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View Tree for Lloyd CagnolatiLloyd Cagnolati (b. 18 February 1918, d. 12 August 2001)

Lloyd Cagnolati (son of William P. Jr Cagnolati and Haydee Cecile Poche) was born 18 February 1918, and died 12 August 2001. He married Clara Adele Sevin on 14 August 1941 in St James Parish, daughter of Frank Joseph Sevin and Marie Virginie Steib.

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I received a letter from Lloyd February 21, 1992 giving me information on the Cagnolatti Family. Here is a copy of the letter from him transformed to this book. "Dear Andrella: This is Bill Cagnolatti's father , Lloyd Cagnolatti who is writing at Bill's request. What I believe will be a long letter and some copied material attached. I wish I knew more specifically what information your are seeking, and I will do my best to give you want I deem pertinent. If you need further information, do not hesitate to write me. I'm sorry I took so long to answer you, but my files are not at my apartment, but at my old house where my daughter reside. I have been forgetting to pick up the material. I'm getting so absent-minded in my old age that I could hide my own Easter eggs! My father and mother were William Pierre Cagnolatti, Jr., and Hayde Porche'. My grandparents were William P. Cagnolatti, Sr. and W.P.C., Sr. was educated in Frances and later married N. Gaudet, as she was the oldest of 3 daughters (no sons), They obtained the possession of the Gaudet Plantation in upper St. James on the west bank. This is where my father was born and reared. We do not know why or how the Jefferson Parish (West Bank, near St Charles Parish) plantation was disposed of. However, my son Joe is interested in this part of its history and will investigate it some day in the Jefferson Parish courthouse. First , the information I do not have. I do not have anything on Marie Evelina Cagnolatii Gaudet, or Judge Jerome Gaudet, nor Oscar Cagnolatti, nor of Josephine Cagnolatti. Desbordes, nor Antonia Cagnolatti Delacroix. Yes my grandfather William P. Cagnolatti, Sr. (m. Nizida Gaudet) was the one in the battle of Canal Street in 1874. (he was born in 1852). My great-great grandfather was a Captain in the Calvery of La. Militia, his co. was called the "Chasseurs of Jefferson" (literally "Chasers", Act. Hunters"). His brother joined his co. See Attachment "A". It was discovered in the local library by my eldest grandson. Next attachment is from the book "The Large Slave holders of La. 1860" Pub 1864. They barley had enough slaves to qualify for inclusion in this book, with 52 slaves. (Min. was 50). One had 4 children and one had 7, and I don't know which is which, as they were both listed as "A. Cagnolatti" not "A" and "P. C." (Pierre?). See Attachment "B" (3 pages). We must assume my grandfather, Wm. P.C.,Sr. was still in Jefferson Parish in 1874, but left and married shortly after. Going back one generation to A's & P's parents, we find Pedro Canolat married Magdelena Giroud April 7, 1808, widow of Juan Marie Cosse' (Spanish Priest & government then). If you looked for this, you probably could not find it because it was spelled "Qunionatti". Pedro was born in La Sept. 1, 1926. His parents were Antoine Canolati (The spelling changed to two "t's" about 1840-1850 and Marie Pesana of Modena, Italy. Her parents were Andres Giraud (Girod) and Jaun Negrier. (I have a grandson named Tony age 14, quite coincidentally). A side note here: (the black sheep surfaces) a friend of Bill's was reading a book on the History of La Art, he found a reference to "Cagnolatti", no first name , family connection unknown, who stole a find painting, was jailed and died in cell. I was believed that his Mulatto Mistress received the painting but it was never found. He had a taste for art anyway. I can give you a run-down of my father's siblings, hopefully in order of birth, although I cannot give you dates: 1. Inez C., married Septime F. Poche, S., Irwin Whitney, d., Pauline. (Septime is my mother's uncle). 2 Eva C., married Dale Ellis, one daughter died in infancy. 3. Noelie C., married George Long, d. Nizida, s. George, Jr., d. Delores. 4. Elise C., married James Ellis (Bro. of Dale). one son James Jr., 5 William P.C., married Hayde Poche', d. Wilba, married Paul Bougeois, Phyllis, married "Tarzan" Andry, Lloyd (me) married Clara Sevin ( I hope Bill give you the information on mine). Mae Evelyn C., married Burnet Fenger, d. Mary, d. Denise, s. Robert P. (Married Julie?) Bruce C. died 1984, married Johnnie Reeves, 6 daughters one son. Theophile "Cane" (pronounced "Con") C., married Corine Poche' ( a distant cousin of my mother). 7. Louis A. C., unmarried, nickname "Touine". Sincerely , Lloyd Cagnolatti P.S. have you seen a copy of the "PERSAC" map (1852). You can find the plantation in Jefferson Parish W. Bank just below St. Charles Parish. Map can be found in libraries, public building, some homes (mine) it says A. & P. Cagnolaty.

