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Sebastiano Venier (or Veniero) (c. 1496 – 3 March 1578) was Doge of Venice from 11 June 1577 to 3 March 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.〔(Ancestry of Sultana Nur-Banu (Cecilia Venier-Baffo) )〕 He was a paternal grandson of Moisé Venier (ca. 1412 - ca. 1476).〔Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza,'' Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople'', Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 446〕 He was the great-great-great-grandson of Pietro Venier, Governor of Cerigo,〔Mihail-Dimitri Sturdza, ''Dictionnaire Historique et Généalogique des Grandes Familles de Grèce, d'Albanie et de Constantinople'', Paris: Sturdza, 1983, p. 445〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sebastiano Venier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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