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Sebastiano Venier, 86th doge of Venice

Italian: Sebastiano Venier, 86°doge di Venezia
Also Known As: "Sebastianas Venieras"
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Birthplace: Venice, Veneto, Italy
Death: March 03, 1578 (81-82)
Venice, Veneto, Italy (Heart attack when the Doge's Palace burned down)
Place of Burial: Venice, Veneto, Italy
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Son of Moisè Venier and Elena Venier
Husband of dogaressa Cecilia Venier
Ex-partner of (No Name)
Father of Elena Morosini; Filippo Venier, prete and Marco Venier
Brother of Leonardo Venier

Occupation: 1577-1578
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About Sebastiano Venier, 86th doge of Venice

Sebastiano Venier (or Veniero) (c. 1496 – March 3, 1578) was Doge of Venice from June 11, 1577 to March 3, 1578.

Biography

Venier was born in Venice around 1496. He was a son of Moisè Venier and Elena Donà, and a nephew of Zuan Francesco Venier, Co-Lord of Cerigo. He was a paternal grandson of Moisé Venier (ca. 1412 - ca. 1476). He was the great-great-great-grandson of Pietro Venier, Governor of Cerigo, and wife.

He worked as a lawyer from a very early age, though without holding formal qualifications, and subsequently was an administrator for the government of the Republic of Venice. In 1570 he was procurator and, in the December of the same year, capitano generale da mar ("Chief admiral") of the Venetian fleet in the new war against the Ottoman Turks.

He was the commander of the Venetian contingent at Battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571), in which the Christian League decisively defeated the Turks. After the peace he returned to Venice as a very popular figure, and in 1577, at the age of 81, he was unanimously elected Doge.

He was married to Cecilia Contarini, who bore him a daughter, Elena Venier, and two sons. One of his sons, Francisco Venier, went to France.

Sebastiano Venier died in 1578, allegedly of broken heart after a fire that had heavily damaged the Doge's Palace of Venice. He was interred in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges.

Relations

He was a first cousin once removed of Cecilia Venier-Baffo, known as Nurbanu Sultan after her conversion to Islam, daughter of his first cousin Nicolò Venier, Lord of Paros. He sold her to the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in 1536 in order to counter the ascension of Roxelana. She became eventually the wife of his rival Selim II and the mother of Murad III, from whom descend all succeeding Sultans.


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