I received a letter dated February 21, 1992 from Lloyd Cagnolatti. Lloyd had done some research on the Cagnolatti's himself. I had inquired about some of the information he had found and this is some of what he sent to me:
We found in Encyclopedia Italian, in the book of Biographies section, an interesting story of Bartholomeo Cagnolatti, dating back to about 1300 A.D. We do not have any information to span 4 centuries, but you will find this interesting, would make a good novel or movie. See Att. "C" 5 pages. It was in Italian, of course, and a young priest from Viet Nam, who studied 5 years at the Vatican, was kind enough to translate it for me. Alternate spellings given are Canholatus, Canheolatus, Canolati, Cagnolato. The first two indicated that the name may go back that far, but we do know the name goes back to before 1300 A.D. we also know that he was a son of Lord Uberto, who died in 1320. Bart. C. was listed as a "Chierico", which literally translate as "Cleric", but in Italian can also mean-well educated person. C. Was a physician, astrologer, and magician. The story sounds like a wild fairy tale. The seat of the church was not in Rome at the time, but in Avigon, France, and John XXII was Pope. Note that the 1320 spelling, Cagnolati is the same as that of Pedro (Pierre) Cagnolatti who came from Italy and applied for title to his plantation in Jefferson Parish. 1932.

CAGNOLATI, BARTHOLOMEY --A Milanese cleric, son of certain "Lord Uberto" who was already dead by September 1320. C(agnolati) lives on in the memory of posterity due to his involvement in an unclear affair of necromancy connected in some way with the accusations of magical practices and witchcraft brought against Matteo Visconti and his children during the trials of heresy held for the ghibellin gentlemen of Milan by the pontifical curia in the first twenty years of the XIV century. In fact, almost all the material for C's bibliography comes from the depositions that he gave before an investigating commission established in Avigon by Pope John XXII and consisted of cardinals Bertrando del Poggetto and Amaud of Via and the chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, Pierre Texier. The choice of the ecclesiastics indicates-as Biscaro notes-the desire of the pontiff to entrust the entire affair to persons that enjoyed his full confidence and who knew how to act with utmost discretion; it also testifies to the seriousness of the situation and the importance which John XXII attached to it. Towards the middle of October of 1319, C. who found himself "in the village of Panhano"gh (Pagnano, near Asso), where he was hiding to avoid imprisonment due to his insolvent debt, was presented with an order from Matteo Visconti to present himself at the palace for a meeting. Matteo, having received C. in the presence of judge Scotta da San Geminiano and a physician, Master Antoino Pelancane, showed him a small silver statue of a man with the features of the Pontiff John XXII on whose forehead were the words "lacobus, Papa Lohannes", and whose chest was a cabalistic symbol (which later on was identified as the sign of the planet Saturn) and the name of one of the evil spirits, Amaymon, who had his home in the East.

Matteo had decided to put a curse on the pope and wanted to know if C. would be willing to cooperate. The cleric , being invited to perform, according to the rituals of necromancer that he knew so well, the subfumigationes (fumigations) on the little statue - perhaps worried about his rapports with the church, if the affair became known-sought to excuse himself in every way, reasoning that he did not possess the called "Mappello". Not really satisfied by these words, Visconti sent the cleric away rather rudely, making him understand that if he ever revealed to anyone what was said or done during the meeting he would pay for it with his life.

C. returned to Pagnano and decided to inform the pope so that the pope could protect himself from the danger threatening him: he got in touch with one of the principal exponents of the Milanese anti-vixcontinian faction, Simone Della Torre, who he knew was devoted to the papacy and to whom he revealed everything together with the request to alert the roman curia. Della Torre hurried to inform the curia at Avigonon ad from here he sent C. the order to come to present himself. In the meantime Matteo Visconti had sent for C. for another meeting. C. was received by Visconti and was informed by him that he wished to entrust the little statue to him so that he could have it "fumigated" by vemoese necromantic P. Nani. Although knowing that he was in a dedicated situation, C. preferred once more to refuse the proposes giving the reason of his poor health and thus incurring the anger of Matteo. At the end of the year the cleric began the trip to Avigon where he was called. On the way, however, he made a side trip to Milano, with the intention of procuring news on the latest development on the affair. At Milan he had a meeting with Judge Scotto da San Geminiano, from whom he learned that the curse had been completed on the little statue according to all the regulations.

Due to the lack of documentation, we do not know when and following what other business C. arrived Avignon. We do know however that he was already there at the beginning of 132: In fact, on 9 February he was interviewed by the pontifical investigation commission, in the presence of Gerardo de Lalo, notary of the Holy Roman Church, who took notes of the authenticated the acts of the interview. However, there was evidence that as soon as he arrived in the pontifical city, C. had an audience with John XXII at which there were also present, according to a hypothesis of Biscaro, Bertrando del Poggetto, Amaud de Via and the same Gerardo de LaLo. Both the Pope and the commission as a whole believed the deposition of the milanese cleric whose presence in Avignon was kept secret probably to protect the witness from eventual retaliation by Matteo Visconti.. Furthermore, it was in Avigonon that C. was entrusted with the task of following closely the obscure maneuvers by the milanese gentlemen and to keep the curia informed. Auto- biographical letters of cardinal Napoleon Orsini were given to him to justify his trip to France. Provided with these, C. returned to Italy at the end of February and beginning of March and retired to his home in Pagnano. But events did not wait long to happen. In March, guards headed by Cossugo and Bertramino Prendebon: he was led by force to Scotto, da San Germinano who ordered immediate incarceration. C. remained in prison for forty-two days, brutally treated, until he was freed thanks to the pressures and the interest of some of his wealthy and influential friends who paid 2,000 "Fiorini" bond.

