circa 1381 (date is approximate) to circa 1399 (date is approximate)
Posts (6 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
January 1st, 1385 to February 28th, 1385
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, 1388 to May 6th, 1389
console, Arte dei Coreggiai (consul, Belt Makers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Belt Makers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September.
Online Tratte Code: 37
Minor Guild
May 1st, 1394 to August 31st, 1394
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, 1394 to September 14th, 1394
console, Arte dei Coreggiai (consul, Belt Makers Guild)
One of four consuls governing the Belt Makers Guild, elected for four-month terms beginning in January, May, or September.
person who receives rights to and responsibility for a memorial through inheritance
Alternate Names: descendant; inheritor
Getty ID: 300258972
circa 1420s (date is approximate)
likely
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
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.
[a] Paolo d'Ambruogio was elected to serve his guild on January 28th, 1397, an odd date for a guild election making it difficult to know with clarity the length of his term. Given that the next slate of consuls were elected on 12 April, it seems that though the initial election was late that the remainder of the terms in 1397 followed the usual schedule.
[b] Given that we do not know when Paolo died, it is difficult to say whether he inherited the tomb set up by his father.
