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to serve until December 1356. With Guerao Gullielm De Sidot and Corrado Spadafora, the captain and

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, he joined his younger brother Sancho (Sanciolo) in a pro- Angevin revolt in 1357. In March 1359 he fell out with Anjou and helped his cousin the king put down what remained of the insurrection. He was rewarded with the lordship of Termini and the county of

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, which had been his maternal grandfather's, in 1364. From his nephew Mattiotto, the son of Sancho, he inherited the county of

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in 1369. In 1371 he became Baron of Militello, his own father's barony, and San Marco. From 1365 to 1368 he acted as Grand Chancellor of

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, replacing Enrico Rosso. He left as his heir his son

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. A fortress Vinciguerra built in 1366, the Torre Vinciguerra, in

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, still bears his name; he also built a castle on the top of Gioiosa Guardia.

Sources

*Ghisalberti, Alberto M., ed. ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: III Ammirato – Arcoleo''. Rome, 1961. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vinciguerra Daragona Italian barons House of Barcelona (Sicily) Medieval chancellors (government) 14th-century Italian nobility