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Sagredo Family project collects profiles of all descendants of the Venetian Sagredo family, and people with the surname Sagredo. Also profiles of close friends and supporters, and people closely related to Sagredos, are welcome. (This project was started Jan 27th 2019)
There are large Sagredo families also in Spain, South-America and elsewhere. They are possibly branches of the Venetians. A Spanish-South-American branch descends from Leonor de Sagredo, whose son is born in Spain and grandson Cristóbal Sagredo de Molina Santiesteban in 1582 already in Chile.
The Sagredos were a Venetian patrician family, counted among the so-called New Houses. In the second half of the seventeenth century they gave the Republic a doge, Nicolò Sagredo (1606 - 1676).
According to the legend, the Sagredos were originally from ancient Rome and later passed to Dalmatia where they were involved in the local administration. The surname derives from 'secretum', from the secrets that they shared with the emperors about the government of the region. In 840 they would have left Sibenik to reach Venice, being aggregated to the Maggior Consiglio in 1110. According to the family tradition San Gerardo Sagredo di Csanád (c. 980 - 1046), the evangelizing bishop of Hungary, and later a saint, belonged to this family, but this cannot be verified.San Gerardo Sagredo di Csanád (c. 980 - 1046)
Legends aside, the first attestations of the family appear in public records around the year one thousand and in private deeds in 1012, under the name of Secreti and Segredi.
They were among the most influential, wealthy and powerful aristocratic families of Venice for almost the entire duration of the Serenissima Republic, reaching the height of their power during the seventeenth century. The family gave birth not only to the above mentioned doge but also to military commanders, politicians and ecclesiastics, among them Alvise, the Patriarch of Venice.Giovanni Francesco Sagredo (1571-1620), a philosopher and mathematician, and close friend of Galileo
Nicolò Sagredo (1606 - 1676) Doge of Venice and his brother Alvise Sagredo (1617 - 1688) Patriarch of Venice
After the fall of the Serenissima, the imperial government of Vienna confirmed the nobility of the various branches of this family with the Sovereign Resolutions dated 1817, 1819 and 1820. Giovanni Gerardo (1740 - 1822), of Francesco Sagredo, obtained for himself and for his descendants the title of count of the Austrian Empire.
The Sagredo family is devided into two main branches, Santa Ternita and Santa Sofia.
This branch descends from Pietro Sagredo, who probably died before 1600.
In the mid- seventeenth century King Louis XIV granted the family to affix on the coat of arms the three lilies of France, for the merits of Giovanni di Agostino (1616 - 1682), ambassador in the Alps.
It is the line that descends from Bernardo di Giovan Francesco, even if the first to move to the palace of Santa Sofia was Nicolò di Zaccaria - the only doge given by the house. Previously they lived in Palazzo Trevisan Cappello, a place where Galileo Galilei set the Dialogue above the two greatest systems of the world, placing Gianfrancesco Sagredo di Stefano among the interlocutors.
The Sagredo of Santa Sofia became extinct in 1738, with the death without male heirs of Gerardo Sagredo.
At the time, the family assets were organized into two fidecommessi. The first, established by the patriarch Alvise di Zaccaria, was sold to the Senate with an agreement signed by the widow Cecilia Grimani Calergi and her daughters Caterina and Marina. The other, established by Gerardo himself, was intended for male nephews only, but all died prematurely; he was then inherited by a distant relative, Francesco Sagredo of the "Santa Ternita" branch.La famiglia Sagredo, by Pietro Longhi (c. 1752). (Left to right: Cecilia Grimani Calergi, her daughter Marina with a grandson Almoro II Pisani, and her daughter Caterina with granddaughters Cecilia and Contarina, and a servant)
Lezione di geografia, by Pietro Longhi. (Left to right: Cecilia and Contarina Barbarigo, their tutor, and their mother Caterina Sagredo. San Gregorio Barbarigo, the Cardinal-Bishop, in frames on the wall.)
Villa Sagredo, Vigonovo, Venice, built in the1500's
The farm of Villa Sagredo, Vigonovo, Venice