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Faliero (Venetian : Falier), also encountered in the variants Faleiro, Faledro or Faletro, [1] was the name of a Venetian patrician family. [2]
Faliero (Venetian : Falier), also encountered in the variants Faleiro, Faledro or Faletro, [1] was the name of a Venetian patrician family. [2]
The family was one of the oldest in Venice, its history being lost in the myths surrounding the city's foundation at the end of Late Antiquity. [3] According to the not very reliable 13th-century Chronicon Altinate , the family originally was called Anafesti, and haled from Fano, before moving to Padua and thence to Jesolo in the Venetian Lagoon as a result of Padua's fall to the Lombards. [4] Other sources try to connect the Falieri with the Ordelaffi from Forli, and suggest a Lombard origin, but this is mostly speculation on the basis of the similarity of their names (Ordelaf being the anagram of Faledro). [5]
When the seat of Venice was moved from Eraclea to the Rialto in the early 9th century, they were among the fifty or so tribunician families to move there. [6] The first member of the family is attested in a public act of April 912, where a certain Orso Faletro Dodono acted as witness. [5] It appears that the family was numerous and may have been divided into three branches, the Anafesti, Ordelaffi, and Dodoni. [5]
It was one of the most centrally connected of Venetian families. [7] Four members were among the first colonists of Venetian Crete. Their descendants took the Greek name Phalieros (Φαλιέρος). [8]
The family produced three Doges of Venice: [2]
Other famous members include:
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