Mesocco

Mesocco was an Alpine lordship of the Sax-Misox branch of the house of Sax, centred on Mesocco Castle in Val Mesolcina. In 1337 the family’s power was near its fourteenth-century height.

Baron Albert von Sax-Misox helped found the Grey League in 1395, but his murder in 1406 began the family’s decline. In 1480 Mesocco and Soazza joined the League, and the last baron sold the castle and demesne to Giacomo Trivulzio of Milan. In 1526 the Three Leagues ordered the castle abandoned and moved the valley administration to Roveredo.