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House of Loredan-Santa Maria
Noble House
Coat of Arms of the House of Loredan
Parent family	House of Loredan
Country	Former  Republic of Venice Modern  Albania  Croatia  Cyprus  Greece  Italy  Montenegro  Slovenia
Current region	Croatia  United Kingdom
Etymology	by the churches of Santa Maria Formosa and Santa Maria dei Miracoli
Place of origin	Venice
Founded	14th century
Founder	Pietro Loredan
Titles	Procurator of Saint Mark Regent of the Archipelago Duchess of the Archipelago Duke of Albania Duke of Morea Duke of Dalmatia Duke of Friuli Count of Brescia Count of Crema Count of Famagusta Count of Feltre Count of Kotor Count of Palmanova Count of Peschiera Count of Pula Count of Rovigo Count of Salò Count of Scutari Count of Spalato Count of Treviso Count of Zara Lord of Antiparos Lady of Ios Lady of Naxos Lady of Paros Lady of Therasia
Members	Antonio Loredan Giacomo Loredan Giovanni Loredan Giovanni Francesco Loredan Marco Loredan Marco Loredan Pietro Loredan Taddea Caterina Loredan
Connected members	Francesco Barbaro Francesco III Crispo John IV Crispo Giacomo IV Crispo
Connected families	Barbarigo Barbaro Barozzi Contarini Cornaro Dandolo Dolfin Donà Foscari Giustiniani Mocenigo Mòro Morosini Pisani Priuli Vendramin Venier Zorzi
Distinctions	Order of Saint Mark
Traditions	Roman Catholicism
Motto	NON NOBIS DOMINE (Praise us not, O Lord.)

The House of Loredan-Santa Maria is a cadet branch of the noble House of Loredan which has produced many politicians, diplomats, military generals, naval captains, church dignitaries, writers and lawyers, and has played a significant role in the creation of modern opera with the Accademia degli Incogniti, also called the Loredanian Academy. The branch draws its name from the parishes of Santa Maria Formosa and Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice, around which it was historically settled. The progenitor of the branch is considered to be the famous admiral and procurator Pietro Loredan (1372-1438) by his sons Giacomo and Polo.

History

The branch of Santa Maria originated from the sons of the admiral Pietro Loredan (1372-1438), Giacomo (1396-1471) and Polo, in the late 14th century. From the two brothers it was divided into two separate lineages named after two nearby parishes around which its members were settled - Santa Maria Formosa (by the homonymous church in Castello) and Santa Maria Nova (by the Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Cannaregio). Besides Venice, in the following centuries the branch also settled in the Aegean islands and on the Dalmatian coast.

Giacomo Loredan (1396-1471) was a military general who served as Captain of the Gulf and three times as Captain General of the Sea in the Venetian Navy. He defeated the Ottomans in battle in 1464. For his many merits towards his homeland, his portrait was placed in the hall of the Great Council in the Doge's Palace, where it remained until the fire of 1577. According to Girolamo Priuli he was "handsome in body and very vigorous, prudent, just and liberal".

Antonio Loredan (1420-1482) was captain of Venetian-held Scutari and governor in Split (Venetian Dalmatia), Venetian Albania and the Morea. He is famous for the successful defence of Scutari from Sultan Mehmed II's Ottoman forces led by Hadım Suleiman Pasha. According to some sources, when the Scutari garrison complained for lack of food and water, Loredan told them: "If you are hungry, here is my flesh; if you are thirsty, I give you my blood." He also served as the Captain General of the Sea and is notable for commissioning the Legend of Saint Ursula (1497/98), a series of large wall-paintings by Vittore Carpaccio originally created for Scuola di Sant'Orsola which was under the patronage of the Loredan family.

