page_title: House of Cotoner
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: House of Cotoner / History / Origins
context_page_description: The House of Cotoner is a noble house distinguished in the service of the Spanish Monarchy well into the 20th century.
context_section_description: The house's origins go back to the Italian city state of Republic of Siena (Italy), also known as "nobile del Cotone'".
  In the 13th century, 1202, as Montepulciano took Oath of fealty to the Republic of Florence, documented in Florence, contained the signatures of the "nobile del Cotone'".
  It is also documented that in 1237 Abonito del Cotoné was chosen Podestà of Prato.
  When the Cotoner family grew in numbers, some of its members left Tuscany and established branches in various other places. Some went to Ascoli, where they founded and built the Castle of Monte Pastillo and others to Sicily, where they held the principality of Castelnuovo and Santa Caterina, keeping the memory of their Signoria del Cotoné in the Republic of Siena.
  One of those branches was to become one of the so-called "Nou Cases" (meaning Nine Houses) in the Kingdom of Majorca, for there were nine "nobilis et Antique familiae'". These nine families were also incorporated into the Nobility governing and legislative bodies, like all the other houses, of the Kingdom but differed by the quality of their lineage.
caption: Location of the Kingdom of Majorca in relation to the other territories that comprised the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century.