Emmanuele Darmenia was a trader from Valletta, but it’s hard to say what he traded in.
Emmanuele is one of my maternal great-great-grandfathers.
Author: Antoine P. Borg
It’s taking time to uncover original sources for Paolo Darmenia’s life. There’s a lot that we can infer from other sources though.
He is one of my maternal great-great-great-grandfathers.
Little is known about Giuseppe d’Armenia except that he was a judge, and married 4 times.
He is my 7 x great-grandfather.
We know little about Grazio Leonardo d’Armenia because few records survive.
Little is known about Bartolomeo d’Armenia, the 8th Senior Lusignan male heir, mainly because of the lack of records.
Little is known about Gio Leonardo d’Armenia except that he was an Ambassador in 1541.
Paolo Darmenia worked with the British Forces at their arsenal in Malta. Valletta-born, he lived in St Julians and Sliema.
Marieta de Patras was the Greek lover of King John II of Cyprus. She bore him a son who reigned as King James III of Cyprus. She died in Padua after Ventian nobles kept her in captivity so they could control Cyprus.
Anthony Darmenia, known and remembered as Nannu Twanny, was a Maltese pharmacist.
We know little of Gerard, except that he was the son-in-law of the ? Emperor of the West. Records from this time are sparse.