The family is also significant for the island of Antiparos in the Aegean Sea. Apparently the Venetians did not pay much attention to the island which by the beginning of the 15th century was a pirate base and haven. This changed when the lord of the island became Giovanni Loredan, who had married Maria Sommaripa (d. 1446) from the family of the rulers of Paros, with whom he had a daughter Lucrezia Loredan (1446-1528), Lady of Antiparos. Loredan brought new inhabitants to the island at his own expense and built the castle in 1440 which had a very specific and unique style of architecture. The castle and the island remained in the ownership of the House of Loredan until 1480 when they were given as a dowry to Domenico Pisani, son of the Duke of Crete who had married Fiorenza, the daughter of the Duke of Naxos.

Taddea Caterina Loredan, Duchess of the Archipelago, known as "a lady of wisdom and great talent", was the wife of Francesco III Crispo, who was mentally ill and was known as the "Mad Duke". Francesco attacked her in August of 1510; Taddea tried to escape from him, and she fled to the castle of her cousin Lucrezia Loredan, Lady of Ios and Therasia, where Francesco had followed her a day later and attacked her again, on the 17th of August 1510, now murdering her. Their son John IV Crispo became the next Duke of the Archipelago in 1517, after a regency period during which he was still too young to rule. A 1908 book by historian William Miller titled "The Latins in the Levant, a History of Frankish Greece" indicates that the regent of the Duchy from 1511 to 1517 was Taddea's brother Antonio Loredan.

Marco Loredan (1489-1557) was a senator and politician, as well as Count of Brescia, Feltre, Rovigo, Salò and Famagusta, presiding over a time of famine and poverty following the War of the League of Cambrai.

Marco Loredan (d. 1577) was a priest and senator who was appointed by Pope Julius II as the Bishop of Nona (today Nin, Croatia), a position which he held from 1554 to 1577. He was also appointed by Pope Gregory XIII as the Apostolic Administrator and Archbishop of Zara (today Zadar, Croatia), where he stayed from 1573 until his death on the 25th of June, 1577.

Giovanni Francesco Loredan, born in 1607, was a writer and politician. He was born in Venice as the son of Lorenzo Loredan and Leonora Boldù. When both of his parents died while he was very young, he was raised by his uncle Antonio Boldù and had as his teacher Antonio Colluraffi. He divided his youth between hard study and an extravagant lifestyle. He attended the classes of renowned Aristotelian philosopher Cesare Cremoni in Padua and began, before 1623, to gather around him the group of scholars who then formed the Accademia degli Incogniti, also called the Loredanian academy. As founder of the Accademia degli Incogniti and a member of many other Academies, he had close contact with almost all the scholars of his time. He and his circle played a decisive role in the creation of modern opera. In addition to literary activity, he also took part in public affairs. At twenty he was recorded in the Golden Book, but his career began quite late: in September 1632 he was elected Savio agli Ordini and in 1635 he was treasurer of the fortress of Palmanova. On his return in 1636 he reorganized the Accademia degli Incogniti and, in 1638, despite attempts to avoid it, he was obliged, as the only descendant of his branch, to contract marriage with Laura Valier. He was then Provveditore ai Banchi (1640), Provveditore alle Pompe (1642), and in 1648 he made the leap to the rank of Avogador del Comùn that he held several times (1651, 1656 and 1657). He subsequently joined the office of the State Inquisitors and became a member of the Council of Ten. In 1656 he entered the Minor Consiglio, that is, among the six patricians who, together with the doge, composed the Serenissima Signoria. However, he may then have been pushed out of office, as in the following years he no longer held important positions. In 1660 he was a Provveditore in Peschiera. The following year, on the 13th of August 1661, he died.

Although most Venetian nobles usually came to Dalmatian cities on political or military duty, and stayed until the end of their term, branches of some Venetian noble families, such as the Loredans, the Venier, and the da Mosto families, settled in and around Zara. A part of the Santa Maria branch of the Loredan family has been settled on the Dalmatian island of Ugljan (today part of Croatia) since the 18th century. Descendants today still live on the island, as well as in London.

