[4][5][6][7] In the 15th century Emmanuel Mormori is mentioned, a rich landlord in Nauplion who was married to a lady from the Bua family.
The named is mentioned in the sixteenth century either as Mormori or as Murmuri and it appears that the family was active at Nauplion, where it originate.
[10] In various contemporary reports Mormoris himself frequently praises the Greeks as well as various members of his family in their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.
[6] The father of Emmanuel Mormoris, Jacomo, was a cavaliere in the Venetian army and commander of the Stratioti units of Crete.
[11] As part of the revolutionary preparations the provveditore of Corfu, Sebastiano Venier, provided arms and ammunition to the Greeks of Himara.
[18] Soon after the anti-Ottoman movement was spread to the adjacent regions of Argyrokastron (modern Gjirokastër), Delvina and Parga with the military guidance of the local Greek nobility and a number of Stratioti,[19] such as Petros Lantzas and Georgios Renesis.
[19] In addition, the inhabitants of nearby Himara also supported the uprising and submitted voluntarily to Venetian rule,[16] while making use of the advantageous mountainous terrain of their homeland.
[22] However, the rebels met difficulties during the siege of nearby Nivice which lasted nearly one year due to lack of the necessary preparations and artillery support.
[24] Mormoris was the author of several military reports on the subject of the construction of a wide network of fortifications in the Ionian islands and Crete.