Venetian Consuls in England

Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 1, 1202-1509. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1864.

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'Venetian Consuls in England', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 1, 1202-1509, (London, 1864) pp. cxxx-cxxxi. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol1/cxxx-cxxxi [accessed 20 April 2024]

TABLE No. 3.

Venetian Consuls in England.

Consul's Name. Date of Employment. Documentary evidence of the Appointment.
Andrea de Molino (Vice Consul) 1410 Missive from the Senate to Antonio Bembo. Misti Senato, vol. 48, p. 142.
Hugh Rys (Venetian Consul at Sandwich) probably a British subject. 1427 Parchment broadside certificate, in the Venice Archives.
Andrea Cornaro 1440 Senate's Registers “Sea,” vol. 2, p. 107.
Marco Barbarigo 1448–49 February 15 ” ” ” vol. 3. p. 99.
Bertuccio Contarini 1456–1460 ” ” ” vol. 5. p. 167.
” ” ” vol. 6, p. 42.
” ” ” p. 163.
Bernardo Giustinian 1463–64 ” ” ” vol. 7, p. 150.
Marco da Ca da Pesaro 1468 ” ” ” vol. 9, p. 13.
Paulo Tiepolo 1471–72 ” ” ” vol. 9, p. 125.
Perrigo de Priuli 1480 ” ” ” vol. 11, p. 89.
Alvise Contarini 1481–82 ” ” ” vol. 11, p. 128.
Pietro Trevisan 1487 March 8 ” ” ” vol. 12, p. 107.
Piero Contarini 1490 March 11 Deliberazioni Senato, vol. 34, p. 59.
Lorenzo Pisani 1492 December 14 Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 13, p. 103.
Almorò Griti 1494–95 Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 82–90.
Nicolò Giustinian 1495 April 3 Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 57.
Piero Contarini 1495 Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 82.
Almorò Pisani 1496 Marin Sanuto's Diaries, passim.
Thomaso Oure (Consul at Hampton) probably a British subject. 1498 April 18 Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 14, p. 60.
Andrea Bragadin 1499 Marin Sanuto's Diaries, vol. 2, p. 612.
Piero Tlepolo 1501 Senate's Registers, “Sea,” vol. 15, p. 160.
Andrea Bragadin 1502 ” ” ” ”
Nicolò Giustinian 1503–4 Deliberazioni Senato vol. 39, p.153, 27 January 150–4.
Pietro Tiepolo 1507 Maria Sanuto's Diaries, vol. 7, p. 190.
Lorenzo Giustinian 1509 Marin Sanuto's Diaries, vol. 8. p. 16, and p. 23.
Lorenzo Pasqualigo 1510 until March ” ” ” vol. 9, p. 393.
Ferigo Morosini 1510 April 13 ” ” ” vol. 10, p. 241.
Lorenro Pasqualigo 1512 March ” ” ” vol. 14, p. 187.
Hieronymo Molin 1532 ” ” ” Date 6 April 1532.
—Erizzo 1533 ” ” ” Date 16 June 1533.
Gio. Da Ca Da Pesaro 1568 Original letter from Queen Elizabeth in the Venice Archives, date Oatlands, 29 June 1570.

The foregoing list, imperfect as it is, has been formed with much difficulty. As the elections were annual, the missing names must be very numerous, unless we suppose the same persons were frequently re-elected. All those in my list, except Rys and Oure, had their residence in London; and often seem to be styled indifferently consuls or vice-consuls.

The only documentary evidence hitherto discovered by me to prove the re-election of any consul in. the 14th and 15th centuries relates to Piero Contarini, who held that post in London in March 1490, and the same name occurs in the same office in 1495–96.

In November 1457 the Senate confirmed the election of Bertuccio Contarini for an indefinite period, in order that he might wind up the accounts of the factory, and on the 28th March 1460 the Senate, on finding he had not completed his task, directs that his successor should be elected within the space of one month, for the usual term “per unum annum.”

In Queen Elizabeth's time, Giovanni Pesaro retained the consulate without question for many years.

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