Bragadin family

Tradition relates that the Bragadins came from the island of Veglia, today known as Krk in Croatia, of which they were lords, and numbers them among the twenty-four tribunician houses that elected the first doge Paoluccio Anafesto.^[1] Other traditions claim that they arrived in the Lagoon in 800 and that, originally called Barbalin, they changed their surname and coat of arms in 890.^[2]

Remaining included in the patriciate after the ordinances of the Great Council Lockout in 1297 established which families were part of the hereditary nobility of the council,^[1] the family was always represented in the highest offices of the Republic of Venice, especially between the 15th- and the 16th-century, but also gave numerous ecclesiastics and men of culture.^[3]

Among the many more illustrious personalities, mention should be made of Vittore, defender and then reconqueror of Verona during the war against Filippo Maria Visconti; Andrea, distinguished himself in the taking of Cyprus; Marcantonio Bragadin, distinguished himself in the defense of Famagusta against the Turks and became the emblem of Venetian martyrdom in the struggle against the Turks; Domenico, lecturer in philosophy, theology and mathematics, teacher of Luca Pacioli; Alvise Bragadin, who opened a famous printing house for Hebrew books and was involved in the Bragadin-Giustiniani dispute.^[3][4] The Bragadin family became one of Venice’s leading Hebrew print-shops and was active from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.^[4]

• Bartolomeo Bragadin poet, died in 1507; his tomb is located on the counter-façade of the church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in Venice;
• Marcantonio Bragadin (1523–1571), soldier;
• Marcantonio Bragadin (1591–1658) cardinal;
• Matteo Bragadin (1689–1767), politician;
• Vincenzo Bragadin (1691–1762), bishop;
• Giovanni Bragadin (1699–1775), patriarch of Venice;
• Marcantonio Bragadin (1906–1986), admiral;
• Vittorio Bragadin (1920–1941), pilot, gold medal for Military Valor

• Derived from Italian wikipedia entry