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Bailo Of Negroponte
The ''bailo'' and captain of Negroponte was the representative of the Republic of Venice stationed at Chalcis (Negroponte) on the island of Euboea. The ''bailo'' played an important role as the mediator between, and ''de facto'' overlord of, the Triarchy of Negroponte, triarchs of Euboea, who had their common residence in Negroponte. The triarchies were created by the division of the island between three rulers (triarchs) after its conquest following the Fourth Crusade (1204). The Venetian language, Venetian title ''bailo'' (plural ''baili'') derives from the Medieval Latin, Latin ''baiulus''. In English, it may be translated bailiff, or otherwise rendered as bailey, baili, bailie, bailli or baillie. List of ''baili'' :Notes: ''maggiore'' = "the elder"; ''q.'' = quondam = "son of the late" *1216–???? Pietro Barbo il Zanco *1222–1224 Benedetto Falier *1250 Marino Michiel *1252–1254 Leone Sanudo *1254–1256 Paolo Gradenigo *1256–1258 Marco Gradenigo *1258 Tommaso Giustinia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Republic Of Venice
The Republic of Venice, officially the Most Serene Republic of Venice and traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and Maritime republics, maritime republic with its capital in Venice. Founded, according to tradition, in 697 by Paolo Lucio Anafesto, over the course of its History of the Republic of Venice, 1,100 years of history it established itself as one of the major European commercial and naval powers. Initially extended in the ''Dogado'' area (a territory currently comparable to the Metropolitan City of Venice), during its history it annexed a large part of Northeast Italy, Istria, Dalmatia, the coasts of present-day Montenegro and Albania as well as numerous islands in the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and eastern Ionian Sea, Ionian seas. At the height of its expansion, between the 13th and 16th centuries, it also governed Crete, Cyprus, the Peloponnese, a number of List of islands of Greece, Greek islands, as well as several cities and ports in the eastern Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jacopo Dondulo
Jacopo Dondulo ( or ; ) was a Venetian sailor, military commander, and politician in the 13th century. He played a distinguished role in the naval conflicts of the War of Saint Sabas against the Republic of Venice, leading the Venetian navy to a crushing victory at the Battle of Trapani in 1266. He served also several tenures as a member of the Great Council of Venice, as Bailo of Negroponte in 1277–1279, and as Duke of Candia in 1281–1283, where he faced the start of the Revolt of Alexios Kallergis. Biography Jacopo Dondulo is the only well-known member of his family, which resided in the parish of the Santi Apostoli, and which died out in the first half of the 14th century. As a result, he is often erroneously called "Dandolo". Service against Genoa He was born in Venice, probably in the 1210s or 1220s. In 1257, he participated in the expedition to the Levant under Lorenzo Tiepolo, probably as a galley captain. He served with distinction during that year and the next, culmina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Baili Of Negroponte
''Bailo'' or ''baylo'' (plural ''baili'' or ''bayli'') is a Venetian title that derives from the Latin term ''baiulus'', meaning "porter, bearer". In English, it may be translated bailiff, or otherwise rendered as bailey, baili, bailie, bailli or baillie. The office of a ''bailo'' is a ''bailaggio'' (sometimes anglicised "bailate"). The term was transliterated into Greek as μπαΐουλος (''baioulos''), but Nicephorus Gregoras translated it ἐπίτροπος (''epitropos'', steward) or ἔφορος (''ephoros'', overseer). In the Middle Ages, a ''bailo'' was a resident ambassador of the Republic of Venice. The most famous ''baili'' were those at Constantinople, who were, from 1268, the Venetian ambassadors to the Byzantine court and, after 1453, to the Ottoman government. There were also permanent ''baili'' at Negroponte, Durazzo and Corfu. ''Baili'' were also sent to represent Venetian interests at the courts of Cyprus, Acre (Jerusalem), Armenia and Trebizond. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stato Da Màr
