 The title of Marquis of Geraci was awarded in 1436 to the 7th Count of Geraci, Giovanni I Ventimiglia , 1st Marquis of Geraci, by the Aragonese Crown, ruling in Sicily since the Sicilian Vespers, 1282.Date in which they were called to push out the French Angevin rulers, imposed after 1266 by the Roman Catholic Pope capricious favors, on the Sicilian people, a former Norman descendants kingdom since about 1130.Giovanni I Ventimiglia (1383–1475), eighth count of Geraci (from 1405); Marquess of Geraci from 1436; also Lord of Castelbuono, Tusa, Gangi, San Mauro (San Mauro Castelverde), Pollina, Caronia (from 1412), Cefalù, Sciacca, Termini Imerese, Count of Montesarchio, Bitonto, Casamassima, Serracapriola, Castellamare di Stabia, Orta Nova and Magliano, Baron of Ciminna..., Grande Ammiraglio del Regno (Grand Admiral of Sicily Kingdom), Viceré di Sicilia, (Viceroy of Sicily), 1430–1432, Governatore del Regno di Napoli (Governor of Naples Kingdom), 1435, Viceroy of Duchy Athens and Neopatria, 1444, Regent of Naples Kingdom, 1460, Captain General of the Church, 1445 and 1455.