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
March 1st, 1416 to April 30th, 1416
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, 1422 to December 31st, 1422
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, 1426 to September 6th, 1426
console, Arte della Lana (consul, Wool Guild)
One of eight consuls governing the Wool Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. Consuls were drawn from four purses (<i>borse</i>) representing four city districts (<i>conventi</i>): S. Pancrazio (western district), Oltrarno (southern), S. Martino (northern), and S. Piero Scheraggio (eastern).
Online Tratte Code: 24
Major Guild
January 1st, 1431 to April 30th, 1431
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
September 7th, 1436 to January 6th, 1437
console, Arte della Lana (consul, Wool Guild)
One of eight consuls governing the Wool Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September. Consuls were drawn from four purses (<i>borse</i>) representing four city districts (<i>conventi</i>): S. Pancrazio (western district), Oltrarno (southern), S. Martino (northern), and S. Piero Scheraggio (eastern).
Online Tratte Code: 24
Major Guild
September 1st, 1440 to December 31st, 1440
Gonfaloniere di Giustizia (Standard-bearer of Justice)
Established in 1293, the Standard-bearer of Justice was the highest-ranking magistrate in the Signoria. Like all officers in the Tre Maggiori, he had to be a guild member in good standing but could be elected from any <i>sestiere</i> or quarter.
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 1398 (date is approximate) to circa 1444 (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.
1367 to 1444
documented
information found in sepoltuario, tomb inscription, burial, and/or other records
[a] Giovanni di ser Falcone was born in and served the Scala district in the Tre Maggiori, and he is named as the neighbor of his cousins Niccolò and Mariotto Falconi resident in this parish.
