Thomas II de Gadagne

Thomas II de Gadagne, known as Thomas the Magnificent (1495, Florence - 1543, Avignon) was an Italian banker active in France.

Life

He inherited a large fortune from his uncle Thomas I de Gadagne as well as solid commercial and financial positions. He increased this fortune, allowing him to lend to major French nobleman and even Francis I of France himself, who made him a counselor and 'maître d'hôtel ordinaire' in his household.[1] In 1537 he founded the Saint-Laurent-des-vignes hospital, with its pavillon Saint-Thomas for plague sufferers.[1] He commissioned The Incredulity of Saint Thomas for his uncle's burial chapel.

Thomas II let out the hôtel de Gadagne to the Pierrevive family from 1538. His son Guillaume and Thomas III later became its owners from 1545 to 1581. He also owned the Beauregard estate in Saint-Genis-Laval, the Saint-Victor la Coste estate in the Comtat and the hôtel de Sade in Avignon.[1] He married Peronette Berti, with whom he had five children.[1]

Bibliography
  • Luigi Passerini, Genealogia e storia della famiglia Guadagni, Florence, Cellini, 1873, 171 p. (notice BnF no FRBNF31064839)
  • Georges Yver, De Guadagniis, mercatoribus Florentinis Lugduni, XVI, Paris, Cerf, 1902, 115 p. (notice BnF no FRBNF31677741)
  • M. Rocke, « The Guadagni of Florence : Family and Society », Medieval and Early Moderne Italy, 1955
  • Richard Gascon, Grand commerce et vie urbaine au seizième siècle : Lyon et ses marchands, Paris & La Haye, Mouton, coll. « École pratique des hautes études. Sixième section. Sciences économiques et sociales. Centre de recherches historiques. Civilisations et sociétés » (no 22), 1971, 2 vol., 1001 p. p. (notice BnF no FRBNF35371690)
  • Marie-Noëlle Baudouin-Matuszek et Pavel Ouvarov, « Banque et pouvoir au XVIe siècle : la surintendance des finances d'Albisse Del Bene », Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, t. 149-2, 1991, p. 249-291
  • Édouard Lejeune, La saga lyonnaise des Gadagne, Lyon, Éditions lyonnaises d'art et d'histoire, 23 mars 2004, 192 p. (ISBN 978-2841471539)
  • Michel Francou, Armorial des Florentins à Lyon à la Renaissance, Éditions du Cosmogone, 1er mai 2009 (ISBN 978-2810300204)
  • Patrice Béghain, Bruno Benoît, Gérard Corneloup et Bruno Thévenon (coord.), Dictionnaire historique de Lyon, Lyon, Stéphane Bachès, 2009, 1054 p. (ISBN 9782915266658, notice BnF no FRBNF42001687)

References
  1. (Francou 2009, p. 27).
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