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The families were furthermore divided into several other "categories", including Ducal Houses (Case ducali, whose members had become Doges), Newest Houses (Case nuovissime) raised to the patriciate in 1381, non-Venetian patrician families, and "Houses made for money" (Case fatte per soldo, usually wealthy landowning or bourgeoisie families who ...
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 36 subcategories, out of 36 total.
Venetian noble families (36 C, 19 P) Burial sites of Italian noble families (10 C, 1 P) * Julio-Claudian dynasty (9 C, 88 P) Sicilian noble families (5 C, 12 P) A.
Determining the family's exact wealth has been deemed implausible; [59] conspiracy theories claiming the family is worth trillions of dollars have not been proven. [60] [61] The Bardi family of Florence (14th century) The Medici family, as owners of the Medici Bank, the richest family in 15th-century Europe. [62]
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy (House of Savoy). The Italian nobility (Italian: Nobiltà italiana) comprised individuals and their families of the Italian Peninsula, and the islands linked with it, recognized by the sovereigns of the Italian city-states since the Middle Ages, and by the kings of Italy after the unification of the region into a single state, the Kingdom of Italy.
Cosimo de' Medici, Florentine banker, who established his family, the Medici dynasty, as effective rulers of Florence Jakob Fugger, of the Fugger family Bindo Altoviti, famous patron of the arts, papal banker and grandnephew of Pope Innocent VIII Johann Hinrich Gossler (1738–90), of the Berenberg-Gossler family Philippine Welser, a member of the patrician Welser banking family, and the wife ...
The Barbaro family (/'bar.ba.ro/) was a patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso . [ 1 ] : 112 Various members were noted as church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.
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. Doges of Venice were elected for ...