The ''Stato da Màr'' or ''Domini da Mar'' () was the Republic of Venice's maritime and overseas possessions from around 1000 to 1797, including at various times parts of what are now Istria, Dalmatia, respectively Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece and notably the Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Crete, Cyclades, Euboea, as well as Cyprus. It was one of the three subdivisions of the Republic of Venice's possessions, the other two being the '' Dogado'', i.e. Venice proper, and the ''Domini di Terraferma'' in northern Italy. The overseas possessions, particularly islands such as Corfu, Crete, and Cyprus, played a critical role in Venice's commercial and military leadership. In his landmark study on the Mediterranean world in the 16th century, historian Fernand Braudel described these islands as "Venice's motionless fleet". History The creation of Venice's overseas empire began around the year 1000 with the defeat of the Narentines by Doge Pietro II Orseolo and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tommaso Mocenigo
Tommaso Mocenigo (1343–1423) was Doge of Venice, ''doge'' (chief magistrate) of the Republic of Venice from 1414 until his death. Biography He commanded the crusading fleet in the Battle of Nicopolis, expedition to Nicopolis in 1396 and also won battles against the Republic of Genoa, Genoese during the War of Chioggia of 1378–1381. While he was Venetian ambassador at Cremona, he was elected doge (1414), after previously being a procurator of St Mark's basilica, and he had escaped in secret, fearing that he might be held a prisoner by Gabrino Fondolo, tyrant of that city. He made peace with the Ottoman Empire, Turkish sultan, but, when hostilities broke out afresh, his fleet defeated that of the Turks at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416), Battle of Gallipoli. During his reign, the patriarchate of Aquileia, patriarch of Aquileia Louis of Teck formed an anti-Venetian alliance with Emperor Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund. Venice, under a double-sided attack, was able to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pantaleone Barbo
Pantaleone Barbo was a distinguished diplomat of the Venetian Republic. He was the Venetian ambassador to Constantinople, and became the first bailo of Corfu in 1389. Amongst his other diplomatic appointments, he served as ''Provveditore'' of Crete in 1363, captain of Crete in 1389, and duke of Crete in 1395. He also served as bailo and captain of Negroponte. Diplomatic career Barbo was sent as Venetian ambassador to Constantinople on the occasion of the death of John V Palaiologos "to express the Republic's distress 'at the death of our true and perfect friend'" and to liaise with John V's successor Manuel II Palaiologos. In 1386 Barbo accompanied Venetian diplomat Lorenzo de Monacis to Hungary representing Venice's interests during a crisis involving the succession to the Hungarian throne. The diplomatic mission was successful as described in a report by de Monacis to the Venetian government. In 1389, Barbo accompanied de Monacis again on another diplomatic mission to Hunga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carlo Zeno
Carlo Zeno (or Zen) (1333 – 8 March 1418) was a Venetian admiral who is considered a hero of the War of Chioggia against the Republic of Genoa. Early life Destined for an ecclesiastical career, Zeno studied at Padua, but dedicated himself instead to pursuing women and the good life. He thus ran out of money and enlisted in a band of mercenaries, returning to Venice after four or five years. Career While at Patras, the city was attacked by Turkish forces. Zeno distinguished himself in battle, but later made himself a hunted man after he killed a Christian knight with whom he had had an argument. He traveled to Constantinople, was married, and lived like a merchant. He was at Tenedos, a Venetian possession, when it was attacked by the Genoese. As the bailiff and captain of Negropont, Zeno found himself in command of eighteen galleys, which he employed in raiding expeditions in the Mediterranean. Carlo Zeno had long since been ordered to return to Venice, but the slowness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pietro Zeno (died 1345)
