Gastone (8 April 740-26 November 796) was the Marshal of the House of Galbaio and later the Chancellor of the Republic of Venice.
Biography[]
Gastone was born on 8 April 740 to a lowborn family of Catholic Italians, and he was appointed as the marshal of the House of Galbaio by the future Doge Giovanni of Venice in 770. He was later replaced, giving him a dislike of his lord, but he gained a great opinion of his lord in 787 when he replaced Alarico as chancellor. In 795 he married Matasuntha Ursingi after she was divorced from Bishop Enzo of Krk. He died on 26 November 796 at the age of 56 from depression.