Giovanni Cossa
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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.[1]
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Biography
In 1433, Joanna II entrusted him with the role of conservator of the crown forests in Naples. René of Anjou, king of Naples and heir of Joanna II, fought unsuccessfully against Alfonso V of Aragon from 1438 to 1442 to assert his rights. In 1441 René granted him the lands and barony of Grimaud, in Provence.
In 1442, when King René was besieged in Naples by Alfonso of Aragon, Cossa took command of Castel Capuano, to resist the Aragonese forces. King René, not wanting to expose Cossa and the others, sends him an emissary to authorize him to leave the citadel against ten thousand pieces of gold. The same year, having arrived in France, he became lieutenant general of Provence, as well as seneschal of King Rene and Grand Seneschal of Provence. He enlarges and embellishes the castle of Grimaud.
In 1447, having returned to France, he participated in the assembly gathered in Lyon to end the schism between Pope Nicholas V and the antipope Felix V and re-establish peace within the Church. The following year he was sent as an emissary-ambassador to negotiate the religious agreement.
In 1448 he became a knight of the Order of the Crescent. In 1453 he was a member of an embassy in Venice. In 1459 he landed at the head of troops with John of Calabria, son of King René, in Italy. He is appointed grand seneschal of Sicily. In 1466 it welcomed the ambassadors sent by the Catalans to King Rene to offer him the crown of the Kingdom of Aragon. In 1470 King Rene appointed him chamberlain, grand seneschal and lieutenant of Provence.
Cossa died on 3 October 1476 in Tarascon, more precisely "the sixty-sixth year, the sixth month and the sixth day of his age, the year of our salvation 1476, the 5th of the nones of October", according to funerary inscription placed on his tomb.
Having a particular devotion to Martha of Bethany, he decided to be buried in the Royal Collegiate Church of Santa Marta in Tarascon. The tomb will be built by Francesco Laurana.
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