Costantino (I) di Lacon, judge of Torres

Events

Date of Birth: probably about 1064.

The date is given by Putzulu.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1128.

Place of Death: Torres.

The date and place are given by Putzulu. Besta (vol. 1, p. 101 fn) states that Costantino must have died after 13 September 1127 and not later than 1128. Sanna gives 1127.

Place of Burial: la chiesa della SS. Trinità di Saccargia.

The place is given by Putzulu.

Relationships

Father: Mariano di Lacon Gunale, judge of Torres.

This relationship is given by Putzulu and by Tola.

Mother: Susanna de Thori.

This relationship is given by Putzulu. Tola gives Susanna Gunale or de Zori.

Spouse: Marcusa de Gunale.

This relationship is given by Putzulu, citing the Libellus iudicum Turritanorum. He notes that later sources give Costantino’s wife as a Maria de Orrubu. Scano makes these two wives the same person, but Putzulu states that there is no proof of this. Tola notes that Marcusa was from the dynastic family of Arborea. Sanno argues that Costantino first married Marcusa de Gunale, then married, or had as a concubine, Maria de Thori, then married Maria de Orrubu. Sanno states that Maria de Thori was Gonario's mother.

Children:

Gonario II, judge of Torres, married Maria, daughter of Ugo “Ebriaco”.

References

Besta, Enrico. La Sardegna Mediovale: Le Vicende Politiche dal 450 al 1326. (Bologna, reprint of the Palermo, 1908-9 edition).

Putzulu, Evandro. “Costantino di Torres” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 30 (1984).

Ronzani, Mauro. “Gonario di Torres” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 57 (2001).

Sanna, Mauro G. “La Cronotassi dei Giudici di Torres” in La civiltà giudicale in Sardegna nei secoli XI-XIII. Fonti e documenti scritti, (Atti del Convegno di Studi. Sassari-Usini 17-18 marzo 2001), Sassari 2002, pp. 97-113.

Sanna, Mauro G. “Osservazioni cronotattiche e storiche su alcuni documenti relativi all’espansione cassinese nella diocesa di Ampurias fino alla metà del XII secolo” in Castelsardo: Novecento anni di storia (Rome, 2007).

Tola, D. Pasquale. "Costantino I re di Torres" in Dizionario Biografico degli Uomini Illustri di Sardegna. (1837). [Vol. 1, pp. 242- 245]