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Francesco III Gattilusio

Italian noble

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ16198839 ↗
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Francesco III Gattilusio was a Lord of Thasos. He was a son of Dorino I of Lesbos and wife Orietta Doria.

He married his cousin Gattilusio, daughter of his uncle Palamede of Ainos and wife Valentina N, without issue.

The traveller and antiquarian Cyriac of Ancona addressed a poem in honour of Francesco while he was visiting Thasos in January 1445.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francesco III Gattilusio” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.