Iacopo or Jacopo (I) Barozzi (died ) was a

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nobleman and official. He served as

Duke of Candia This is a list of the rulers and governors of the island of Crete throughout its history. Antiquity Crete was conquered for the Roman Republic by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus in 69 BC and united with the Cyrenaica in the Roman province, p ...

for the Venetian Republic.

Life

Iacopo Barozzi was born in Venice, in the parish of San Moisè. Beginning with

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in the 19th century, several modern historians held that in the aftermath of the

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, Iacopo seized the Aegean islands of

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and Therasia, ruling them as their lord until his death , when he was succeeded by his son,

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. 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,

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'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

, in the Venetian colony of

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. He is last attested , and probably died at about that time.

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