Orzocorre Torchitorio I (also spelled ''Orzocco'' and ''Torgodorio''; died circa 1089) was the
Judge of Cagliari
The kings or ''judges'' (''iudices'' or ''judikes'') of Cagliari were the local rulers of the south of Sardinia during the Middle Ages. Theirs was the largest kingdom and for the eleventh through twelfth centuries contested the supremacy on the ...
(''rex Sardiniae de loco Call.'') from about 1058 to his death. At his time, the throne was customarily alternated between the
Torchitorio de Ugunale and
Salusio de Lacon families. Obviously, Torchitorio was of the former.
Torchitorio was judge at a time when
Western monasticism
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was being introduced into
Sardinia
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as part of the
Gregorian reform
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of the
Papacy
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.
Cagliari
Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...
, like the other ''
giudicati
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'', was placed under papal and
Pisan
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authority. Torchitorio is thus one of the first judges of Cagliari about whom anything is known. He severely increased donations to the church and lent support to the monks of
Monte Cassino
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who were arriving on the island to bring economic, technological, and religious renewal. Despite this, his attention to the church, the only portion of his policy handed down to us, has led to him being labelled "publicly useless" by certain historians.
[Nowé, 173.] He was directed by
Pope Gregory VII
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to force the clergy of the
Archdiocese of Cagliari
The Archdiocese of Cagliari ( la, Archidioecesis Calaritana) is a Roman Catholic archdiocese centred on the city of Cagliari. It holds the Primacy of Sardinia.[Constantine
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. Vera survived him and was alive in 1090. Their other sons were Peter, Sergius, Orzocorre, Gonario, and
Torbeno. All died around 1125 except the last, who briefly usurped the throne from his brother, and was last heard of on 13 February 1130.
Notes
Sources
*Manno, Giuseppe (1835).
Storia di Sardegna'. P.M. Visaj.
*Nowé, Laura Sannia. ''Dai "lumi" dalla patria Italiana: Cultura letteraria sarda''. Mucchi Editore: Modena, 1996.
Judges (judikes) of Cagliari
1080s deaths
Year of birth unknown
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