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Birth:          ABT 1064 
Death:          1128 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I_of_Torres
Constantine I[1] (c. 1064 – 1128) was the giudice of Logudoro. He was co-ruling by 
1082 and sole ruler by 1113. His reign is usually said to have begun about 1112.

He was the son of Marianus I, with whom he co-reigned, and Susanna de Thori.
1113/1115[edit]

Sometime between 1113, the first year in which Constantine is recorded as sole ruler, 
and 1115, a Tuscan and Lombard fleet, led by the Republic of Pisa, sailed into the 
harbour of Porto Torres following the successful liberation of the Balearic Islands from 
Saracen domination. Indeed, one of the leaders of this brigade was Saltaro, 
Constantine's son. According to the Liber maiolichinus, Constantine was recognised as 
re chiaro e molto celebrato ("clear, most-celebrated king") over the entire island of 
Sardinia after this.

Improved knowledge[edit]

Constantine continued the monastic reforms and expansions of his predecessors' 
reigns. He firstly supported the Cassinese establishments, but his favour soon shifted 
to the Camaldolese and Vallumbrosan houses. By 1125, Camaldolese foundations were 
the most numerous on the island and Vallumbrosan ones could be found in every 
province of Logudoro. The reasons for such strong support of monasticism, the 
papacy (including the Gregorian reforms), and the suzerainty of the archdiocese of 
Pisa were probably the advancements brought by closer ties to the mainland and the 
technological, economic, agricultural, educational, and religious knowledge that the 
monks brought.

Expanding religious interest[edit]

During Constantine's reign, the noblemen, especially those of the Athen and Thori 
families, first began to expand their religious interests and participate in the 
ecclesiastic expansions and structural reforms that characterised the twelfth century 
in Sardinia founded a series of churches.

Churches founded during Constantine's reign[edit]
S. Maria del Regno (Ardara)
S. Pietro (Bosa)
S. Michele (Plaiano, Sassari)
S. Michele de Salvenor (Ploaghe)
S. Maria Coghinas (Coghinas)
S. Nicolas di Trullas (Semestene)

Constantine himself, in fulfillment of a vow, founded the Basilica di Saccargia in 
Codrongianus, Sassari, where he was later buried.

Family[edit]

It appears that, in 1116, Constantine married Marcusa de Gunale of the Giudicato of 
Arborea. Other later documents cite a wife named Maria de Orrubu, but whether or not 
these were two different women or the same woman is unknown, though the former 
hypothesis seems most probable. According to the Libellus iudicum Turritanorum, 
Marcusa was a widow with two sons at the time of her marriage to Constantine. 
Together with him she had a son named Gonario. After her husband's death, she went 
to Sicily, where she founded a hospital named after S. Giovanni at Messina and took 
up service for God there until her death.

Parents
____ Marianus I ()
DE THORI Susanna ()

Siblings
TORRES Constantine I (ABT 1064 - 1128)

Marriage To DE GUNALE Marcusa ()
    m. 1116 

Notes


Children by DE GUNALE Marcusa 
TORRES Gonario II (ABT 1117 - ABT 1185)

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