A few days after his release, C. received, on 16 May from Galeazzo, son of Matteo Visconti, an order to present himself in Piacenza. He was well received by Galeazzo and stayed with him for sometime, following him to lodigiano for the siege of the castle of Maleo and again to Piacdnza. After Galeazzo apology for the treatment inflicted on C. In Milan during the previous Lent, the cleric then had a private meeting, C. came to Milan two more times in order to procure the necessary poisonous extract of Mappello and to take delivery of the little statute of John XXII.

At the end of July he succeeded in disappearing together with the object of the curse, fleeing Piacdnza and (as it seems reasonable to suppose) crossing moderate (through Asti where the legate Bertarando del Poggetto was organizing a fight against the Lombardy ghibellin) and passed into France to seek refugee at Avigon. And here, for the second time, he presented himself to the investigating commission to be interviewed (11 September 1320). To prove his points, C. showed the Visconti; two dated 15 and 19 May respectively, to persuade him to go to Placenza; the third, without date, to exhort him to bring to completion his understanding.

He mentioned the names of people that had assisted him at the different phases of the investigation and the torture that he had been subjected to by order of Judge Scotto da Vigevano.

The commission as a whole considered the bersion provided by C. as credible, m the credibility of which could be verified easily in Milan, given the notoriety which C. must have enjoyed both as a physician and as a specialist in astrology and magic. On the other hand, the friendship which bound the Milanese cleric to Simone Della Torre render legitimate and hypothesis that he was guelp and a supporter of the faction traditionally against Visconti; a hypothesis confirmed by the fact, when C. was recorded for the first time in the documents noted by us, in 1319, he was listed as an outlaw of the Commune of Milan and very likely already at that time- in the area near the territories between incino and Lecco, in which territories it was affirmed that precisely during those years guelph revolt took against Visconti and Carcano, Parravicini and Bermareggi.

After the second deposition of Cagnolatti before the commission, the only reference to the presence of the milanese cleric in Avignon was established by a receipt of payment issued by the apostolic Treasure in May 1327. There are however, valid reasons to identify Cagnolatti as the anonymous beneficiary of a series of payments issued by the apostolic treasury for the end of October of 1320 to 24 May 1328, at the rate of about 138 Fiorini per year. In recording the amount disbursed, however, the pontifical treasurer avoided to note the an me of the beneficiary but indicated only the prelate who had given order for the payment, Cardinal Amaud de Via. Such precautions and discretion with which the roman curia sought to hid the presence of Cagnolatti in Avignon which lasted until at least the beginning of the summer of 1328, could probably be explained by the necessity both to protect the cleric from eventual retaliations by Viscont, and to keep under immediate control a witness of primary importance. Magic and de monism were wide spread enough in XIV century and the accusations of idolatry and of magic turned up frequently in the investigative acts of the inquisitors; and the same John XXII had ordered a series of contex there is no surprise at all about the credibility given to Cagnolatti by the pontifical authority with regard to the diabolical practices attempted by Visconti against the pope nor the mention about Dante Alighieri, given the profound knowledge of astrology possessed by the Florentine poet, his famous foresight, his perceptions of nature and the attributes of the demon. Nor is it unlikely, given the rapports that bound the ghibellin courts of northern Italy, that Galeazzo Visconti had invited Danet to Piacenza, with the intention of entrusting to him the task that Cagnolatti had refused the first time. The rest, the condemnation of Dante by Bertrando del Poggetto could be put in connection with his supposed participation in witchcraft attempted against the pope.

In the volumes of the depositions of the witness in the processes of here say held against the
Visconti between 1321 and 1323, the name Cagnolatti occurred only once when to confirm of the principal accusations against Matte Visconti, he recalled being arrested and tortured only because he wanted to go to Avignon. Probably the reason for this silence of Cagnolatti as a witness is based on the principle of reserving to the end the most serious accusation, in the event, which did not happen, that the developments of the war would lead to the downfall of Matteo and Galeazzo Visconti, or both in the forces of the Church, or that in the investigating processes against them; Specific circumstances were about to emerge which could substantiate Cagnolatti's account.

More About Lloyd Cagnolati and Clara Adele Sevin:
Marriage: 14 August 1941, St James Parish.

Children of Lloyd Cagnolati and Clara Adele Sevin are:
  1. William Cagnolati.
  2. Frank Cagnolati.
  3. Joe Cagnolati.
  4. John Cagnolati.
  5. Guy Cagnolati.
  6. Eva Cagnolati.
  7. Yvonne Cagnolati.
  8. Claire Cagnolati.
  9. David Cagnolati.
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