Gambacorta, Chiara, 1362-1419

LC control no.	n 2017053217
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Gambacorta, Chiara, 1362-1419 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Chiara Gambacorta, Beata, 1362-1419 Clare Gambacorta, Blessed, 1362-1419 Gambacorta, Clare, 1362-1419 Gambacorta, Tora, 1362-1419 Theodora, of Pisa, Blessed, 1362-1419 Thora, of Pisa, Blessed, 1362-1419
Associated country	Italy
Birth date	1362 1362
Death date	1419 1420
Place of death	Pisa (Italy)
Field of activity	Monasticism and religious orders
Affiliation	Dominicans Convento di San Domenico (Pisa, Italy)
Profession or occupation	Dominican sisters
Found in	"La beata Chiara conduttrice," 2016: t.p. (Chiara Gambacorta) p. vii (Beata Chiara Gambacorta) p. 3 (leader of a group of Dominican sisters from the monastero Santa Croce in Fossabanda who in 1385 founded a new Dominican community in Pisa) p. 63 (died in 1419) p. vii (Beata Chiara Gambacorta) index, p. 216 (Gambacorta, Chiara (Tora, Clara)) VIAF: (DNB hdg: Gambacorta, Chiara, 1362-1419; BNF hdg.: Gambacorta, Chiara, 1362-1420) Saints and blesseds page : saints and beati of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, WWW: (Bl Clare Gambacorta: Blessed Clare Gambacorta (born Victoria, and also known, confusingly, as Bl Theodora or Thora of Pisa) was born in 1362--probably in Venice, where her family (the most important in Pisa) were in political exile. Family returned to Pisa when she was seven; widowed at 15 and refusing to marry again, she took refuge with Poor Clares; under influence of Saint Catherine of Siena she became a Dominican, founding a convent strictly adhering to Dominican rules; after she died in 1419, her burial-place was immediately associated with miracles, and a local cult grew up rapidly) <https://saintsandblesseds.wordpress.com/?s=gambacorta> Dizionario biografico degli Italiani: (Gambacorta, Chiara: baptized Tora, probably born in Florence in 1362; hailed from an eminent Pisan family exiled in 1355, who returned to Pisa in 1369; adopted the name Chiara when she took refuge at with Sister Clares; later under influence of Carerina [i.e. Caterina] Benicasa and other eminent Dominicans, she entered the Dominican convent of S. Croce in Fossa Bandi, which due to its laxity, inspired her to found the convent of S. Domenico, commonly considered the first Dominican convent exclusively for women; died April 17, 1419, and although a cult sprang up immediately, she was not beatified until Mar. 4, 1830)