8, no. 32
ASF, Manoscritti, 253, Priorista Mariani VI	fol. 1424 (di ser Mino poi Bonaccolti)

Notes

[a] According to her 1427 catasto declaration filed from the Ruote district of Santa Croce, Caterina's eldest son was born around 1410, indicating that she was most likely born in the 1390s. Lorenz Böninger has found her catasto declaration from 1446 filed instead from Santa Croce Bue. Lorenz Böninger, “Dieci schiaffi per un Terenzio? Il lodo di Niccolò Niccoli per ser Zanobi di ser Mino e Giovanni Aretino (30 novembre 1413).” Medioevo e rinascimento 24 (2013): 43–52, p. 52nn35-36.
[b] The 1439 sepoltuario indicates that Caterina inherited a cemetery tomb that had belonged to her birth family, sometimes called the Bonaccolti. The 1596 sepoltuario only records the tomb's original inscription: S. de Bonaccoltis. Stefano Rosselli, followed by the Priorista Mariani, notes the original inscription as well as its replacement: S. filiorum S. Zanobi S. Mini de Brunaccis. While it is tempting to see Caterina as the new slab's patron, her absence from its inscription raises the possibility that one or more of her sons installed the new marker with the patrilineal name and coat of arms.
[c] Though not referenced in the inscription, Mona Caterina was surely buried in the grave in the north cemetery of Santa Croce given that the original tomb marker carried the name of her paternal ancestors. Gravedigger records could confirm both her burial date and location, and additional research among Santa Croce records after 1440 could shed light on when the new tomb slab was commissioned and by whom.
[d] ASF, Catasto 660, fol. 483-483v as cited in Böninger, “Dieci schiaffi,” p. 52n36.
[e] The widow Mona Chaterina donna che fu di ser Zanobi di ser Mino filed her catasto declaration from the Ruote district in 1427 from a rental house she shared with her four sons and a daughter.