Pietro Zeno (died 17 January 1345) was the Venetian captain and bailiff of Negroponte (1331–33) and one of the leaders of the Smyrniote crusade (1343–45). In May–June 1332, an Aydinid Turkish fleet of 380 ships under Umur Bey attacked Negroponte. Zeno bought them off with a large tribute. On 18 July 1332, Doge Francesco Dandolo charged Zeno and Pietro da Canale with arranging an anti-Turkish alliance. By the end of the year the Naval League, "a union, society and league for the discomfiture of the Turks and the defence of the true faith", had been formally constituted. In 1334 Zeno took command of the league's fleet of twenty galleys and on 14 September defeated the large fleet of Yakhshi, emir of Karasi, off Adramyttion. In September 1343, the Venetian Grand Council elected Zeno captain of the flotilla of five galleys which it was sending to assist the crusade against Aydinid-held Smyrna Smyrna ( ; , or ) was an Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek city located at a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Marino Falier
Marino Faliero (, c. 1274 – 17 April 1355) was the 55th Doge of Venice from 1354 until his execution for attempting a coup d'etat in 1355. Origin and family Marino Faliero was born the son of Jacopo Faliero and Bettiola of the Loredan family. Marino had three brothers, Ordelaffo, Marco, and Jacopo, and a sister, Francesca. The Faliero family was one of the oldest in the Venetian patriciate, legend tracing its origins to the myths surrounding the foundation of Venice itself in Late Antiquity. By the 14th century, it was counted among the twelve most prestigious, so-called "apostolic" noble families. Marino married twice. The name of his first wife, who died sometime before 1328, is unknown, but may have been a member of the Contarini family (the same as his grandmother's). The couple had numerous children: Lucia, Marco, Nicoletto, Maddalena, Andriota, Caterina, and Tommasina. His second marriage, in 1335, was to the much younger Alvica Gradenigo, a granddaughter of Doge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pietro Querini Pezzagallo
Pietro Querini, commonly called Pezzagallo, was a member of the patrician House of Querini. He served as Bailo of Negroponte, one of the most senior appointments in the Republic of Venice's overseas empire, in 1306–1308. On his return he was tried and fined with 500 ducats because he had allowed his son Nicolo to maltreat a member of the local Jewish community. In 1309 he was again convicted and fined because he had resisted a search for concealed weapons by the Signori di Notte and assaulted the responsible officer. Along with his brother Marco Querini he was involved in the Tiepolo conspiracy of 1310. References Sources * *{{cite book , first=Carlo , last=Hopf , authorlink = Karl Hopf (historian) , title= Dissertazione documentata sulla storia di Karystos nell'isola di Negroponte, 1205 - 1470 , translator = G. B. de Sardagna , language = Italian , location=Venice , year = 1856 , publisher=Pietro Naratovich , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQ9CAAAAcAAJ Pietro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Francesco Dandolo
Monument to Doge Francesco Dandolo Francesco Dandolo (died 1339) was the 52nd Doge of Venice. He ruled from 1329 to 1339. During his reign Venice began its policy of extending its territory on the Italian mainland. Family The Dandolo family played an important role in Venetian history from the 12th to the 15th century. Historical references to the family go as far back as the 11th century; however, the family is not considered to be one of the so-called old families (''case vecchie'') of Venice, as it does not appear on the list of the founding families of Venice. Besides Francesco Dandolo, three other members of the family became doge: Giovanni Dandolo, Andrea Dandolo and Enrico Dandolo. Two women from the family married doges: Giovanna Dandolo to Pasqual Malipiero and Zilia Dandolo to Lorenzo Priuli. Dandolo himself was married to Elisabetta Contarini. Life Dandolo was one of the most successful Venetian diplomats. He was the Venetian Ambassador to the popes Pope C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jacopo 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 Andrea Barozzi, a Venetian official. Beginning with Karl Hopf in the 19th century, several modern historians held that his family had ruled the island of Santorini as a fief following the Fourth Crusade, meaning that Iacopo was heir to its lordship, but this has been refuted in the second half of the 20th century, when it was shown that Barozzi rule over Santorini can be documented only from the early 14th century on. Iacopo's early career was as a colonial administrator for the Venetian Republic in the Aegean: in the early 1290s he served as rector of Chania in the Venetian colony of Crete, then as Bailo of Negroponte from August 1295 to 1297, and finally as Duke of Candia in Crete from 1301 to 1303. At the same time, a council decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
