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Gaspare Sommaripa

Lord of Paros

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ5526590 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gaspare Sommaripa (died 1402) was a Lord of Paros by right of his wife.

Marriage and issue

He married in 1390 Maria Sanudo, lady of Paros (died 1426), and had Crusino I Sommaripa, Lord of Paros, and Fiorenza Sommaripa, wife of Giacomo I Crispo, eleventh Duke of the Archipelago.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gaspare Sommaripa” is lord of Paros. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gaspare, Sommaripa and Lord, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1402, 1390, 1426—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1350. For this dossier, Gaspare, Sommaripa and Lord is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “lord of Paros” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5526590. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1402, 1390 and 1426.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gaspare Sommaripa” 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.