Leonardo VII Tocco

Leonardo VII Tocco
Prince of Montemiletto[a]
Portrait of Leonardo VII Tocco by an unknown artist
Prince of Achaea
(Neapolitan nobility)
Reign31 January 1701 – 31 March 1776
PredecessorCarlo Antonio Tocco
SuccessorRestaino di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart
Born1 January 1698
Montemiletto
Died31 March 1776 (aged 78)
Naples
SpouseCamilla Cantelmo Stuart
IssueCarlo Maria di Tocco
Maria Beatrice di Tocco
Restaino di Tocco
DynastyTocco
FatherCarlo Antonio Tocco
MotherLivia Sanseverino

Don Leonardo VII Tocco (1 January 1698 – 31 March 1776), later also known under the full name Leonardo di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart, was an 18th-century Italian noble, serving as the Prince of Montemiletto and the titular Prince of Achaea from the death of his father Carlo Antonio Tocco in 1701 to his own death in 1776.

Throughout his life, Leonardo reached high honors and positions in service to the papacy, the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Naples. He served as the captain of the cavalrymen of the papal guard, an Imperial Counsellor of State in the Holy Roman Empire and a field marshal and vicar general in the Kingdom of Naples. In 1738, Leonardo became one of the first knights of the Order of Saint Januarius. He assumed the full last name 'di Tocco Cantelmo Stuart' after marrying Camilla Cantelmo Stuart, whose family claimed descent from the Scottish and English royal House of Stuart.

  1. ^ Shamà 2013, pp. 59–61.


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