Nicolò Venier
| Nicolò Venier | |
|---|---|
| Lord of Paros | |
| Reign | 1520–1530 |
| Successor | Cecilia |
| Born | c. 1483 Paros, Greece |
| Died | c.1530 (aged 46–47) Paros, Greece |
| Spouse | Zantano Violante Baffo |
| Issue | First Marriage Andrea Venier Second Marriage Nurbanu Sultan (?) |
| Father | Zuan Francesco Venier |
| Mother | Fiorenza Sommaripa |
Nicolò Venier (1483–1530) was the lord of Paros from 1520 until his death in 1530.
He was a son of Zuan Francesco Venier, Co-Lord of Cerigo and his wife Fiorenza Sommaripa, Lady of Paros, and had a sister Cecilia, who succeeded him to the lordship of Paros.
In 1507 Venier married a woman named Zantano, by whom he had a son Andrea Venier, who died during his father's life.[1] There are speculations that by Violante Baffo he was the biological father of Italian concubine Cecilia Venier-Baffo, who was captured and sold into slavery. Then she became Nurbanu Sultan, the wife of Sultan Selim II, and the queen mother of Sultan Murad III and a Prominent figure in the Ottoman History.
References
- ^ Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 446 and p. 550