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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 ...
Morosini took office at a time when relations between Venice and two of its long-time allies, Byzantine Greece and the Normans, were beginning to deteriorate. [5] After the death of his father, emperor Alexios I Komnenos, in 1118, John II Komnenos refused to confirm the 1082 treaty [6] (a chrysobull) with the Republic, which had given it unique and generous trading rights within the Byzantine ...
Andrew III of Hungary. Andrew III the Venetian (Hungarian: III. Velencei András, Croatian: Andrija III. Mlečanin, Slovak: Ondrej III.; c. 1265 – 14 January 1301) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1290 and 1301. His father, Stephen the Posthumous, was the posthumous son of Andrew II of Hungary although Stephen's older half brothers ...
Tomasina with her son Andrew, depicted by a 18th-century painting. After his first wife and infant son died around 1263, Stephen the Posthumous left Ravenna for Venice. He was an exiled prince from the Árpád dynasty and a claimant to the Hungarian throne as the posthumous son of the late King Andrew II of Hungary, but his paternity was disputed by his brothers born from their father's ...
Pisani family. The House of Pisani is a Venetian patrician family, originating from Pisa, which played an important role in the historic, political and economic events of the Venetian Republic during the period between the 12th and the beginning of the 18th century. The principal male line of the family, namely the Pisanis of Santo Stefano ...
Giovan Francesco Morosini (1537-1596) was a cardinal, Bishop of Brescia and Apostolic Nuncio in France. Son of Pietro Morosini and Cornelia Cornaro, nephew of Cardinal Luigi Cornaro and Cardinal Federico Cornaro. [3] Coat of arms of Michele Morosini (1308 – 1382) Morosina Morosini-Grimani (1545–1614), dogaressa of Venice by marriage to Doge ...
The Barbaro coat of arms. 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. [2]: 150 [3]: 275.
Bartolomeo Bragadin poet, died in 1507; his tomb is located on the counter-façade of the church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in Venice; Marcantonio Bragadin (1523–1571), soldier; Marcantonio Bragadin (1591–1658) cardinal; Matteo Bragadin (1689–1767), politician; Vincenzo Bragadin (1691–1762), bishop; Giovanni Bragadin (1699–1775 ...