House of Cotoner

Some went to Ascoli, where they founded and built the Castle of Monte Pastillo [it] in Sicily, where they held the principality of Castelnuovo and Santa Caterina, keeping the memory of their Signoria del Cotoné in the Republic of Siena.

[7] Bernardo Cotoner is first documented in the Kingdom of Majorca when setting up a "beneficio" for the Parish of Santa Eulalia and then again on 1363, acquiring a farmhouse ("alqueria") in Valldemossa.

On July 23, 1370 Letters patent were issued by Peter IV of Aragon confirming tax exception as well as their nobility for them participants in the conquest and his successors.

Antonio had been acting in the Res publica of his country, having demonstrated special talents and deserving the trust of the sworn representatives of the city and the Kingdom of Majorca to perform an important commission.

[1] Of special relevance, is the historic and close relationship of this family with the Knights Hospitaller also known as Order of Malta with the ascension of Raphael and Nicolas Cotoner to the sovereign dignity of Grand Masters.

Location of the Kingdom of Majorca in relation to the other territories that comprised the Crown of Aragon in the 15th century.
Coat of Arms of Raphael y Nicolas Cotoner , Grand Masters of the Order of Malta in the 17th century. Chapel of Saint George , or the Langue of Aragon, Saint John's Co-Cathedral , in the island of Malta .