Titles

Title	Type	Modern country
Procurator of St. Mark	noble and political	Italy
Regent of the Archipelago	noble	Greece
Duchess of the Archipelago	noble	Greece
Duke of the Kingdom of the Morea	noble and political	Greece
Duke of Dalmatia	noble and political	Croatia
Duke of Albania	noble and political	Albania
Duke of Friuli	noble and political	Italy
Count of Treviso	noble and political	Italy
Count of Rovigo	noble and political	Italy
Count of Palmanova	noble and political	Italy
Count of Brescia	noble and political	Italy
Count of Peschiera del Garda	noble and political	Italy
Count of Crema	noble and political	Italy
Count of Feltre	noble and political	Italy
Count of Salò	noble and political	Italy
Count of Zara	noble and political	Croatia
Count of Spalato	noble and political	Croatia
Count of Pula	noble and political	Croatia
Count of Kotor	noble and political	Montenegro
Count of Scutari	noble and political	Albania
Count of Famagusta	noble and political	Cyprus
Lord of Antiparos	noble	Greece
Lady of Ios	noble	Greece
Lady of Therasia	noble	Greece
Lady of Naxos	noble	Greece
Lady of Paros	noble	Greece
Lady of Antiparos	noble	Greece
Bailo of Corfu	diplomatic	Greece
Bailo of Negroponte	diplomatic	Greece
Captain General of the Sea	naval	Greece
Captain of the Gulf	naval	Montenegro
Savio del Consiglio	political	Italy
Avogador de Comùn	legal	Italy
Archbishop of Zara	ecclesiastical	Croatia
Bishop of Nona	ecclesiastical	Croatia

Genealogy

Note: Genealogical trees are partial and do not feature recent members.

Santa Maria Formosa

House of Loredan-Santa Maria Formosa

Alvise Loredan Giovanna (d. after 1404) Pietro Loredan (1372-1438) Campagnola Lando Giorgio Loredan Giovanni Loredan (d. 1420) Polo Loredan Giacomo Loredan (1396-1471) Beatrice Marcello Maria Loredan Francesco Barbaro (1390-1454) Antonio Loredan (1420-1482) Orsola Pisani Luca Loredan San Cancian Giovanni Loredan Marco Loredan Jacopo Loredan Santa Maria Nova Gianfrancesco Loredan Lorenzo Loredan (d. 1608) Leonora Boldù (d. 1609) Maria Loredan Giovanni Francesco Loredan (1607-1661) Laura Valier Antonio Loredan (b. 1641) Antonio Alberto Loredan (b. 1644) Ottavio Loredan (b. 1648) Lorenzo Loredan (b. 1649) Elena Loredan Lorenzo Loredan "Lolo"

Note: Giacomo Loredan (1396-1471) and Beatrice Marcello had several children, although only Antonio Loredan and Luca Loredan are featured in this genealogical tree.

Note: Antonio Loredan (1420-1482) and Orsola Pisani had many children, although only three sons (Giovanni, Marco, Jacopo) are featured in this genealogical tree.

Santa Maria Nova

Note: Alvise Loredan (d. 1502) and Argentina Vincenzina Contarini had 10 children - 4 sons and 6 daughters, although only Alessandro, Lorenzo and Marco Loredan (1489-1557) are featured in the genealogical tree.

Note: Besides the five sons listed, Marco Loredan (1489-1557) and Elisabetta Contarini also had daughters.

Alvise Loredan (d. 1502) was a military general.

Alvise Loredan (1533-1560) was assassinated in 1560.

Giovanni Loredan (1537-1571) was killed in the Echinades, Ionian Sea, as a commander of a galley in the Battle of Lepanto.

Polo Loredan (1540-1493) was the one to continue the lineage.

