Nicolò Venier (1483-1530) was a Lord of

Paros Paros (; ; ) is a Greek island in the central Aegean Sea. Part of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos (island), Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Co ...

from 1520 until his death in 1530. He was also the father of the

Nurbanu Sultan Nurbanu Sultan (; 1525 – 7 December 1583) was Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and legal wife of Sultan Selim II (reign 1566–1574), as the mother of Sultan Murad III (reign 1574–1583) and the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire from ...

who served as the

Haseki sultan Haseki Sultan (, ''Ḫāṣekī Sulṭān'' ) was the title used for the chief consort of an Ottoman sultan. In later years, the meaning of the title changed to "imperial consort". Hurrem Sultan, principal consort and legal wife of Suleiman the ...

and the

Valide sultan Valide Sultan (, lit. "Sultana mother") was the title held by the mother of a ruling sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans first formally used the title in the 16th century as an epithet of Hafsa Sultan (died 1534), mother of Sultan Suleima ...

of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

. He was a son of

Zuan Francesco Venier Zuan Francesco Venier (died 1518) was a co-lord of Cerigo.Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople, Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 446 Ancestry He was a son of Moisé ...

, Co-Lord of Cerigo and his wife

Fiorenza Sommaripa Fiorenza Sommaripa (died after 1520) was a Latin noblewoman of the Aegean islands. Life She was a daughter of Nicolò I Sommaripa and his spouse, a woman from the da Pesaro family, whose first name is unknown. She married in 1479 the Venetian Zu ...

, Lady of

, and had a sister

Cecilia Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. History The name has been popularly used in Europe (particularly the United Kingdom and Italy, where in 2018 it was the 43rd most popular name for g ...

, 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.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 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

, the wife of Sultan

Selim II Selim II (; ; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as Selim the Blond () or Selim the Drunkard (), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem Sul ...

, and the queen mother of Sultan

Murad III Murad III (; ; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburg monarchy, Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Safavid Iran, Safavids. The long-inde ...

and a Prominent figure in the Ottoman History.

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