Madi family
Croatian noble family
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Notable members
- Madius or Madije, the first known member, prior of Zadar and the proconsul of Dalmatia, rebuilt the monastery of St. Krševan in 986.[2] The only prior of Zadar before the Madi was Andrija, the founder of the St. Krševan Monastery, who died in 918.[3][4][5]
- Jelena, Croatian queen, wife of king Michael Krešimir II of Croatia, died in 976.
- Grgur or Dobronja, prior of Zadar, died in 1035. Tried to make Dalmatian city-states independent from Byzantine Empire.
- Čika and her daughter Domnana, the founders the Benedictine monastery of St. Maria in Zadar in 1066 which received privileges from the Croatian king Peter Krešimir IV.
- Vekenega, the daughter of Čika, became a nun in 1072 and later the abbess of the convent.