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Morosini were a noble
VenetianVenice is a city in northern Italy, the capital of the region Veneto, a population of 271,367 . Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area . The city historically was an independent nation...
family, probably of
HungarianHungary , in English officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU, V4 and is a Schengen state...
extraction, that gave many
dogeDoge is a dialectal Italian word that descends from the Latin dux , meaning "leader", especially in a military context. The wife of a Doge is styled a Dogaressa.The title of Doge was used for the elected chief of state in a number of Italian "crowned republics"...
s, statesmen, generals and admirals to the
Venetian RepublicThe Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797...
, and
cardinalA cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and making themselves available...
s to the
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. It first became prominent at the time of the emperor Otto II owing to its rivalry with the Caloprini family, which it subjugated by the end of the 10th century.
- Domenico Morosini
Domenico Morosini was the thirty-seventh doge of the Republic of Venice, reigning from 1148 until his death in 1156.Descendant of a noble family , Morosini succeeded in reconciling the two factions that had divided Venetian patrician families for years, thus ending a political conflict that had...
(d.1156), elected doge of VeniceThe Doge was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. Commonly the person selected as Doge was the shrewdest elder in the city...
in 1148, waged war with success against the DalmatiaDalmatia , is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and is situated in modern Croatia. It spreads between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor, in Montenegro, in the southeast...
n corsairCorsairs were French privateers . Since the corsairs gained a swashbuckling reputation, the word corsair is also used generically as a more romantic or flamboyant version of the word privateer, or even of the word pirate...
s, recapturing PolaPula is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 62,080 ....
and other IstriaCroatian Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...
n towns from them.
- Tomasina Morosini
Tomasina Morosini Queen Mother of Hungary, mother of Andrew III the Venetian King of Hungary.-Life:She was the daughter of Michele Sbarra Morosini Patrician of Venice. In 1263 she married Stephen the Posthumous Prince of Hungary in Venice, who lived in exile in Venice...
(c1250-1300), mother of king Andrew III of HungaryAndrew III the Venetian , King of Hungary .-Early years:He was born in Venice, the grandson of Andrew II of Hungary , being the only son of Andrew II's youngest and posthumous son , Stephen, Duke of Slavonia who was born of the old king's third marriage with Beatrice d'Este...
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The
Morosini were a noble
VenetianVenice is a city in northern Italy, the capital of the region Veneto, a population of 271,367 . Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area . The city historically was an independent nation...
family, probably of
HungarianHungary , in English officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU, V4 and is a Schengen state...
extraction, that gave many
dogeDoge is a dialectal Italian word that descends from the Latin dux , meaning "leader", especially in a military context. The wife of a Doge is styled a Dogaressa.The title of Doge was used for the elected chief of state in a number of Italian "crowned republics"...
s, statesmen, generals and admirals to the
Venetian RepublicThe Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice in Northeastern Italy. It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797...
, and
cardinalA cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and making themselves available...
s to the
ChurchThe Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church. With more than a billion members, over half of all Christians and more than one-sixth of the world's population, the Catholic Church is a communion of the Western, or Latin Rite Church, and...
. It first became prominent at the time of the emperor Otto II owing to its rivalry with the Caloprini family, which it subjugated by the end of the 10th century.
- Domenico Morosini
Domenico Morosini was the thirty-seventh doge of the Republic of Venice, reigning from 1148 until his death in 1156.Descendant of a noble family , Morosini succeeded in reconciling the two factions that had divided Venetian patrician families for years, thus ending a political conflict that had...
(d.1156), elected doge of VeniceThe Doge was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. Commonly the person selected as Doge was the shrewdest elder in the city...
in 1148, waged war with success against the DalmatiaDalmatia , is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and is situated in modern Croatia. It spreads between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor, in Montenegro, in the southeast...
n corsairCorsairs were French privateers . Since the corsairs gained a swashbuckling reputation, the word corsair is also used generically as a more romantic or flamboyant version of the word privateer, or even of the word pirate...
s, recapturing PolaPula is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 62,080 ....
and other IstriaCroatian Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...
n towns from them.
- Tomasina Morosini
Tomasina Morosini Queen Mother of Hungary, mother of Andrew III the Venetian King of Hungary.-Life:She was the daughter of Michele Sbarra Morosini Patrician of Venice. In 1263 she married Stephen the Posthumous Prince of Hungary in Venice, who lived in exile in Venice...
(c1250-1300), mother of king Andrew III of HungaryAndrew III the Venetian , King of Hungary .-Early years:He was born in Venice, the grandson of Andrew II of Hungary , being the only son of Andrew II's youngest and posthumous son , Stephen, Duke of Slavonia who was born of the old king's third marriage with Beatrice d'Este...
. Her sister Constanza was married with king Stefan Vladislav II of SyrmiaStephen Vladislav II was a Serb monarch, king of Syrmia and claimant to the whole Serbia.-Life:...
.
