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The family of Gianalvise Valmarana, portrayed with his wife Isabella Nogarola and eight of their twelve children. In 1659 the Valmarana family led by the brothers Triffone, Stefano and Benedetto was given Venetian patrician status after they paid 100,000 ducats to help fund the Cretan War. [9]
Originally wealthy commoners, the different branches of the family were only slowly admitted to the Venetian nobility. Marco Condulmer, a bread merchant, is recorded in 1297. [ 2 ] In 1381, Jacopo Condulmer of the Domenico branch was ennobled for his contributions to the treasury during the War of Chioggia in 1379.
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.
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]
The House of Barozzi was an aristocratic Venetian family that belong to the Venetian nobility. Members of the family became sailors, clerics and men of learning. They were lords of Santorini and Thirassia, and held military fiefs on the island of Crete. Members of the family were involved in the Tiepolo conspiracy against the Doge of Venice in ...
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.
Giovanni Ingegneri was born in Venice [1] to a Venetian family in 1522 or 1523. He studied at the University of Padua.From 1570 he became vicar and auditor (lawyer) of the bishop of Padua Nicolò Ormanetto, and because of this position he actively participated to the life of the university.
The Moro family was a patrician family of the Republic of Venice. [1] [2] The family gave birth to ambassadors, politicians, generals and procurators of Saint Mark, bishops, patriarchs and a doge. [3] [1] The emblem of House of Moro carved in stone, kept at the Correr Museum in Saint Mark's Square