Nicolò Venier

Nicolò Venier (1483-1530) was a Lord of Paros from 1520 until his death in 1530. He is believed to have been the father of Nurbanu Sultan who served as the Haseki sultan and the Valide sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the maternal grandfather of Ottoman Sultan Murad III, born from an adulterous relationship with Violante Baffo. He was the son of Zuan Francesco Venier, Co-Lord of Cerigo and his wife Fiorenza Sommaripa, Lady of Paros, and had a sister Cecilia, who succeeded him to the lordship of Paros.

In 1507 Venier married a woman named Zantano, by whom he had a son Andrea Venier, who died during his father's life. There are speculations that, Violante Baffo was the biological father of Italian concubine Cecilia Venier-Baffo, who was captured and sold into slavery. Then she became Nurbanu Sultan, the wife of Sultan Selim II, and the queen mother of Sultan Murad III and a Prominent figure in the Ottoman History.