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Marco Barbarigo Doge of Venice |
Marco Barbarigo
73rd Doge of Venice.
(1413-1486).
Husband of: Helena Thopia
An Albanian princess.
"The epic figure of Prince Marko may have gained support from yet another historical personality, that of Barko Barbadigo (sic), a Venetian nobleman; the third Marko prototype. When Marko Barbadigo, a contemporary of King Marko, married, he received in dowry the town of Kroya, Albania, as Prince Marko had acquired Kastoria. Marko Barbadigo is also reported to have had poor luck with his wife, who, life the wife of Prince Marko, is represented in the chronicles as being unfaithful. Furthermore, during Barbadigo's absence from home, his wife left him and even managed to transfer Kroya over to her lover Konstantin Balsic, a relative of Balsa II who took Kastoria from King Marko." (Popovic, 1988: 23) [Bio2] [Ref1]
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| Andrea Gritti Doge of Venice @Wikipedia |
"Andrea Gritti was nothing like his scholarly predecessor, Dandolo. Nor did he fit the austere profile of most doges. He was a womanizer, a carouser. A spy in his youth, he fathered at least three bastards on Turkish women and one on a nun who was his favorite mistress. He died at eighty-six, in December 1538, after feasting for two days on grilled eels and drinking a dozen flagons of cold wine. . . ." (Christopher, 2007, p. 167)
" . . . Andrea Gritti fathered three sons with a Greek woman during his long years in Constantinople, including the controversial Alvise Gritti. . . ." (Dursteier, 2006: 96)
" . . . The Venetian doge, Andrea Gritti, had generally pursued a French alliance during the Cambrai wars and after, and in the geopolitics of the day this implied hostility to the Habsburgs and a willingness to negotiate and even collaborate with the Ottomans. This came relatively naturally for Gritti, since he had in earlier years made his fortune as a merchant in Istanbul, where a Greek mistress bore him three sons. One of these, Alvise Gritti, returned to Istanbul as an adult, and became a powerful figure at the court of Sultan Suleyman...." (Harper, 2011: 52)
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