1562–1609 · Shipowner · Admiral
Gaspar de Franceschi
Recorded at Omiš in 1590 as owner of the warship Vascello and later admiral of the fleet. The family chart gives him dates, 1562–1609, and a wife.
The record
Inferred
Born
1562
per the family chart
Recorded
1590
Omiš (Almissa)
Owned
the warship Vascello
Rank
Admirale
Wife
a contessa Zanon
Died
1609
The life
Two independent accounts put a Gaspar de Franceschi at Omiš in 1590 with a warship and later the rank of admiral. The Omiš family chart adds the dates and the marriage, and places him eighth in a line reaching back to Zadar in the 1300s.
The world around him
Assembled automatically from the timeline for the years of his life.
1582Pazin baptisms begin — the oldest register in the county1590Gaspar de Franceschi, warship owner at Omiš
Where he came from
Omiš
Almissa
A former pirate town at the Cetina mouth, and the Dalmatian family's first seat — a De Franceschi owned a warship here by 1590.