Zuan Francesco Venier

Zuan Francesco Venier (died 1518) was a co-lord of Cerigo.[1]

Ancestry

He was a son of Moisé Venier (c. 1412 – c. 1476)[1] and wife (married 1437) Caterina Vitturi, paternal grandson of Biagio Venier (died 1449)[2] and wife (married 1406) Lucia Contarini, great-grandson of Antonio Venier.[3]

Marriage and issue

He married in 1479 Fiorenza Sommaripa, Lady of Paros (died 1518),[4] and had Nicolò Venier, Lord of Paros and Cecilia Venier. He also was the grandfather of Nurbanu Sultan, who served as the Haseki sultan and Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the maternal great grandfather of the Ottoman sultan Murad III.

References

  1. ^ a b Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 446
  2. ^ Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 445
  3. ^ Marina Koumanoudi, Fragments of an Island Economy: The Venier Kytheran Estate Records (15th c.) in I Greci durante la venetocrazia: Uomini, spazio, idee (XIII-XVIII), 2007, p 497
  4. ^ Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 550
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