List of rulers of Seborga
The following is a [[chronological]] '''list of rulers of [[Principality of Seborga|Seborga]]''' from 954.
==Gubernors of the ''[[Castrum]] Sepulchri''==
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| align="center" colspan="4" bgcolor="#87C389" | '''954: Donation ''cum mero et libero imperio'' of the ''[[Castrum]] Sepulchri'' by Count Guy of [[Ventimiglia]] to the [[Lérins Abbey]]
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! Reign start
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| Alberto, abbot of [[Lérins Abbey|Lérins]]
| 954
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==Princes-Abbots of Seborga==
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| align="center" colspan="4" bgcolor="#87C389" | '''1079: Seborga becomes a principality recognized by the [[Papal States]] (represented by [[Pope Gregory VII]]) and by the [[Holy Roman Empire]] (represented [[Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Henry IV]])
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! Name
! Reign start
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| ?
| 1079
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| Edouard
| ?
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| [[Bertrand de Blanchefort]]
| 1156
| Also sixth [[Grand Master (order)|Grand Master]] of the [[Knights Templar]]
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| [[Guillaume de Chartres]]
| 1209
| Also fourteenth [[Grand Master (order)|Grand Master]] of the [[Knights Templar]]; commander of the [[Fifth Crusade]]
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| vacant''
| 1219
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| [[Thomas Bérard]]
| 1256
| Also twentieth [[Grand Master (order)|Grand Master]] of the [[Knights Templar]]
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| [[Ponce Lance]]
| 1364
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| [[Giovanni Lascaris of the Counts of Ventimiglia]]
| 1394
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| [[Giovanni Pellizon]]
| 1403
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| [[Giorgio Lascaris of the Counts of Ventimiglia]]
| 1424
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| [[Michele Lascaris of the Counts of Ventimiglia]]
| 1452
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| [[Nicola Lascaris of the Counts of Ventimiglia]]
| 1469
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| [[Raniero Lascaris of the Counts of Ventimiglia]]
| 1493
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| [[Augustine Grimaldi]]
| 1512
| Also Regent of the [[Monaco|Signory of Monaco]] to [[Honoré I, Lord of Monaco|Honoré I]] from 22 August 1523 to 14 April 1532
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| ''vacant''
| 1532
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| [[Francesco Bugi]]
| 1534
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| [[Ilario de’ Pescheriis]]
| 1542
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| [[Nicola Isoard di La Turbie]]
| 1553
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| [[Gerolamo da Perugia]]
| 1563
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| [[Basilio de Vallauris]]
| 1583
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| [[Onorato da Taggia]]
| 1601
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| [[Cesario da San Paolo]]
| 13 October 1611
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| [[Teodoro da Grasse]]
| 1617
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| [[Giuseppe de Meyronet]]
| 1653
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| [[Giuseppe Antonio Biancheri]]
| August 1707
| From this date the sovereignty of Seborga is transferred from the [[Lérins Abbey|Cistercian Abbot of Lérins]] to that of [[Bordighera]]
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| align="center" colspan="4" bgcolor="#87C389" | '''From 30 January 1729 Seborga becomes a Principality with the Patronage of the [[Kingdom of Sardinia]]<ref>Therefore the King of Sardinia is not Prince of Seborga. This office continues to appertain to the Cistercian Abbot of [[Bordighera]]</ref>
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| ''vacant''
| 1746
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| align="center" colspan="4" bgcolor="#87C389" | '''From 17 March 1861 Seborga becomes a Principality with the Patronage of the [[Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)|Kingdom of Italy]]<ref>Therefore the King of Italy is not Prince of Seborga.</ref>
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| ''vacant''
| 1861
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| align="center" colspan="4" bgcolor="#87C389" | '''From 2 June 1946, Seborga is ''de facto'' annected to the [[Italian Republic]]<ref> ''De jure'', however, it conserves his independence</ref>
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| ''vacant''
| 1946
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==Princes of Seborga pretenders==
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! colspan="4" bgcolor="red" | Princes ''pro tempore'' of Seborga<ref>This office is now purely folkloristic and has no legal power; in fact these are most appropriately "[[pretender]]s"</ref>
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! Name
! "Reign"
! Notes
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| [[Giorgio Carbone]] <small>(Giorgio I of Seborga<ref name="Giorgio-I">Giorgio Carbone mantanied the "I" even if in 1424 there had been another Prince Giorgio, the Abbot Giorgio Lascaris of the Counts of Vintimiglia</ref>)</small>
| 14 May 1963 – 24 September 1995
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| [[Giorgio Carbone]] <small>(Giorgio I di Seborga<ref name="Giorgio-I"/>)</small>
| 24 September 1995 – 25 November 2009
| Elected for life
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| ''vacant''
| 25 November 2009 - 25 April 2010
| Regency of Alberto Romano
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| [[Marcello Menegatto]] <small>(Marcello I of Seborga)</small>
| from 25 April 2010
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==References==
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==See also==
* [[Principality of Seborga]]
==External links==
* [http://www.principatodiseborga.com Official website of the Government of the Principality of Seborga]
* [http://www.esonet.it/News-file-print-sid-699.html Detailed history of the first years of the Principality of Seborga]
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