Nicolò Venier
Nicolò Venier (1483-1530) was a Lord of Paros from 1520 until his death in 1530. He was also the father of the Nurbanu Sultan who served as the Haseki sultan and the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
| 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 |
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
[edit]- ^ 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
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