Gerolamo De Franchi Toso (1585–1668)
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Gerolamo De Franchi Toso (Genoa, 6 January 1585 - Genoa, 1668) was the 111th Doge of the
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Biography

Gerolamo De Franchi Toso was born in the Genoese capital on 6 January 1585. He is the son of Federico De Franchi Toso, doge of Genoa in the two years 1623–1625, and Maddalena Durazzo. In addition to his father, his younger brother
Giacomo De Franchi Toso Giacomo De Franchi Toso (1590 in Genoa – 1657 in Genoa) was the 109th Doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica. Biography Son of Federico De Franchi Toso, doge in the two-year period 1623–1625, and Maddalena Durazzo, he was born ...
, with whom he had a strong political rivalry, his paternal grandfather Gerolamo De Franchi Toso and his maternal grandfather Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo, were all Doges of the Republic of Genoa. On 8 September 1652 he managed to obtain the majority of the votes of the Grand Council for the election as doge, the sixty-sixth in biennial succession and the one hundred and eleventh in republican history. As doge he was also invested with the related biennial office of king of Corsica. Unlike the "softer" and "faithful respectful of the republican laws" of his brother Giacomo, the Dogate of Gerolamo De Franchi Toso was more "authoritarian" in his choices especially in matters of justice and "new undisputed sovereignty" of the Genoese republic. After his term of office on 8 September 1654, he had to wait two years before he was recognized as a perpetual procurator by the college of supreme syndicators. De Franchi Toso died in Genoa in 1668.


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Republic of Genoa The Republic of Genoa ( lij, Repúbrica de Zêna ; it, Repubblica di Genova; la, Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the 11th century to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast. During the Lat ...
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Doge of Genoa The Doge of Genoa ( lij, Dûxe, ; la, Januensium dux et populi defensor, "Commander of the Genoese and Defender of the People") was the ruler of the Republic of Genoa, a city-state and soon afterwards a maritime republic, from 1339 until the s ...
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Durazzo family The Durazzo Family is a noble Italian family of Albanian origin who came from the city of Durrës in Albania. The Durazzo family assisted the Republic of Genoa on the development of many cities. Durazzo Family gave nine "Doge" to the city of Geno ...


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17th-century Doges of Genoa 1585 births 1668 deaths {{Italy-noble-stub