Iacopo Barozzi
Iacopo or Jacopo Barozzi was a Venetian nobleman and the first lord of Santorini in the Cyclades. He also served as Duke of Candia for the Venetian Republic.
Iacopo Barozzi was born in Venice, in the parish of San Moisè. After the conquest of Constantinople and the dissolution of the Byzantine Empire by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Barozzi seized the islands of Santorini and Therasia, becoming their lord and inaugurating a line that ruled the islands until the mid-14th century. According to later tradition, this happened in 1207, as part of the larger expedition led by Marco Sanudo which established the Duchy of the Archipelago, but no source actually mentions Barozzi as one of Sanudo's companions. Indeed the older sources do not even mention Barozzi swearing any allegiance for his fiefs to Sanudo as Duke of the Archipelago.
From 1244 to 1245, he served in the high gubernatorial office of Duke of Candia, in the Venetian colony of Crete. He is last attested, and probably died at about that time.
