Nicholas II Sanudo (or ''Niccolò'', also called Spezzabanda; died aft. 1374) was the Lord of Gridia (a fief in

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) and eighth

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as the consort of his cousin Florence Sanudo, with whom he reigned until her death.Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 549 Nicholas was a son of Guglielmazzo Sanudo, Lord of Gridia. Florence's first marriage was to Giovanni dalle Carceri, but he died in 1358, without issue. She tried to remarry, first to the Vignoso, Genoese Lord of Chios, and then to Nerio I Acciajuoli, the future

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, but both potential husbands were vetoed by the

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, which kidnapped her and brought to

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. There she was forced to marry in 1364 her cousin Nicholas Spezzabanda. By his cousin, he left only daughters:

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, who inherited

, and Elisabetta Sanudo.

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Ancestry of Sultana Nur-Banu (Cecilia Venier-Baffo)
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