The House of Ghisi was a prominent Venetian noble family, originally from

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History

Following the establishment of

Crusader states The Crusader states, or Outremer, were four Catholic polities established in the Levant region and southeastern Anatolia from 1098 to 1291. Following the principles of feudalism, the foundation for these polities was laid by the First Crusade ...

in Greece after the

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, the Ghisi became an important dynasty there.

Andrea Ghisi Andrea Ghisi was a Venetian nobleman, and the first Lord of Tinos and Mykonos. There are no sources about him until 1207 when he participated in the expedition organized by Marco Sanudo for the conquest of the Greek islands which, three years ...

became lord of the islands of

Tinos Tinos ( ) is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It forms part of the Cyclades archipelago. The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos. It has a land area of and a 2021 census population of 8,934 inhabitants. Tinos is famous amo ...

and

Mykonos Mykonos (, ; ) is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island has an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. At the 2021 census, there were 10,704 inhabitants, most of ...

, while his brother

Geremia Ghisi Geremia Ghisi was a Venice, Venetian nobleman who in , following the Fourth Crusade, captured the Greek islands of Skiathos, Skopelos, and Skyros and became their lord, while his brother Andrea Ghisi conquered the islands of Tinos and Mykonos. Thei ...

became ruler of

Skopelos Skopelos (, ) is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands that comprise the Northern Sporades island group, which lies east of the Pelion peninsula on the mainland and north of the island of Euboea. It is par ...

Skiathos Skiathos (, ; , ; and ) is a small Greece, Greek Islands of Greece, island in the northwest Aegean Sea. Skiathos is the westernmost island in the Northern Sporades archipelago, east of the Pelion peninsula in Magnesia (regional unit), Magnesia ...

, and

Skyros Skyros (, ), in some historical contexts Romanization of Greek, Latinized Scyros (, ), is an island in Greece. It is the southernmost island of the Sporades, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea. Around the 2nd millennium BC, the island was known as ...

. Later members of the family were also active in the

Principality of Achaea The Principality of Achaea () or Principality of Morea was one of the vassal states of the Latin Empire, which replaced the Byzantine Empire after the capture of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade. It became a vassal of the Kingdom of Thes ...

and the

Triarchy of Negroponte The Triarchy of Negroponte was a crusader state established on the island of Euboea () after the partition of the Byzantine Empire following the Fourth Crusade. Partitioned into three baronies (''terzieri'', "thirds") (Chalcis, Chalkis, Karystos ...

Notable members

, Lord of

and

(ca. 1207–1266/77) **

Bartholomew I Ghisi Bartholomew I Ghisi (; died 1303) was the Venetian hereditary lord of the islands of Tenos and Mykonos in the Cyclades in Frankish Greece The Frankish Occupation (; anglicized as ), also known as the Latin Occupation () and, for the Ve ...

, Lord of Tinos and Mykonos (before 1277–1303) ***

George I Ghisi George I Ghisi () (died 15 March 1311) was a Latin feudal lord in medieval Greece. A son of Bartholomew I Ghisi, through his first marriage to a daughter of Guy II of Dramelay he was Baron of Chalandritsa in the Principality of Achaea. In 1292, he ...

Baron of Chalandritsa The Barony of Chalandritsa was a medieval Frankokratia, Frankish fiefdom of the Principality of Achaea, located in the northern Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, and centred on the town of Chalandritsa (; ; ; Aragonese language, Aragonese: ''C la ...

(after 1285/86–1311), Lord of Tinos and Mykonos (1303–1311) **** Bartholomew II Ghisi, Lord of Tinos and Mykonos (1311–1341), Triarch of Negroponte (1313–1341), Grand Constable of

Achaea Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek language, Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaḯa'', ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the modern regions of Greece, region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwest ...

***** George II Ghisi, Lord of Tinos and Mykonos and Triarch of Negroponte (1341–1352) ****** Bartholomew III Ghisi, Lord of Tinos and Mykonos and Triarch of Negroponte (1352–ca. 1385) ******* George III Ghisi, Lord of Tinos and Mykonos and Triarch of Negroponte (ca. 1385–1390) *

, Lord of

, and

(ca. 1207–1243/52), Lord of

Andros Andros (, ) is the northernmost island of the Greece, Greek Cyclades archipelago, about southeast of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . It is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and ...

(ca. 1239–1243/52) ** Isabetta, was forcibly married to Filippo Ghisi, who thus became Lord of Skopelos, Skiathos, and Skyros until 1277 * Agnese Ghisi, wife of Othon de Cicon, Lord of

Karystos Karystos () or Carystus is a small coastal town on the Greek island of Euboea. It has about 5,000 inhabitants (12,000 in the municipality). It lies 129 km south of Chalkis. From Athens it is accessible by ferry via Marmari from the port of ...

; Others with the surname * Martino Ghisi (1715–1794), Italian physician *

Giorgio Ghisi Giorgio Ghisi (1520 — 15 December 1582) was an Italian engraver from Mantua who also worked in Antwerp and in France. He made both prints and damascened metalwork, although only two surviving examples of the latter are known. He worked in ...

(1520—1582), Italian engraver * Teodoro Ghisi (1536–1601), Italian painter and engraver

Bibliography

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