Nicolò Venier (ca. 1483 – 1530) was a Lord of Paros in 1518-1530.
He was a son of Zuan Francesco Venier, Co-Lord of Cerigo and his wife Fiorenza Sommaripa, Lady of Paros, and had a sister Cecilia, 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.[1] There are speculations that he was the biological father of Italian concubine Cecilia Venier-Baffo, who was captured and sold into slavery. Then she became Nurbanu Sultan, the wife of Sultan Selim II, and the queen mother of Sultan Murad III.
References
- ^ 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
