Guglielmo Tocco


Guglielmo Tocco was the governor of the Greek island of Corfu in the 1330s and the founder of the Tocco dynasty.
Guglielmo was born the son of Pietro Tocco, a notary in Melfi, in the Angevin Kingdom of Naples. In 1330/1 he was named governor of Corfu by Philip I of Taranto.
He was married twice. By his first marriage to Giovanna Torelli he had one son, Pietro Tocco, seneschal of Robert of Taranto and Count of Martina Franca. By his second marriage, to Margaret Orsini, the daughter of John I Orsini, Count palatine of Cephalonia, he had four children: