Iacopo or Jacopo (I) Barozzi (died ) was a
Venetian nobleman and official. He served as
Duke of Candia for the Venetian Republic.
Life
Iacopo Barozzi was born in Venice, in the parish of
San Moisè. Beginning with
Karl Hopf in the 19th century, several modern historians held that in the aftermath of the
Fourth Crusade, Iacopo seized the Aegean islands of
Santorini and
Therasia
Therasia, also known as Thirasía ( el, Θηρασία), is an island in the volcanic island group of Santorini in the Greek Cyclades. It lies north-west of Nea Kameni, a small island formed in recent centuries by volcanic activity and thus mark ...
, ruling them as their lord until his death , when he was succeeded by his son,
Andrea. This has been refuted in the later 1960s, when it was shown that Barozzi rule over Santorini can be documented only from the early 14th century on, with Iacopo's grandson,
Iacopo II Barozzi
Iacopo, or Jacopo (II) Barozzi (died 1308), was a Venetian nobleman and the first lord of Santorini in the Cyclades. He also occupied several high-ranking colonial positions for the Venetian Republic.
Life
Iacopo Barozzi was the firstborn son of ...
.
Iacopo was registered in the
Great Council, he was
Vassano's ambassador. In 1238, Iacopo Barozzi together with Romeo Querini concluded a treaty with
al-Kamil
Al-Kamil ( ar, الكامل) (full name: al-Malik al-Kamil Naser ad-Din Abu al-Ma'ali Muhammad) (c. 1177 – 6 March 1238) was a Muslim ruler and the fourth Ayyubid sultan of Egypt. During his tenure as sultan, the Ayyubids defeated the Fifth Cr ...
,
Saladin
Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سهلاحهدین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...
's nephew, that stipulated the construction of a
fondaco for commercial exchanges and a mutual prohibition of acts of piracy against each other. He owned a house in
Tyre in 1243.
From 1244 to 1245, he served in the high gubernatorial office of
Duke of Candia, in the
Venetian colony of
Crete
Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, ...
. He is last attested , and probably died at about that time.
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1240s deaths
13th-century Venetian people
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Dukes of Crete
Ambassadors of the Republic of Venice