Guglielmo Tocco

Guglielmo Tocco (died in Naples, 22 September 1335)^{[citation needed]} was the governor of the Greek island of Corfu in the 1330s and the founder of the Tocco dynasty.

Guglielmo was born the son of Pietro Tocco, a notary in Melfi, in the Angevin Kingdom of Naples.^{[citation needed]} In 1330/1 he was named governor of Corfu by Philip I of Taranto.^[1]

He was married twice. By his first marriage to Giovanna Torelli he had one son, Pietro Tocco, seneschal of Robert of Taranto and Count of Martina Franca.^{[citation needed]} By his second marriage, to Margaret Orsini, the daughter of John I Orsini, Count palatine of Cephalonia, he had four children:^{[citation needed]}

• Leonardo I Tocco (died 1375/1377), who became Count palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos in 1357, beginning the Tocco line that ruled over the Ionian Islands and eventually Epirus^[1]
• Nicoletto Tocco (died 1347/1354), who became a monk^{[citation needed]}
• Lisulo or Ludovico Tocco (died 1360), seneschal of Robert of Taranto in 1354^{[citation needed]}
• Margherita Tocco, who became nun at Naples^{[citation needed]}