[[File:Coat of Arms of the House of Venier.svg|thumb|Coat of arms of Venier family. Blazon: ''Barry of six Gules and Argent'']] [[File:Jacopo Tintoretto 037.jpg|thumb|Sebastiano Venier in a portrait by Tintoretto]] The '''House of Venier''' was a prominent family in the Republic of Venice who entered the Venetian nobility in the 14th century.

== Notable members == *Pietro Venier (died 8 May 1372) who was the Governor of Cerigo *Antonio Venier (circa 1330 - 23 November 1400) who was Doge of Venice from October 1382 until his death. *Andrea Venier (fl. 15th century) a provveditore of Venetian Albania *Lorenzo Venier, a Dominican friar, was appointed Archbishop of Zadar, Croatia, on 19 Jan 1428 and was succeeded in 1449. He had previously been in the bishopric of Modon.<ref>Jadranka Neralić, "Judicial Cases in the Court of Maffeo Vallaresso, Archbishop of Zadar (1450-1494). Zadar and its Church in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century. VDK 262.136 (497.5 Zadar) "14". Review of Croatian History 3/2007, no. 1, 271-292, p. 292.</ref> *Alvise Venier was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Citra Canale on 12 Jan. 1444 and replaced 15 Jan. 1452<ref name=Chambers1997>{{cite journal |last1=Chambers |first1=D. S. |title=Merit and Money: The Procurators of St Mark and Their Commissioni, 1443-1605 |journal=Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes |date=1997 |volume=60 |pages=23–88 |doi=10.2307/751224 |jstor=751224 |s2cid=151580487 }}</ref> *Michiel Venier was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Supra Canale on 2 Jan. 1450 and replaced 2 April 1463<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Deodato Venier was a canon at the cathedral of Zadar, now Croatia, and became Abbot of San Crisogono (a Benedictine abbey belonging to the reformed congregation of Santa Giustina), in Zadar, 1459-1488 (according to M. Pelc). He was convicted of a number of crimes but soon absolved of them.<ref>Jadranka Neralić, "Judicial Cases in the Court of Maffeo Vallaresso, Archbishop of Zadar (1450-1494). Zadar and its Church in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century. VDK 262.136 (497.5 Zadar) "14". Review of Croatian History 3/2007, no. 1, 271-292, p. 272. She gives his dates of his holding the abbacy as 1458-1485, which seems to be in error.</ref> He commissioned four liturgical books for the abbey, decorated probably in Venice, that still survive.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pelc |first1=Milan |title=Picov Majstor i kodeksi zadarskog opata Deodata Veniera |journal=Radovi Instituta Za Povijest Umjetnosti |date=28 December 2012 |issue=36 |pages=113–124 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/95920 |language=hr }}</ref> *Francesco Venier, appointed podestà (city ruler, or minister of justice) of Padua for a term of one year by Doge Christoforo Moro, Venice, 1 Oct. 1470 <ref>Venice, Italy, Biblioteca del Museo Correr, ms. Classe III 84, Commissione of Christoforo Moro; Nuova Biblioteca Manoscritta (online: search at http://www.nuovabibliotecamanoscritta.it/). Called "ser Francesco Venier fu de ser Dolfin" in Giuseppe Cappelletti, Storia di Padova, vol. 2, p. 258(Padua, 1875)</ref> Francesco Venier, presumably the same person, was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Ultra Canale on 27 Dec. 1475 and was replaced 20 Jan. 1486<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Antonio Venier was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Supra Canale on 13 Jan 1472 and was replaced on 13 Nov. 1474<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Benedetto Venier was elected Procuratore di San Marco de Citra Canale on 31 Dec. 1475 and was replaced March 14, 1487.<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Bernardo Venier "fu de ser Giacomo" was podestà of Padua in 1476 <ref>Giuseppe Cappelletti, Storia di Padova, vol. 2, p. 258 (Padua, 1875)</ref> *Antonio Venier fu de ser Dolfin was podestà of Padua in 1485 <ref>Giuseppe Cappelletti, Storia di Padova, vol. 2, p. 258(Padua, 1875) </ref> Antonio Venier, presumably the same person, was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Supra Canale 1 March 1489 and replaced 27 March 1492<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Marin Venier fu de ser Alvise Procurator was podestà of Padua in 1492<ref>Giuseppe Cappelletti, Storia di Padova, vol. 2, p. 258 </ref> Marin Venier, presumably the same person, was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Supra Canale on 23 Dec. 1501 and resigned 20 Jan. 1502<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Andrea Venier was elected Procuratore di San Marco de Supra Canale on 28 July 1509 and was replaced on June 17, 1513<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Marcantonio Venier was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Citra Canale on March 17, 1554 and replaced April 6, 1556<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Francesco Venier was Doge of Venice from 1554 to 1556. *Bernardò Venier was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Citra Canale on Aug. 9, 1557, and replaced on 23 Oct. 1559<ref name=Chambers1997/> *Nurbanu Sultan (Cecilia Venier-Baffo) was the Haseki sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 to 1574 and wife of Selim II and the Mother of Murad III and Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 to until her death in 1583. She was also the daughter of Nicolò Venier, Lord of Paros and the paternal great great great granddaughter of Antonio Venier, Doge of Venice. She was the Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire when her father's first cousin Sebastiano Venier was the Doge of Venice. Through her son Murad III who himself was half Venier by blood, she is the ancestor of most of the Ottoman Sultans until the Empire's dissolution in 1922. *Sebastiano Venier (c. 1496 – March 3, 1578) was Doge of Venice from June 11, 1577 to March 3, 1578. He had been an admiral of the Venetian fleet and was one of the protagonists in the 1571 Battle of Lepanto *Nicolò Venier was elected to the lifetime position of Procuratore di San Marco de Citra Canale on 24 Feb. 1579 and replaced 20 Oct. 1587<ref name=Chambers1997/> The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, and the Croatian town of Vinjerac (once Castel Venier) takes its name from the family.

==Sources== *{{cite book |last1=Lane|first1= Frederic Chapin|title= Venice, a Maritime Republic|publisher= Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1973|isbn= 978-0-8018-1460-0}} *{{cite book | last1=Setton|first1 =Kenneth Meyer| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0Sz2VYI0l1IC | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_0Sz2VYI0l1IC/page/n28 20]| quote=Venier.|title=The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571|publisher= DIANE Publishing|year= 1978|isbn =978-0-87169-127-9}}

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