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Venetian nobility. Coat of arms of the Republic of Venice, featuring the Lion of Saint Mark. The Great Council in a voting session at the Doge's Palace, 1648. 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 ...
Patrician (post-Roman Europe) The German banker Johann Hinrich Gossler married Hamburg patrician heiress Elisabeth Berenberg, and became owner of Berenberg Bank. His descendants reached the highest positions in the "aristocratic republic", including as senators and head of state. Patricianship, the quality of belonging to a patriciate, began in ...
His four sons are depicted wearing the typical regalia of Venetian noblemen. The Venetian Patriciate 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.
B. Badoer family (19 P) Barbarigo family (14 P) Barbo family (17 P) Barozzi family (11 P) Bembo family (7 P) Bragadin family (5 P)
The Brandolini (or, in Venetian language, Brandolin, earlier de Brandoli) is a noble family of ancient Forlì origins. In Forlì the Brandolini obtained the title of patricians, while in Bagnacavallo (in the Ravenna area) they achieved lordship; a branch, starting with Brandolino Count Brandolini, distinguished itself in Veneto as feudal lords of Valmareno under the Serenissima.
The Libro d'Oro (The Golden Book), originally published between 1315 and 1797, is the formal directory of nobles in the Republic of Venice (including the Ionian Islands).It has been resurrected as the Libro d'Oro della Nobiltà Italiana (The Golden Book of Italian Nobility), a privately published directory of the nobility of Italy.
The Widmanns were a wealthy merchant family that had been inscribed into the Venetian patriciate in 1646, but its members had not yet risen to the highest offices of the Republic of Venice. [2] In 1758, however, Carlo Aurelio's maternal uncle became Pope Clement XIII, abruptly catapulting the family to power and influence. [1]
The Council of Ten (Italian: Consiglio dei Dieci; Venetian: Consejo de i Diexe), or simply the Ten, was from 1310 to 1797 one of the major governing bodies of the Republic of Venice. Elections took place annually and the Council of Ten had the power to impose punishments upon patricians. The Council of Ten had a broad jurisdictional mandate ...