Giovanni Battista Platamone

This profile needs a better in-depth background check, some sources say that he is son of Bernardo, others mention son of Ferdinando. Could be a mistake in pronunciation or reading of old documents, or maybe there were two Giovanni Battista in the Platamone family with important roles.

As per 'Teatro Genologico":

• Giovanni Battista/Gio Battista/Battista held a doctorate in law but was also employed by King Alfonzo to carry out various services for the crown, and held the office of Viceroy.
• He procreated with his first wife Andrea Leontini-San Basilio: Giulio Sanchio and Giovanna (who married Gio Antonio Leontini-San Basilio)
• With his second wife Agata Paterno he has Gio Ferdinando, Fra Pietro knight of Malta, Antonio (clerico), Bernardo and Luiggi Platamone.

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However, Battista Platamone was one of the most important figures of this family: he graduated in law from the University of Padua, from 1420 he occupied various positions of a fiscal and administrative nature, including that of viceroy, accumulating many noble titles and feuds, to the point of being able to lend money to the Crown. - I Platamone a Catania by News Sicilia

Di Blasi writes about him: "... from the archives of this family that he was a knight of Catania, and was born in that city by Bernardo Platamone; and he also had two brothers: Pietro, who was a knight of the order of St.John of Jerusalem, and Antonio, who was bishop of Malta since the year 1412, and was a Benedictine monk. As a boy Battista fell into the sea, and he ran out of submerging. He was then sent by his father to Bologna to learn the law, where he received a doctoral degree in law. Returning to Sicily full of legal knowledge, he practiced the profession of lawyer with great reputation; and King Alfonso promoted him in 1420 to the respectable degree of tax lawyer of the great court, which he exercised for six years until the year 1426, in which he renounced this office at will of the same king, who appointed him as an intimate advisor, and secretary. We know that he was sent ambassador to various pontiffs, to Queen Joan of Naples, and to other princes of Europe, and that he always obtained as much as his king desired. These services rendered to the crown made him deserve, that he be made perpetual judge of the great court: something that so far has been without example, and also the office of president of the kingdom, and then that of viceroy owner. Recalling this knight's praise, that finding himself King Alfonso exhausted in money for the exorbitant expenses that he was entitled to do on account of the war in the kingdom of Naples, he generously sold the castle and the territory of Aci his own for the sum of ounces. nine thousand, which correspond to twenty-two thousand five hundred crowns, and thus succeded his sovereign. The Catanese writers fix the death of this knight around the year 1448 ".

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In Sicily from the son of Ferdinand, Giovan Battista, viceroy in 1435 and 1440, the branch of the barons of Acicastello, Redini, Risichilia, Amidara, up to those of the Curca begins. The son of Giovan Battista, Antonino, begins the branch of the barons of the Cugni and Incobao, while the other son, Giovanni Ferrando, begins the branches of the barons and princes of Cuto and the branch of the barons of Pòjura (aka Poiri) in territory of Paternò, from which the Platamone di Piazza derive.

http://www.heraldrysinstitute.com/cognomi/Platamone/Italia/idc/3111...