The House of Thurn und Taxis
Ser Homodeus de Tazzo, lived in the vicinity of St.Joannis Albi around 1251. He had issue:
- A1. Montinus
- A2. Rugerius Delaytus, +1322/33
- B1. Guariscus
- C1. Joannes=Cabajus, living 1359
- C2. Baldus, living 1365
- C3. Rogerius, who lived in Bergamo and +ca 1401, was probably father of:
- D1. Filippus=Zentillinus de Taxis de Cornello, +ca 1439
- E1. Joannes, living 1439
- E2. Ser Rogerius, +1465/73
- F1. Magister Zentilinus de Taxis de Cornello, notary 1454-77, +ca 1511
- G1. Evangelista, +ca 1540; 1m: Lucia de Busis; 2m: Cecilia N
- H1. Augustinis, a canon in Bergamo, +after 6.10.1548
- H2. Innocentius de Tassis de Cornello, Burgher of Bergamo, was involved in the postal concession in Füssen, +1542; 1m: ca 1546 Benvenuta de Taxis (+1576); 2m: N von Leikirchheim
- I1. Johannes Baptista de Taxis, "le Colonel", *1552, +k.a.Bonn 1588, bur Köln
- I2. Prudentia
- I3. Lucia, +young
- I4. Juliana; m.Philipp von Taxis
- I5. Lucia; m.1571 Ferdinand von Taxis
- I6. [illegitimate] Franciscus, living 1541
- H3. Cassina; m.Alessandro di Calepio
- H4. Maddalena; m.Piligrinus de Busis
- H5. Antonia; m.Bernardo de Lulmo
- F2. Ser Rafael, notary 1455/83
- F3. Gabriel, notary 1455/76, +ca 1495
- B2. Benedictus=Feracius, +1350/3
- C1. Plazius=Gazottus de Tassis de Cornello, benefactor of the church of Camerata, +ca 1399
- D1. Vistallus=Crottus, living 1399
- D2. Pasinus=Mutius de Tassis de Cornello, living 1414
- E1. Pietro=Mutius de Tassis de Cornello, lived nr Camerata, +ca 1450
- F1. Antonius Tonolus=Amorottus de Tassis de Cornello, lived in Camerata, +1472/5
- G1. Benedictus, +after 5.3.1475; m.Joannina N
- F2. Pietro, living 1479
- F3. Alessandro de Tassis de Cornello, burgher of Bergamo, a merchant, +ca 1485
- G1. Benedictus, a burgher of Bergamo, living 1478
- G2. Christophorus Sandri, papal "Maestro di Corriere, Magister cursorem Venetorum" in Rome, "nobilis et egregius vir, +ca 1488
- G3. Gabriel Sandri, "Camerae apostolicae Magister Caballariorum", a banker in Rome, +ca 1538
- G4. Jacobus, burgher of Bergamo, "mercator egregius", +ca 1529
- G5. Dominicus, +ca 1478
- H1. Gabriel, procurator for his cousin Bishop Aloysius; m.Benaglia dei Conti di Sanguineto
- G6. Augustinus, a burgher and councillor of Bergamo, papal general postmaster (*1451, +1510), bur Bergamo; m.Cattarina N
- H1. Dominicus, a merchant in Zanica, +1538, bur Bergamo; m.Elizabetta Rotta
- H2. Aloysius, Bp of Macerata, etc, *1463, +murdered at Redona 1520; he had an illegitimate daughter:
- I1. Adriana; m.1547 Niccolo di Adraria
- H3. Pierandrea, a councillor of Bergamo, +ca 1543, bur San Spiritu, Bergamo; m.Orsola degli Alzani, bur with her husband
- I1. Cecilia; m.Antonius di Locatelli
- I2. Julia, living 1543
- H4. Ludovica, living 1544; 1m: Augustino di Rota; 2m: 1545 Hieronymus di Marentiis
- F4. Joannes, living 1480
- G1. Gabriel, +1508; m.Ippolita Comara, from Venice
