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on 4 November 1642. Antonio also worked to further increase his family's standing in the
Italian nobility, acquiring various fiefs in Italy through purchasing them and through his marriage to his relative, Donna Porzia di Tocco, which ensured that he inherited various fiefs from his father-in-law,
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Leonardo VI Tocco (? – 26 September 1670), the eldest son. Antonio and
Leonardo appear to have quarrelled, as Antonio disinherited him from most of his titles in 1658 and 1666. In any event, Leonardo predeceased Antonio. Upon Antonio's death in 1678, his titles were inherited by Leonardo's son,
213:, who had reigned more than two centuries before Antonio assumed this style of title. He did this in exchange for his patrimonial titles of Despot of Epirus and Count Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos. This was not the same sovereign princely title held by rulers of the
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Palaiologoi uncertain and
294:. The assumption of the title of Prince of Achaea was in exchange for his patrimonial Greek titles, with Antonio and his descendants ceasing to use the titles of Despot of Epirus and Count Palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos.
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Italian nobility were Prince of Montemiletto, Prince of Achaea, Count of Monteaperti, Baron of Apice, Tinchiano, Grumo, Montefalcione, Serra, Manocalzati and Calabritto.
253:, and the eldest to reach adulthood, thus being the heir to his father's titular claims to lands in Greece, and to the fiefs his family had acquired in Italy since the loss of their Greek lands;
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