- Tristan de Clermont
Tristano Chiaromonte, a French-born
knight who married Catherine of Taranto, youngest daughter ofMary of Enghien andRaimondo del Balzo Orsini , Prince of Taranto.Documents and sources about Tristan, whose proper first name was Bartholomew, are scarce. Bartholomew Tristan of Clermont was a knight of the French family of de Clermont-Lodeve. In Italian: Bartolomeo Tristano di Chiaramonte or Chiaromonte.
Tristan became Count of
Copertino by dowry of Catherine.In
1429 Tristan divided the inheritance between his children.His children:
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Raymond de Clermont (Raimondello di Chiaromonte), died 2 March1443 , leaving his inheritance to Duchess Sancia, his sister
# Sancia marriedFrancesco del Balzo ,Duke of Andria
# Margherita married Antonio Ventimiglia, Marquess ofGerace , Grand Admiral
# Antonia, alleged somewhere to have marriedThomas Palaeologus , titular Despot of Morea, as brother of Emperor Constantin and heir presumptive to the throne of theByzantine Empire
# Isabella married Ferrante di Aragona, later King of Naples
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