Castello di Ghedi

History

In the absence of historical documents that can report the dating of a first building, and the development of the primitive walled enclosure, its construction is conventionally circumscribed around the twelfth-thirteenth century: in fact, it was in this period that the town of Ghedi, recognized as a Communitas, and therefore no longer as a small group of individuals, began to assume importance in the chessboard of the Brescian territory. The juridical, economic-administrative, and political organization of the town became increasingly consolidated, so much so that, from the work of the Ghedi archivist Angelo Maria Franchi, the Annals, several purchases of houses, land, water rights, and large plots of arable fields are noted. Since, therefore, the town of Ghedi was in full growth, a clash between the newborn municipality and the influential abbey of Leno, about the management of some state-owned lands, was configured as inevitable; the querelle was finally amicably resolved in 1366 also thanks to the mediating activity of the nobleman from Brescia Giovanni Chizzola. …