Ducal line in Greece

House of Loredan-Greece
Giovanni Loredan Maria Sommaripa Francesco Crispo Lucrezia Loredan (1446-1528) Paolo Paterno Francesco III Crispo (1483-1511) Taddea Caterina Loredan (d. 1510) Antonio Loredan Caterina Crispo John IV Crispo (1499-1564) Adriana Gozzadini Caterina Crispo (b. 1516) Francesco IV Crispo (1518-1550) Taddea Crispo (b. 1519) Giacomo IV Crispo (1520-1576)

Gallery

• Antonio Loredan (on the right) and a Young Man, by Vittore Carpaccio, 1495, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
• Print of Antonio Loredan, by Giacomo Piccini, 1662, British Museum, London
• Siege of Scutari, by Paolo Veronese, 1585, featuring Antonio Loredan, Doge's Palace, Venice
• Portrait of Giovanni Francesco Loredan, by Giacomo Piccini
• Portrait of Giovanni Francesco Loredan, by Daniel van den Dyck
• Giovanni Francesco Loredan, print by William Faithorne, 1681, British Museum, London
• Palazzo Loredan a Santa Maria
• Castle of Antiparos, built by Giovanni Loredan, Lord of Antiparos in 1440

Notes

•  a: Although most Venetian nobles usually came to Dalmatian cities on political or military duty, and stayed until the end of their term, branches of some Venetian noble families, such as the Loredans, the Venier, and the da Mosto families, settled in and around Zara.
  
•  b: In the actual Venetian language, his name was Piero Loredano; in contemporary Greek sources, he is encountered as Πέτρος Λορδᾶς, Λαυρεδάνος, or Λορδάνο.
  

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Further reading

• Barzman, Karen-edis (2017). The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference. Brill. ISBN 9789004331518.
• Norwich, John Julius (2003). A History of Venice. Penguin UK. ISBN 978-0-14-101383-1.
• Setton, Kenneth Meyer (1976). The Papacy and the Levant, 1204–1571: The fifteenth century. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 978-0-87169-127-9.
• Miller, William. The Latins in the Levant: A History of Frankish Greece (1204–1566). London: 1908.
• Stahl, Alan M. (2009). "Michael of Rhodes: Mariner in Service to Venice". In Long, Pamela O. (ed.). The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Volume III: Studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-12308-2.
• Maidalchini, Francesco. Il Loredano. Panegirico. Venice 1634.
• Brunacci, G. Vita di Giovan Francesco Loredan. Venice 1662.
• Lupis, Antonio. Vita di Giovan Francesco Loredan Senator Veneto. Venice 1663.
• Brocchi, V. L'accademia e la novella nel Seicento: Giovan Francesco Loredan, "Atti del R. Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere e arti", s. 7, IX (1897–98), pp. 284–311.
• Ivanoff, N. Giovan Francesco Loredan e l'ambiente artistico a Venezia nel Seicento, "Ateneo veneto", III 1965, pp. 186–190.
• Morini, A. Sous le signe de l'inconstance. La vie et l'oeuvre de Giovan Francesco Loredan (1606-1661), noble vénitien, fondateur de l'Académie des Incogniti, diss., Université de Paris IV, 1994.
• Morini, A. Giovan Francesco Loredan: sémiologie d'une crise, "Revue des études italiennes", XLIII 1997, pp. 23–50.
• Morini, A. Giovan Francesco Loredan (1606-1661): le retour à la bergerie, in: Soulèvements et ruptures: l'Italie en quête de sa révolution. Actes du Colloque du CSLI, a cura di B. Toppan, Nancy 1998, pp. 73–88.
• Miato, M. L'Accademia degli Incogniti di Giovan Francesco Loredan. Venezia (1630-1661), Florence 1998.
• Loredan, Giovanni Francesco. Morte del Volestein e altre opere, a c. di L. Manini, La Finestra editrice, Lavis 2015 ISBN 978-8895925-60-8.
• Rosand, Ellen, Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice: the Creation of a Genre. University of California Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-520-25426-8 ISBN 0520254260.
• Zorzi, Ludovico (1998). Carpaccio e la rappresentazione di Sant'Orsola. Torino: Einaudi.
• Bertoša, Slaven (2012). Gli Orizzonti Mediterranei della Famiglia Veneziana Loredan.
• Morelli, Jacopo (1790). Della Istoria Viniziana di Monsignor Pietro Bembo Cardinale. Venice.
• Romanin, Samuele. Storia documentata di Venezia, Venice 1859.
• Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 65: Levis–Lorenzetti. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. (individual biographies of many family members)
• Manfroni, Camillo (1934). Enciclopedia Italiana.
• King, Margaret L. Umanesimo e patriziato a Venezia nel Quattrocento, vol. 1. Rome.
• Battista di Crollalanza, Giovanni (1965). Dizionario storico-blasonico delle famiglie nobili e notabili italiane estinte e fiorenti, vol. 2. Bologna.
• Berendt, John (2005). The City of Falling Angels. Penguin Press. ISBN 1-59420-058-0.
• Brusegan, Marcello (2005). La grande guida dei monumenti di Venezia. Rome: Newton & Compton. ISBN 88-541-0475-2.
• Hierarchia Catholica, Vol. 3. p. 260. (on the bishop Marco Loredan)
• Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1554. (on the ordination of the bishop Marco Loredan)

