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Rosanne said:It was a Burgi Mameluk who was ruler of Venice.
When, exactly was a Mameluk, Doge of Venice?
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Rosanne said:It was a Burgi Mameluk who was ruler of Venice.
I was curious about that too.conversus said:When, exactly was a Mameluk, Doge of Venice?
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Unfortunately, though, playing cards do not rank very high in the minds of most historians and so the passages translated said nothing..
Here's what I found:Rosanne said:Mameluk Dynasty 1250-1517- then absorbed into the Ottoman Empire.
The last Mamluk Doge was Francesco Foscari ( 1423–57).
That's very interesting for a city where the noble families were all listed in a book that tracked them extremely carefully. Do you think a Mamluk Egyptian family managed to get Francesco's name inserted into the book with a fake lineage that was accepted by the other families as having a "long lineage"? What a story - a whole city conspiring to fake a Muslim family as an old Catholic Venetian one so that the Muslim Turks could take over Venice. Wow! I don't mean to be sarcastic, but it would be an incredible feat - to have a Turkish/Egyptian Muslim boy of 18 come to Venice and by 50 be elected doge of a city with perhaps the most rigorous laws regarding family and inheritance that ever existed - and have his Venetian lineage accepted as fact.Rosanne said:Hi Mary!
That is what I thought until I got to Venice and when reading about the Foscari family- it was said they were Mamluks.