Barbaro family

[1]: 112  Various members were noted as church leaders, diplomats, patrons of the arts, military commanders, philosophers, scholars, and scientists.

[2]: 150 [3]: 275 Barbaro family tradition claims they were descended the Roman gens Catellia[3]: 274 [4]: 11  and more distantly from the Fabii.

[12]: 346  and Johannes Magadesi was a presbyter of the Church of San Zorzi in 982 and has also been cited as the first member of the Barbaro family that we have a historical record of.

[13]: 113  These families also acted as patrons of Battista Franco, Palladio, Francesco Salviati, Michele Sanmicheli, Giovanni da Udine, and Federico Zuccari.

[17]: 53 Sources agree that the modern Barbaro coat of arms is D'argent, au cyclamore de gueules, a red ring on a white field.

[3]: 503 [17]: 53 [18] The modern Barbaro family arms were officially recognized by the Venetian Senate in 1125 in remembrance of Marco Barbaro cutting off the hand of a Moor during a naval action near Ascalon and using the bleeding stump to draw a circle onto a turban, which he flew as a pennant from his masthead.

[4]: 12 [8]: 161 [9]: 87  Saracens boarded the galley he commanded and tore down the ship's flag, which bore the family coat of arms.

[4]: 12 [8]: 161  After the action, he changed his family name from Magadesi to Barbaro<[8]: 161  in recognition of the incident and to honor the heroism of his fallen enemies, who he considered barbarians.

[3]: 275  In 1560, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted Ambassador Daniele Barbaro right to use the Tudor Rose in his personal arms.