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The family's public role declined again after that dogeship, although the brothers Giacomo, Giovanni and Bartolomeo fought in the military operations leading up to the Battle of Lepanto (1571). Other members of the family went on to administrative roles, such as Marcantonio Celsi, count and captain of Sebenico (1708) and then supervisor of ...
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.
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]
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]
When Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade in 1095, he also sent envoys to the main Italian maritime republics for naval assistance to the crusading armies. [1] The Republic of Genoa was the first to respond, sending a small squadron east in 1097, which joined with the Byzantine navy in the Crusade's early operations, [2] apparently followed by smaller squadrons and individual ships. [3]
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 ]
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
Before his election as doge, Dandolo occupied various public positions including Podestà of Bologna and Padua, and commander of the Venetian naval units.The news of his election to doge reached him while he was fighting in military action against Istria and Trieste, which expanded into an open war in the following year, also involving Venice's perennial enemy, the Patriarchate of Aquileia and ...