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The Doge of Venice (/ d oʊ dʒ / DOHJ) [2] [a] was the doge or highest role of authority within the Republic of Venice (697 CE to 1797 CE). [3] The word Doge derives from the Latin Dux , meaning "leader," and Venetian Italian for “duke”, highest official of the republic of Venice for over 1,000 years. [ 4 ]
The following is a list of all 120 of the Doges of Venice ordered by the dates of their reigns. For more than 1,000 years, the chief magistrate and leader of the city of Venice and later of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge , a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux .
The House of Orseolo (Italian:) was a powerful Venetian noble family descended from Orso Ipato and his son Teodato Ipato, the first Doges of Venice. Four members of the Orseolo family became Doges, Commander of the Venetian fleet, and King of Hungary. They reconstructed St Mark's Basilica and the Doge's Palace after the revolution.
Portrait of the Loredan family, by Giovanni Bellini, 1507, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Leonardo Loredan, 75th Doge of Venice, ruled from 1501 until his death in 1521 and was a member of the Loredan family, one of the Republic's most prominent noble houses. [1] His four sons are depicted wearing the typical regalia of Venetian noblemen.
Risen Christ with St. Andrew and members of the Morosini family (Vincenzo, his sons Andrea and Barbon, and wife Cecilia Pisani) by Tintoretto (1518–1594), on display in the Morosini family chapel in San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice. Michele Morosini (1308–1382) was doge from June 1382 until his death in October of the same year.
Antonio Venier (circa 1330 - 23 November 1400) who was Doge of Venice from October 1382 until his death. Andrea Venier (fl. 15th century) a provveditore of Venetian Albania; Lorenzo Venier, a Dominican friar, was appointed Archbishop of Zadar, Croatia, on 19 Jan 1428 and was succeeded in 1449. He had previously been in the bishopric of Modon. [1]
The House of Donà are an old patrician family of Venice which produced three doges of Venice. The family has existed since at least the late twelfth century. [2] Until the sixteenth century, the family were merchants. [3] During that period, they bought land, which supported the family through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [4]
Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore, Venice. The family and name Cornaro are said to descend from the gens Cornelia, a patrician family of Ancient Rome.The Cornari were among the twelve tribunal families of the Republic of Venice and provided founding members of the Great Council in 1172.