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Birth:          ABT 1060 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I_of_Arborea
Constantine I[1] (born in the second half of the 11th century) was the giudice of 
Arborea. He was the son of Gonario II and Elena de Orrubu. The dates of his reign are 
unknown, but he was probably in power at the turn of the 12th century. It was 
probably dominated by wars between Genoa and Pisa which lasted from 1118 to 1133.

Constantine tightened Aborea's alliance with the Republic of Pisa. His reign followed 
on the Gregorian reform of the papal church and its major effect on Sardinia. Like his 
predecessors, Constantine probably paid the annual tribute to the Holy See of 1,100 
bezants. He accepted papal and Pisan suzerainty and sponsored the expanding 
monasticism on the island. Monasticism provided much needed technological and 
economic improvements, as the monks which immigrated to inhabit the new 
foundations and the reformed old ones brought with them collections of books and 
knowledge of more efficient agricultural and construction techniques, as well as 
connections to the wider Christian world. There is some discrepancy over the 
foundation of Santa Maria de Bonarcado, but it seems likely that Constantine laid its 
foundation around the year 1100. He put it under the authority of the Camaldolese 
abbey of San Zenone in Pisa instead of the monastery of Saint-Victor in Marseille, 
which was the great monastic power in the rival giudicato of Cagliari. According to a 
charter of his grandson Barison II in 1182, he founded a monastery in dedication to 
San Nicolas di Urgen.

Following the Condaghe di Santa Maria de Bonarcado, Constantine's wife was Anna 
de Zori and he left two sons: Comita II, who succeeded him by 1131, and Orzocco.

Parents
DE ARBOREA Gonario II (ABT 1030 - )
DE ORRUBU Elena ()

Siblings
DE ARBOREA Constantine I (ABT 1060 - )

Marriage To DE ZORI Anna ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by DE ZORI Anna 
DE ARBOREA Comita II (ABT 1085 - 1147)

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