- H1. Bernardo Tasso, *Venice 1493, lived in Paris 1528, took part in the campaign on Tunis, a poet, +at Ostiglia 1569, bur San Paolo, Ferrara; m.1536 Porzia de' Rossi, from Pistoia
- I1. Torquato, +1542
- I2. Torquato Tasso, a burgher succesively of Padua, Bologna, Ferrara, Mantua and Naples, *Sorrento 1544, +Rome 1595, bur there at San Onofrio
- I3. Cornelia, *1536/7; 1m: Marzio Sersale; 2m: Giovanni Ferrante Spasiano
- H2. Lucia, +after 15.11.1519; m.Paolo di Spilimbergo
- H3. Bordelisia, a nun in Columellis, *1508, +1567
- F5. Franceschina, +after 24.7.1489, bur Bergamo
- F6. Malgarita, living 1489 in Terzo
- F7. Caterina, living 1489
- F8. Isabella, living 1489
- F9. Lucia, living 1489
- E2. Antonio
- F1. Pasino, living 1476
- F2. Piligrinus, +at Cornello 1477
- E3. Joannes de Tassis de Cornello; for his descendants see HERE
- E4. Rogerius de Tassis de Cornello, +ca 1441
- F1. Simon, living 1477
- F2. Pasius de Tassis de Cornello, +1478/96, bur Cornello; m.before 1445 Tonola de Magnasco (+ca 1504)
- G1. Bernardo, +ca 1504
- G2. Roger, *Cornello ca 1445, +Romacolp 1514/15; m.Alegria Albricci (+ca 1514); for his descendants see HERE
- G3. Isnardus=Leonhard von Taxis, ran a postal route from Innsbruck to Ravenna, +ca 1519, bur Rome; 1m: Christina N; 2m: Caterina de Fontana
- H1. Tarsia, +ca 1518; m.NN
- H2. Elizabetta, *after 1504; m.before 15 .5.1529 Christophorus de Agazzis
- G4. Joannes von Taxis, imperial postmaster, +Pisino, Istria ca 1518; m.Maddalena N
- H1. Caterina; m.before 1535 Antonius von Taxis
- G5. Franz von Taxis, Spanish captain and postmaster, General Postmaster in Malines and Brussels, +Brussels 1517, bur there; m.Dorothea Luytvoldi (+after 1521)
- H1. [illegitimate] Simon, a canon in Liege 1510
- H2. [illegitimate] Augustinus, a canon, secretary to Emperor Karl V, +1556
- F3. Albina
- C2. Petrus, living1359
- C3. Guarisocus=Rubeus, lived in Camerata 1354; he may have been ancestor of the Venetian family of Tassis.
- C4. Joannes, living 1363
- B3. Joannes, +ca 1343
- C1. Plazzus, livign 1358
- C2. Zulianus=Guizardus de Tazzis de Cornello, +1357/65
- D1. Joannes de Tazzis de Cornello, +ca 1402
- E1. Philippus de Tazzis de Cornello, +ca 1445
- F1. Paxio, living 1408
- F2. Antonius, living 1445
- E2. Zanus=Redondus de Tazzis de Cornello, +ca 1441
- B4. Homodeus, +1350/3
- C1. Antonius, living 1356
- C2. Zulianus, living 1355
- B5. Martinus, living 1353
- B6. Baldus, living 1369
- A3. Joannes=Mazochus, +ca 1312
- B1. Paxinus=Marchus
- C1. Joannes, burgher of Bergamo, +1347/50
- C2. Marchisius, burgher of Bergamo, +1360/74; m.Elena de Guarneriis
- D1. Guariscus, living 1350
- D2. Paxinus, living 1390 in Calusco
- B2. Martinus=Mazochus, living 1342
- B3. Alexander
NOTE: The family, originally from Lombardia, was granted the office of Hereditary Postmaster to the Empire in 1595, and its various branches took full advantage of the postal monopoly.
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Last updated 26th August 2001