Tristan de Clermont

Tristano Chiaromonte, a French-born knight who married Catherine of Taranto, youngest daughter of Mary of Enghien and Raimondo 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:

# Raymond de Clermont (Raimondello di Chiaromonte), died 2 March 1443, leaving his inheritance to Duchess Sancia, his sister
# Sancia married Francesco del Balzo, Duke of Andria
# Margherita married Antonio Ventimiglia, Marquess of Gerace, Grand Admiral
# Antonia, alleged somewhere to have married Thomas Palaeologus, titular Despot of Morea, as brother of Emperor Constantin and heir presumptive to the throne of the Byzantine Empire
# Isabella married Ferrante di Aragona, later King of Naples