Condulmer family explained

The Condulmer were a Venetian family originally from Pavia.^[1] Originally wealthy commoners, the different branches of the family were only slowly admitted to the Venetian nobility. Marco Condulmer, a bread merchant, is recorded in 1297.^[2] In 1381, Jacopo Condulmer of the Domenico branch was ennobled for his contributions to the treasury during the War of Chioggia in 1379.^{[2] [3]} The Fernovelli branch was ennobled with the election of one of its own, Gabriele, as Pope Eugene IV in 1431.^[2] Still, in 1528, Zuan Francesco Condulmer had his name crossed out in the Libro d'Oro for his failure to prove his nobility.^[4] A third branch of the family, the Angelo, was ennobled only at the time of the Cretan War (1645–1669).^[2]

Notable members

• Angelo Condulmer, founded the hospital of Sant'Agnesina in 1383, father of Gabriele^[5]
• Polissena Condulmer, married a Barbo, mother of Paolo Barbo (1416–1462) and Pietro Barbo (Pope Paul II, 1417–1471)
• Gabriele Condulmer (1383–1447), served as Pope Eugene IV from 1431
• Francesco Condulmer (1390–1453), cardinal
• (1405/8–1460/5), bishop and patriarch
• Antonio Condulmer (1452–1528), politician and diplomat
• Elisabetta Condulmer (died 1538), courtesan^{[6] [7]}
• Giovanni Francesco Condulmer, podestà of Oderzo in 1577^[8]
• Tommaso Condulmer (1759–1823), naval officer

Further reading

• Stahl, Alan M. The House of Condulmer: The Rise and Decline of a Venetian Family in the Century of the Black Death. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.

Notes and References

1. [Patricia Fortini Brown]
2. Pietro Bosmin, "Condulmer", Enciclopedia Italiana (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 1931).
3. Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 176–177.
4. Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 10–11 (with image of the Libro).
5. Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), p. 209.
6. Monika Schmitter, "The Quadro da Portego in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art", Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 3 (2011), pp. 693–751.
7. Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 173–176.
8. Patricia Fortini Brown, Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 128–129 (with an image of his commission bound in tooled gilt leather).