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The
Giudicato of Logudoro (also known as the
Giudicato of Torres after
Porto Torres) is a historical state which covered the northwest portion of
Sardinia from the tenth through the thirteenth century. Logudoro was one of four
giudicati into which the island was divided during the
High Middle Ages. The others were:
Gallura to the east,
Arborea to the south, and
Cagliari to the southeast.
Logudoro was the largest (and earliest known) of the
iudicati, but also the first to be swallowed up by a foreign power. It was divided into twenty
curatoriae ruled by
curatores.
History
When the
Arabs and
Berbers became aggressive in expansion and piracy in the ninth century, the
Byzantine Empire was unable to effectively defend Sardinia, so the Sardinian provincial "judges" assumed independent authority and provisin of local defence. The island became divided into four of these provinces (
giudicati), though two — Logudoro and Arborea — were combined at the start of the eleventh century. By
900, these districts had become
de facto independent states, their ruling princes usually titled as
iudices or
judikes (judges or
giudici). The first capital city was the ancient Torres (now
Porto Torres), but it was exposed to Arab attacks, and so the seat of the judgeship was transferred to
Sassari.
Logudoro only began to emerge from the fog of history during the reign of
Barisone I from about
1038 to
1073. He brought
Western monasticism to the island by requesting monks from
Abbot Desiderius of
Montecassino and in this he was supported by both
Pope Alexander II and
Godfrey the Bearded,
Margrave of Tuscany, though the
archdiocese of Pisa, thitherto chief religious influence on the island, opposed it. One the death of Barisone I, Arborea chose its own judge in
Marianus de Zori, while the Logudorese chose
Andrew Tanca.
The giudicato of Logudoro came to an end in
1259, when the giudicessa
Adelasia died without an heir. After this, Logudoro was effectively ruled by the
Genoese families of
Doria and
Malaspina, and the ruling family of Arborea. Sassari meanwhile became an autonomous city-state.
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