Cornaro family

The Cornaro, also known as Corner, are a patrician family in Venice, from which for centuries senior office-holders and Doges sprung.

Members include

Andrea Cornaro (died 1323), Margrave of Bodonitsa

Marco Cornaro (c. 1286 – 1368), doge 1365-68

Luigi Cornaro (c. 1464 – 1566), who wrote treatises on dieting

Giorgio Cornaro (1452–1527), brother of Caterina Cornaro

Caterina Cornaro (1454–1510), Queen of Cyprus from 1474 to 1489

Francesco Cornaro (1476–1543), Cardinal from 1527

Marco Cornaro (1482–1524), cardinal from 1500

Cardinal Federico Cornaro (1579–1653), Patriarch of Venice in 1631-1644

Giovanni I Cornaro (1551–1629), doge from 1624

Francesco Corner (1585–1656), doge in 1656

Giovanni II Cornaro (1647–1722), doge from 1709

Giovanni Cornaro (1720–1789), cardinal from 1778

They had eight palaces on the Grand Canal, Venice at different times, and commissioned many famous monuments and works of art, including Bernini's Ecstasy of St Theresa in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome (1652). In Greece the island of Scarpanto was their fief from the early 14th century until the Ottoman conquest.

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