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The Venetian patriciate (Italian: Patriziato veneziano, Venetian: Patrisiato venesian) was one of the three social bodies into which the society of the Republic of Venice was divided, together with citizens and foreigners. Patrizio was the noble title of the members of the aristocracy ruling the city of Venice and the Republic.
The House of Contarini is one of the twelve founding families of the Venetian Republic, [1] the apostolic families, and were and remain through extended family consanguinity present in the Veneto's population, represented in over twenty auxiliary and cadet noble branches [citation needed] that include ranks currently among European sovereign, royal and aristocratic descendants.
This category contains the families who were part of the Venetian nobility or patriciate, the social class that ruled the Republic of Venice. Subcategories This category has the following 33 subcategories, out of 33 total.
Coat of arms of Jacopo Tiepolo. Jacopo Tiepolo (shortly before 1170 – 19 July 1249), also known as Giacomo Tiepolo, was Doge of Venice from 1229 to 1249. He had previously served as the first Venetian Duke of Crete, and two terms as Podestà of Constantinople, twice as governor of Treviso, and three times as ambassador to the Holy See.
The Zulian family (or Zuliani [4] [5]) was an old Venetian noble family. The place from whence the Zulian came to Venice is unclear; however, the family is considered one of the first that moved to Venice , and thus one of the oldest Venetian and Italian noble families.
Giovanni Dario was born in 1414 to a Venetian family established in Kastelli Pediadas on Crete; [2] [3] His father, Marco, was a merchant who often travelled abroad, to Venice and Constantinople, often accompanied by his brother, Giovanni, and eventually by his own sons, Giovanni and Zaccaria, and their brother-in-law, Giorgio Pantaleo. [4]
In 1211, the Falieros were the first Venetian settlers in the Duchy of Candia (now Crete), starting a profitable trade with the other Mediterranean states. The family's decline began in 1355, when the Doge Marino Faliero tried to realise a coup d'état in Venice and establish a monarchy, but failed and was decapitated. [6]
Giovanni's father Pietro II Orseolo was the Doge of Venice, and his mother was Maria Candiano.. In 1000 he was sent to Constantinople to work out the details of a plan his father and the Byzantine Emperor Basil II had been working on.