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Title: Count
Title in succession: 9th
Date created: 1743
Grant by: Grand Master Pinto de Fonseca
Granted To: Ignazio
Moscati-Falsoni-Navarra (dormant)
Rep: Moscati-Falsoni-Navarra
Remainder to: his descendants and successors to the Bahria Estates in
perpetuity
Present Holder: Salvatore
Consoli-Palermo-Navarra (never registered with Comm. of Privileges)
Note: Count of Bahria was annexed to the grantee's estates, where
this title may not only be inherited by the
Counts first son, but also by a stranger who may come to own the Bahria
Estates.
Abeyance: Passed into abeyance 1978 and brought out 1983 by the
Com. of Privileges
The title of Count
was recognised to the Bahria estates owned by the grantee. These estates,
purchased by Navarra family from the Calava family in 1599, were raised to
the dignity of a feudal tenure. The title is inheritable by any stranger
in blood who may come into ownership of the Bahria
estates.
The first grantee was Ignazio
Moscati-Falsoni-Navarra by the Grand Master Pinto de Fonseca on the 16th
May 1743. The next holder was Iganzio’s eldest daughter, Maria Teresa, who
married Antonio Stagno, 3rd Count of Casandola (Sicilian
Title).
The Count of Bahria who emigrated to Sicily was in
possession of various entails, he was very short of money. Because of his
near bankrupt state, his emigration could hardly have caused any economic
problems on the island.
Elopement sometimes occurred when the
parents refuse to give their daughter permission to marry. The
circumstances were however different in the case of Maria Teresa, daughter
of the Count of Bahria. Her lover, the Conventual's Chaplain Fra. Samuele,
the head of the Grand Master Pinto's pages, had used his friendship with
the Count as a means of obtaining entry to the Palazzo in Gudja. In
October, 1754, the couple eloped taking with them valuables estimated to
be worth 30,000 scudi and embarked on a French privateer destined for the
Levant. There, they settled in the house of the French consul in Corfu.
Through an intermediary, the Count of Bahria informed the Governor of
Corfu of the robbery, and the couple were subsequently arrested and
imprisoned. As Corfu came under Venetian jurisdiction, the couple were
sent to Venice for trial. Here the 'long-haired Samuele' is said to have
died. Maria Teresa was placed in a convent but eventually succeeded in
making her way to Syracuse where she is said to have married a certain
Stagno to whom she bore a son, Giuseppe. This however, was more likely a
polite fiction and the child was really the son of Fra.Samuele. The Count
of Bahria, her father, subsequently settled down in Messinam, where his
descendants perished in an earthquake about one hundred and fifty years
later.
The patent of Bahria differed from all previous diplomas of
nobility because it empowered the title holder to nominate as his
successors either a relative, or even a stranger in blood (etiam
extraneos).
The House of Stagno-Navarra carried two titles to 1908,
where the 5th Count of Bahria and his family perished in the Messina
earthquake of 1908.
The title was succeeded by the 5th Count
sister’s son, Raimondo Palermo-Navarra. This too went out of the Palermo
family to the Consoli family in 1962, though the Title of Casandola went
into abeyance.
The present holder Salvatore
Consoli-Palermo-Navarra is the 9th Count of Bahria and lives in
Sicily.
A short version of the family tree of the
Counts of Bahria
Raimondo Palermo Navarra, 6th Count of Bahria
(1861-1913), married Teresa Palermo
1. Francesco Palermo Navarra,
7th Count of Bahria ( 1895-1962), married 1927 to Jeanne Scicluna, and
dsp.
2. Adele dei Conti Palermo Navarra (1900- ) married 1926 to
Salvatore Consoli
2.1. Gio Francesco Consoli Palermo Navarra, 8th Count
of Bahria ( 1927-78), married 1955 to Rosa Anna Scavone.
2.1.1.
Salvatore Consoli Palermo Navarra B.ec., 9th Count of Bahria
(1962-
2.1.2. Gabriella Consoli (1956-, married Stefano
Cappelli
2.2. Vittorio Consoli (1930-, married 1960 to Eleonora
Olivieri
2.2.1. Monica Consoli (1961-
2.3. Alberto Consoli (1934-,
married 1976 to Marina Bottani
3. Carlotta Palermo Navarra (1902- ),
married 1935 to Umberto Ferrara
3.1. Orazio Ferrera
3.2. Augusto
Ferreri
4. Elisa Palermo Navarra (1904- ), married 1939 to Anthony
Aquilina
4.1. Joseph Raymond Aquilina (1944-
4.2. Myriam Aquilina
(1946-
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