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Giovanni Cossa

grand seneschal of Provence

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ3171433 ↗
Source-derived summary

Giovanni or Jean Cossa (probably 29 March 1400 – 30 October 1476) was lieutenant general of Provence, seneschal of Rene of Anjou and grand seneschal of Provence.

See also

Martyrdom of Saint Maurice and his Comrades

References

Bibliography

(in French) Jean Favier (2008). Le roi René. Fayard. p. 742. ISBN 978-2-213-63480-7.

Franca Petrucci (1984). "Cossa, Giovanni". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian).

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Giovanni Cossa” is grand seneschal of Provence. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Giovanni, Cossa and grand, 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—1400, 1476, 2008, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1400. For this dossier, Giovanni, Cossa and grand is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3171433. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1400, 1476, 2008 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Giovanni Cossa” 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.