- Marino Morosini
Marino Morosini was the 44th doge of Venice. He governed from 1249 to 1253.- Family :Marino was one of four members of the Morosini family to be elected doge. The other three were Domenico Morosini , Michele Morosini and Francesco Morosini...
(1181-1252) was elected doge in 1249.
- Michele Morosini
Michele Morosini was the Doge of Venice for a few months, from 10 June to his death in October the same year.Born in one of the most important Venetian families, Morosini was extremely wealthy...
(1308-1382) was doge from June 1382, until his death in October of the same year.
- Morosina Morosini-Grimani
-History:Morosina Morosini-Grimani was Dogaressa of Venice from 1595 to 1606. She was the daughter of Andrea Morosini, a wealthy Venetian patrician. She was married in 1560 to Marino Grimani. With her husband's election as doge in 1595, her own coronation as official consort was conducted with...
(1545-1614), wife of doge Marino GrimaniMarino Grimani was the 89th Doge of Venice, reigning from April 26, 1595 until his death. Grimani's reign as doge was principally remembered for two reasons: the splendid celebrations for the coronation of his wife, Morosina Morosini; and the beginning of the quarrel with the papacy that...
- Andrea Morosini (1558-1618) was a famous historian and was entrusted by the Venetian senate with the task of continuing Paolo Paruta
Paolo Paruta was a Venetian historian and statesman.-Biography:He was born at Venice of a Luccan family. After studying at Padua he served the Republic of Venice in various political capacities, including that of secretary to one of the Venetian delegates at the Council of Ten...
's Annali Veneti, in Latin. His history of Venice was published by his brother in 1623, and translated into ItalianItalian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, and by a total of around 70 million in the world. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City...
by Senator Girolamo Melin (Venice, 1782). Among his other works are: Le Imprese ed espeditioni di terra santa, &c. (Venice, 1627); Deus quae Veneta respublica ad Istriae oras gessit, &c. (in the Corner-Duodo collection of MSS.); De forma reipublicae Venetae in MS. in the Bibliothèque Nationale in ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. His life has been written by Luigi Lollin (1623), by Niccolo Crasso (1621), and by Antonio Palazzoli (1620).
- Francesco Morosini
Francesco Morosini was the Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694, at the height of the Great Turkish War. He was a member of famous noble Venetian family which produced several Doges and generals. -Early career:...
(1618-1694) was a prominent Venetian sea captains of his time. As a young man he fought against the TurksThe Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299 to November 1, 1922 The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِیَّهِ عُثْمَانِیَّه Dawlet-il ʿAliyyat-il ʿOs̠māniyye, Modern Turkish:...
and the pirates, and after signally distinguishing himself at the Battle of NaxosAt the Battle of Naxos the new Athenian fleet of Chabrias decisively defeated the Spartans. This was the beginning of Athens's recovery of its Aegean hegemony following its loss in the Peloponnesian War. The victory was decided by Phocion's courageous and skillful action on the left wing...
in 1650 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Venetian navy. He then conducted a series of successful campaigns against the Turks, but was recalled in consequence of the intrigues of his rival the provveditore Antonio BarbaroAntonio Barbaro was a military leader and member of the patrician Barbaro family of Venice, Italy.- Life :He served in Candia , Crete during the long-lasting Siege of Candia. He was "Captain of the Gulf" from 1655-1656, and in 1667 he became provveditore generale of Candia.He also served in the...
(1661). But when CandiaHeraklion or Iraklion , is the largest city and capital of Crete. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a transliteration of the ancient Greek and Katharevousa name, , or Iraklio, among other variants...
was attacked by a large force, under the terrible vizierA vizier is a high-ranking political advisor or minister, often to a Persian Empire's monarchs such as Shah and Shahenshah. It sometimes refers to ministers and advisors of the Muslim's caliph, or sultan...
Keuprili, Morosini was sent to relieve the fortress in 1667; the siege lasted eighteen months, but Morosini, in spite of his prodigies of valour, was forced to surrender to save the surviving inhabitants. He was tried, but acquitted of all blame, and on the renewal of the war with the Turkish Empire in 1684 he was again appointed commander-in-chief, and after several brilliant victories he reconquered the Peloponnesus and AthensAthens , the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
. Unfortunately, during the siege of Athens, shells from Morosini's bombardment irreparably damaged the ParthenonThe Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena whom the people of Athens considered their protector. It was built in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development...
. Upon his return to Venice, he was loaded with honors and given the title of Peloponnesiaco. In 1688 he was elected doge, and in 1693 he took command of the Venetian forces against the Turks for the fourth time; the enemy which had been cruising in the archipelagoAn archipelago is a chain or cluster of islands that are formed tectonically. The word archipelago is directly derived from the Greek arkhon and pelagos...
withdrew at his approach, so great was the terror inspired by his name. While wintering at Napoli di Romania (Nauplia) he died on 6 January 1694.
- Dana Morosini Reeve
Dana Reeve was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was also the wife of actor Christopher Reeve.-Early life and family:...
(1961-2006), Singer and actress,