Marco Badoer da Santa Giustina (died 1288) was a Venetian administrator, diplomat and military commander.
Marco was born in the early years of the 13th century. His father, Marino, was the procurator of Saint Mark from 1223. He married Marchesina, daughter of Doge Pietro Ziani (r. 1205–1229) and his second wife, Constance, daughter of King Tancred of Sicily. They had several children: Marino, Marco (called del Sestrier di San Marco to distinguish him from his father), Ruggero, Giovanni, Badoaro, Andrea, Sibilla and Maria.
In 1256, Pope Alexander IV declared a crusade against the tyrant Ezzelino III da Romano and formed a league with Venice. The papal legate named Marco marshal and podestà of the army of the league, while Tommaso Giustiniani da San Pantalon was named governor and Azzo VII d'Este captain-general. On 20 June, Marco occupied the city of Padua, where he arranged the marriage of his eldest son with Balzanella, heiress of the Da Peraga [ it ]. Following Ezzelino's death in October 1259, he occupied Treviso, where he served as podestà from 19 October 1259 until 6 August 1260. He governed with the counsel of ten consuls and twelve elders. He declared void all sales of property made in the previous fifteen years and on 16 March 1260 confiscated all the property of Ezzelino and his brother Alberico. He harnessed the resources of Treviso for the final phase of the war. He then besieged Alberico da Romano in San Zenone until he surrendered on 23 August.
In 1261, Marco was one of the electors of the Maggior Consiglio . That year he was a member of the embassy sent to congratulate Pope Urban IV on his election and ask for papal assistance in recovering Constantinople for the Latin Empire. The future doge Jacopo Contarini was also on this mission.
In 1270, when Venice went to war with Bologna for the right to navigate the Po, Marco commanded a flotilla of nine galleys on the Po di Primaro [ it ]. After two months, he turned command over to Jacopo Dondulo. In 1275, he was one of the rectors of the Dogato between the death of Lorenzo Tiepolo and the election of Jacopo Contarini. In 1278, he drew up his will, requesting burial in Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. That year, he was sent with Andrea Zeno and Guiberto Dandolo to congratulate Pope Nicholas III on his election, but the pope refused to receive them because of Venice's war with Ancona.
In 1281, Marco was on the Minor Council. In 1282, he was podestà of Chioggia. His date of death is unrecorded, but was probably in 1288. His children are recorded executing his will that year.
Ezzelino III da Romano was an Italian feudal lord, a member of the Ezzelini family, in the March of Treviso. He was a close ally of the emperor Frederick II, and ruled Verona, Vicenza and Padua for almost two decades. He became infamous as a cruel tyrant, and was, in fact, the most "notorious" of the "early tyrants".
Leonardo Loredan was a Venetian nobleman and statesman who reigned as the 75th Doge of Venice from 1501 until his death in 1521. As a wartime ruler, he was one of the most important doges in the history of Venice. In the dramatic events of the early 16th century, Loredan's Machiavellian plots and cunning political manoeuvres against the League of Cambrai, the Ottomans, the Mamluks, the Pope, the Republic of Genoa, the Holy Roman Empire, the French, the Egyptians and the Portuguese saved Venice from downfall.
The Contarini is one of the founding families of Venice and one of the oldest families of the Italian Nobility. In total eight Doges to the Republic of Venice emerged from this family, as well as 44 Procurators of San Marco, numerous ambassadors, diplomats and other notables. Among the ruling families of the republic, they held the most seats in the Great Council of Venice from the period before the Serrata del Maggior Consiglio when Councillors were elected annually to the end of the republic in 1797. The Contarini claimed to be of Roman origin through their patrilineal descendance of the Aurelii Cottae, a branch of the Roman family Aurelia, and traditionally trace their lineage back to Gaius Aurelius Cotta, consul of the Roman Republic in 252 BC and 248 BC.
The Barbaro family was a patrician family of Venice. They were wealthy and influential and owned large estates in the Veneto above Treviso. Various members were noted as church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.
Cunizza da Romano was an Italian noblewoman and a member of the da Romano dynasty, one of the most prominent families in northeastern Italy, Cunizza's marriages and liaisons, most notably with troubadour Sordello da Goito, are widely documented. Cunizza also appears as a character in a number of works of literature, such as Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
Reniero Zeno was the 45th Doge of Venice, reigning from 1 January 1253 until his death in 1268.
San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice, northern Italy.
Jacopo Tiepolo, also known as Giacomo Tiepolo, was Doge of Venice from 1229 to 1249. He had previously served as the first Venetian Duke of Crete, and two terms as Podestà of Constantinople, twice as governor of Treviso, and three times as ambassador to the Holy See. His dogate was marked by major domestic reforms, including the codification of civil law and the establishment of the Venetian Senate, but also against a mounting conflict with Emperor Frederick II, which broke into open war from 1237 to 1245.
Francesco Dandolo 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.
Alberico da Romano, called Alberico II, was an Italian condottiero, troubadour, and an alternatingly Guelph and Ghibelline statesman. He was also a patron of Occitan literature.
Biaquino II da Camino was an Italian nobleman and military leader, a member of the da Camino family and lord of Treviso.
Ezzelino II da Romano, also known as Ezzelino il Monaco was an Italian nobleman of the Ezzelini family, who was lord of Onara, Romano, Bassano and Godego.
Ezzelino I da Romano, also known as Ezzelino il Balbo was an Italian nobleman of the Ezzelini family, who was lord of Onara, Romano, Bassano and Godego.
Giordano Forzatè, anglicized Jordan Forzatè, was a Paduan Benedictine monk and religious leader. For his noble background, peacemaking efforts and monastic reforms, the Chronicle of the Trevisan March calls him the pater Padue, "father of Padua".
Filippo da Pistoia, also called Filippo Fontana or anglicized Philip, was an Italian prelate, military leader and diplomat. He was the bishop-elect of Ferrara from 1239 until 1252, bishop-elect of Florence from 1250 until 1251 and archbishop of Ravenna from 1250 until his death. He was the apostolic legate in Germany between July 1246 and March 1247, in Lombardy and the Trevigiana between December 1255 and August 1258 and throughout northern Italy between 1267 and February 1270. He served as podestà (mayor) of Ravenna in 1254.
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The Badoer were an aristocratic family in the Republic of Venice. The Badoer traced their ancestry, without any factual basis, to Doge Giustiniano Participazio in the early 9th century. In fact, they rose to prominence in the 13th century.
Giovanni Badoer or Zuan Badoer was a poet, politician and diplomat of the Republic of Venice.
Stefano Badoer was a Venetian nobleman.
Jacopo Dolfin or Giacomo Dolfin was a 13th-century Venetian nobleman and senior provincial administrator in the Venetian overseas empire.
