Joannes Baptista Defranceschi, Supanus of Gologorica (d. by 1764)

The family

No family chart is drawn for this person, and that is a statement about the data rather than about them. This archive records kin against a name — the tree on a name page gathers everyone who shares it, so it may hold one person's dates beside another's wife. Rather than hand a reader a family that might not be this person's, the chart is drawn only where the relationship is recorded person by person, which today means the direct line.

What the archive knows

He is the ŽUPAN of Gologorica — the headman the absentee lord governed the village through — and until this morning the archive had him only as a title attached to somebody else's death entry. > 26 Aprilis 1764 · «patrini fuere D.ⁿᵘˢ Matheus Flegar, et Domina Supana Joanna vidua defuncti D.ⁿⁱ Supani JOANNIS BAPTISTÆ DEFRANCESCHI» (doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, M01068918, the first text page of «Liber Baptizatorum II», in the hand of Marcus Bancich.) ⭐ His own parish writes his forename pair. His widow's burial in 1774 calls him only «Supani Joannis Defranceschi», and this archive's note on her row says in as many words that the full form had to be carried in from the Gračišće registers. It no longer does. ⭐ And he was dead by 26 April 1764 — the burial of his widow gives no date for him at all. This is the only terminus the archive has for him.


style	«Supanus» · «Dominus»
wife	Joanna, died 20 April 1774, aged ninety circiter, who survived him by at least ten years and kept the title «Supana»
house	46 — the second Defranceschi house on the 1770 list, whose struck first head is a «Joannes»
grave	his family's «Arca» under the floor of the parish church, where his widow was buried and where his daughter Margaretta was laid «in Arca Parentuum» in 1783
death	⚠ not found. Before 26 April 1764, and the obit calendar has been swept without him.

⚠⚠ THREE MEN OF THIS NAME, AND NO ROW IS MERGED. One was dead by August 1709, with a wife Lucia and a daughter Vittoria — not this man: Lucia was still «moglie di q. Gio: Batta» in 1720, and a man does not leave two widows who each outlive him by decades. A third is carried as «the elder, died 1767» on a tree and nothing else. ⚠ A man dead in 1767 cannot be «defuncti» in April 1764 — but a tree year is an interval, not a point, so the collision is recorded and left open rather than decided. ⚠ No parentage, no children attached. The Zagreb librarians' account makes the župan's son Gian Pietro the Belgian lord's tax-collector, and the arithmetic of that join is already flagged on his wife's row. Nothing is hung on it here. --- ⭐⭐ Within the hour, two more constructions. The forename pair is not one reading.


26 Apr 1764	M01068918	«Domina Supana Joanna vidua defuncti D.ⁿⁱ Supani* *Joannis Baptistæ Defranceschi»
24 Sep 1765	M01068919	«Joanna uxor defuncti Supani* *Joannis Baptistæ Defranceschi»
14 Feb 1767	M01068921	«Joanna uxor defuncti Supani* *Joannis Baptistæ Defranceschi»

(doc — DAPA ZM34K-214, all three in the hand of Marcus Bancich; told in full here.) ⭐ And the office did not stay in the house. On 16 December 1764, eight months after he is first entered «defuncti», the register christens a daughter of «Supani Martini et Mariæ jugalium Udovcich Gospood» — and Josephus Defranceschi stands as her godfather. ⚠ What the register shows is a title held by another man at that date, not a succession list. ✔ A fourth construction, 5 February 1770. > «patrini fuerunt Simon Bugich ex territorio Boruti, et Joanna vidua defuncti Joannis Baptistæ Defranceschi, hujas» (M01068926) The forename pair now stands on four entries — 1764, 1765, 1767, 1770 — and his widow is a godmother in all four, at about eighty-six in the last.