External links

• Famiglia Loredano at conoscerevenezia.it
• Pietro Loredan (admiral) at treccani.it
• Antonio Loredan at treccani.it
• Giovanni Francesco Loredan at treccani.it
• Marco Loredan at treccani.it
• Giacomo Loredan at treccani.it
• Castle of Antiparos at kastra.eu

v t e House of Loredan
People	Doges of Venice Leonardo Loredan Pietro Loredan Francesco Loredan Dogaressas of Venice Caterina Loredan Paolina Loredan Bishops and Archbishops Giovanni Loredan Marco Loredan Teodoro Loredan Balbi Other members Alvise Loredan Andrea Loredan Andrea Loredan Antonio Loredan Antonio Loredan Fosco Loredan Francesco Loredan Giacomo Loredan Giorgio Loredan Giovanni Loredan Giovanni Francesco Loredan Marco Loredan Pietro Loredan	NON NOBIS DOMINE NON NOBIS
Estates	Lands Antiparos Barban Bertinoro Loreo Ormelle Rachele Vangadizza Palaces Ca' Loredan Ca' Loredan Vendramin Calergi Palazzo Giustinian Loredan Palazzo Priuli Ruzzini Loredan Palazzo Loredan a San Cancian Palazzo Loredan Cini Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore Palazzo Loredan Gheltoff Palazzo Loredan Grifalconi Palazzo Loredan in Campo Santo Stefano Palazzo Loredan in Santa Marina Palazzo Loredan-Porcia Palazzo Signolo Loredan Loredan Palace in Barban Loredan Palace in Rakalj Villas Villa Loredan at Paese Villa Marcello Loredan Franchin Villa Razzolini Loredan Villa Nani Loredan Villa Loredan at Carbonera Villa Loredan at Stra Villa Loredan Bragadin Villa Loredan Morosini Villa Loredan van Axel Villa Loredan Grimani Avezzù Barchessa Loredan Castles Castle of Antiparos Castle of Loredo
Artworks	Paintings Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan (Carpaccio) Portrait of Doge Pietro Loredan Portrait of the Loredan family Legend of Saint Ursula Sculptures Bust of Andrea Loredan Tomb of Doge Leonardo Loredan Literature Panegyricus Leonardo Lauredano
Heraldry	Golden Rose Knight of the Golden Spur Order of Saint Mark Order of Merit for Labour
Institutions	Accademia degli Incogniti (Loredanian Academy)
Cadet branches	House of Loredan-Santo Stefano House of Loredan-San Pantaleone House of Loredan-San Cancian House of Loredan-San Vio House of Loredan-Santa Maria
Connected families	Badoer Barbarigo Barbaro Barbo Barozzi Bembo Calogerà Celsi Contarini Cornaro Correr Dandolo Dolfin Donà Foscari Gabrielli Ghisi Giustiniani Grimani Kallergis Marcello Mocenigo Mòro Morosini Orseolo Ottoboni Papafava Pisani Priuli Sagredo Salamon Sceriman Tron Valmarana Vendramin Venier Zeno Zorzi Zulian

• Loredan family
• Italian noble families