Zuane Ivan Franceschi

…yes Proložac — the Imotski parish Listed here because it is where the Dalmatian family's own ground is. Donji Proložac is where the Franciscans of the Imotski monastery came from — the fifteen friars and six hundred people Zuane Ivan Franceschi took onto his estate at Dobrče in January 1715 — and there is a Frančeski stone in the churchyard. The registers run unbroken from 1853 to 1949, and everything from 1892 onward is digitised. R 1853–1862 Državni arhiv u Splitu…

…It is worth telling, because a local historian has now set it out from the archives at Zadar and Omiš against three centuries of it being deliberately left out. January 1715 — a refugee camp on his own land On 11 January 1715 Zuane Ivan Franceschi took onto his estate at Dobrče, today Pisak on the coast below Omiš, the whole flight of the Imotski Franciscans: fifteen friars out of the monastery at Proložac, and with them about two hundred families — some six hundred people — and their livestock. They…

…of the arci-beg Čaušević on the Vrljika — a house, a Turkish defensive tower, and eight mills. It was wrecked: the population had fled, the mills barely turned, and grain could not come down from the Bosnian hinterland across a new and skirmishing frontier. Zuane Ivan Franceschi went bankrupt on the campaign. He had no choice but to take a Venetian war galley, and off the Albanian coast near Durrës the Turkish galleys caught the fleet and destroyed it. He got away on the flagship with the war chest aboard — which is the only reason…

…of the name. It is the oldest thing this page has that is not a document — and Proložac is not an incidental village here. It is the place the whole Imotski story starts. Why Proložac and not Imotski On 11 January 1715 Zuane Ivan Franceschi took onto his estate at Dobrče — today Pisak, on the coast below Omiš — the entire flight of the Imotski Franciscans: fifteen friars out of the monastery at Proložac, and with them about two hundred families, some six hundred people, and their…

…1742–1811 — a church census of the parish, on the same film as the deaths, 587 images, film 1924277, and carrying no index at all. A Stanje duša lists a house, its head, his wife and every soul under the roof. This one begins twenty-five years after Zuane Ivan Franceschi took the town, and it runs through the whole of the generation that inherited the begluk on the Vrljika. If any single volume in Dalmatia holds the Imotski Franceschi as a household rather than as a pedigree, it is this one. A second census of 1841…

…both record a Gaspar de Franceschi at Omiš in 1590, owner of the warship Vascello and later admiral of the fleet. The chart gives him dates and a wife. Giovanni il Zuane, 1673–1741, Colonnello Governatore The same dates, to the year, as the Zuane Ivan Franceschi who sheltered six hundred Imotski refugees from January 1715, raised 250 men, took the town in July 1717 and was granted the Perinuša estate. Pietro Antonio «detto Perini», 1588–1661 This matters. The Imotski monograph derives the name Perinuša from…

…The Omiš family chart adds the dates and the marriage, and places him eighth in a line reaching back to Zadar in the 1300s. Maja Delić Peršen, ‘Obitelj de Franceschi u Imotskom od 1717. do danas’ zuane-ivan-franceschi Zuane Ivan Franceschi born died omis dalmatia Count Omiš councillor Volunteer commander documented A landowner on the Omiš coast who took in six hundred refugees and kept them for two…

…the record. January 1715: the refugees. The Ottoman line ran within sight of the Franciscan house at Prološko blato. When it broke, fifteen friars and the people of the Imotski district went over the mountain and down to the sea. On 11 January 1715 Zuane Ivan Franceschi took the whole of it onto his own land at Dobrče — today Pisak, on the coast road below Omiš: the fifteen friars, about two hundred families, some six hundred people, and their livestock. They stayed until July 1717. Two and a half years of feeding,…

…the summons, provisioned for a siege, expecting relief from the thirty thousand Ottoman troops gathered in the Duvno plain — relief that never came, because their communications had been cut. The sappers went at the base of the rock. Somewhere in that, Zuane Ivan Franceschi went through the outer wall first and put the standard of St Mark on it. And then it destroyed him. He had bankrupted himself on the campaign. The reward was the begluk of the arci-beg Čaušević on the Vrljika — a house, a Turkish tower, eight mills…

…are said to have reached Dalmatia in the fourteenth century as an influential Italian noble house, and to have established themselves at Omiš, where Gaspar de Franceschi is recorded in 1590 as owner of the warship Vascello and later admiral of the fleet. Zuane Ivan Franceschi sat on the town council here, and it was as an Omiš councillor that he pressed the Imotski refugees' case with the Venetian Provveditore Generale. His estate at Dobrč — today Pisak, along the coast — is where he sheltered them from January 1715.…

…year Gračišće baptism register begins year Zuane De Franceschi of Mione, weaver in the County of Pazin year De Franceschi house built on the Gologorica square year Zuane Ivan Franceschi shelters 600 Imotski refugees year Imotski taken; the Perinuša estate granted year Valentino Defranceschi, from Carnia, made a citizen of Fiume year Giovanni Battista Defranceschi arrives…