Iacopo II Barozzi
Iacopo or Jacopo II Barozzi was a Venetian nobleman and the third lord of Santorini in the Cyclades. He also occupied several high-ranking colonial positions for the Venetian Republic.
Iacopo Barozzi was the firstborn son of Andrea Barozzi, the second lord of Santorini and Therasia. These fiefs had been conquered by the Byzantine Empire in the 1270s, and Iacopo's early career was as a colonial administrator for the Venetian Republic in the Aegean: in the early 1290s he served as rector of Chania in the Venetian colony of Crete, then as Bailo of Negroponte from August 1295 to 1297, and finally as Duke of Candia in Crete from 1301 to 1303.
Iacopo tried to use his position to recover his father's domains from the Byzantines. In 1301, the Duke of Naxos, William I Sanudo, who considered himself as the feudal overlord of the island, was preparing an expedition to recover Santorini. Its fate is unclear, but in a treaty concluded between Venice and the Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos in 1302, Venetian possession of the island was recognized. Iacopo was restored to his position as dominator insularum Sancte Erini et Thyrasie, but recognized only Venice, not the Duke of Naxos, as his suzerain. As a result, the latter seized Iacopo as he was passing through his domains at the end of his tenure as Duke of Candia. The Great Council of Venice promptly intervened and ordered Iacopo's release. Iacopo retired to Candia, where he died in 1308.
