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Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo
Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo
69th Doge of the Republic of Genoa
	In office; October 16, 1573 – October 17, 1575
Preceded by	Giannotto Lomellini
Succeeded by	Prospero Centurione Fattinanti
Personal details
Born	1503; Genoa, Republic of Genoa
Died	1579; Genoa, Republic of Genoa

Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo (Genoa, 1503 - Genoa, 1579) was the 69th Doge of the Republic of Genoa.

Biography

Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo was a member of one of the most important noble families of the Republic of Genoa, the Durazzo family, that had its origins in Albania and who arrived in Genoa around the fourteenth century, active in the commercial silk sector and fabrics. His father Giovanni was also a person who held various public offices for the republic, fueling the "weight" and prestige of the Durazzo family who, enrolled in the Alberghi of the Genoese nobility since 1528, and was affiliated to the Grimaldi family.^[1]

Grimaldi Durazzo's appointment as doge took place in a very tumultuous political and social climate. From the 1560s in Genoa the tension between the two main nobility, the "old" and the "new", was growing more and more due also to the new international political scenarios and the death in 1560 of Admiral Andrea Doria, who was never doge, was however always considered as political leader or guide in political, commercial and alliance choices of the Republic of Genoa. It is no coincidence that some Doges were "supported" or "highly recommended" by Doria himself to the electoral council, especially in the delicate phases for Genoa. In the first year of his Dogate Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo met several Italian and foreign personalities in Genoa. After the end of his Dogate, he was appointed perpetual prosecutor, however he took little part in Genoese political activity. Durazzo died in Genoa in 1579.^[2]^[3]

Giacomo Grimaldi Durazzo married in late age with Maria Maggiolo di Vincenzo, from which he had seven children:

Giovanni: married with the sister of the future doge Alessandro Giustiniani Longo,
Pietro Durazzo: Doge of Genoa
Agostino: lord of Gabiano and husband of the sister of the doge Giovanni Francesco I Brignole Sale
Lucrezia: married to a member of the noble Balbi family
Maddalena: wife of the doge Federico De Franchi Toso
Battina: married to a member of the noble Balbi family
Laura

References

^ Valenti Durazzo, Angela. I Durazzo. Da schiavi a dogi della Repubblica di Genova (in Italian). La Compagnia della Stampa.
^ Buonadonna, Sergio. Rosso doge. I dogi della Repubblica di Genova dal 1339 al 1797 (in Italian). De Ferrari.
^ "DURAZZO, Giacomo in "Dizionario Biografico"". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-07-29.