Niccolò Tonisto
Venetian nobleman and duke of Crete
About Niccolò Tonisto
Niccolò Tonisto was a 13th-century Venetian nobleman and administrator. He is the most illustrious member of the Tonisto patrician family.
Life Niccolò Tonisto is first referred to as podestà of Capo d'Istria (present-day Koper, Slovenia) in 1222. He served as bailo in Acre in 1227. He was Duke of Crete from 1230 to 1232, then podestà of Verona in 1233. He functioned as podestà of Ragusa (present-day Dubrovnik, Croatia) between 1238 and 1240.
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