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APP. B. THE TWO POLO FAMILIES

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command of a ship called the Giustiniana; forcing his way past the enemy's batteries into the Gulf of Prevesa, and cannonading that fortress. But he had to retire, being unsupported.

It may be added that a Francesco Paulo appears among the list of those condemned for participation in the conspiracy of Baiamonte Tiepolo in 131o. (Dandulo in Mur. XII. 4 i o, 49o.)

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[I note from the MS. of Priuli, Genealogie delle famiglie nobili di Venesia, kept in the R°. Archivio di Stato at Venice, some information, pp. 4376-4378, which permit me to draw up the following Genealogy which may throw some light on the Polos of San Geremia :—

ANDREA, of San Felice

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Marco Nicolò Maffio

of S. Grisostomo,
buried at S. Lorenzo.

I I I I

Marco Steffano Giovanni Maffio

(Milioni) I

Alm I rò of Maffio Marco Ni i olb

San Geremia

Nicolò of San Geremia

made a Nobleman, 4th Sept. 1381

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Maffio Marco Marin

I I

Marco + 1418

Governor of Castel Vecchio, at Verona.

Sir Henry Yule writes above (II. p. 507) that Nicolo Polo of S. Geremia had a brother Marco, and this Marco had a daughter Agnesina. I find in the Acts of the Notary Brutti, in the Will of Elisabetta Polo, dated 14th March, 135o :—

BETA = MARCO POLO [MARCOLINO ?]

of S. Grisostomo

Agnesina Christina Marina

Nicoleto. = Michaleto in the Monastery

of S. Lorenzo.

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The Maffio, son of Nicolò of S. Giov. Grisostomo, and father of Pasqua and Fiordelisa, married probably after his will (1300) and had his four sons : Almorò of S. Geremia, Maffio, Marco, Nicolò. Indeed, Cicogna writes (Insc. Ven. II. p. 39o) :—" Non apparisce che Maffeo abbia avuto figliuoli maschi da questo testamento [I300] ; ma per altro non è cosa assurda il credere che posteriormente a questo testamento 1300 possa avere avuti

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