Triadan Gritti

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Triadan Gritti
Born 1390
Died 1474
Nationality Venetian
Occupation diplomat and military officer
Known for being Venetian captain-general

Triadan Gritti was the 15th century Venetian nobleman who was Venetian captain general and commander-in-chief of Scutari.

Diplomatic and military career

In 1451 Gritti was Venetian ambassador at Papal States.[1]

When news about Ottoman preparations for the siege of Scutari reached Venice in early 1474 Triadan Gritti, who was 84 years old then, was appointed as Venetian captain general instead of Pietro Mocenigo.[2] Gritti led the Venetian fleet of six galleys which sailed early in May 1474 to protect the coast of Albania Veneta and especially the mouths of river Bojana.[3] By summer Gritti's forces were joined by the fleet commanded by Mocenigo who left Cyprus after first securing Caterina Cornaro as queen.[2] Gritti and Mocenigo were co-commanders of the Venetian relief forces sent to Scutari.[4]

Ottoman forces attempted to block the Venetian fleet in Bojana by clogging the mouth of Bojana with a cut tree trunks, just like Serbian voivode Mazarek did during Second Scutari War. Gritti returned his fleet down the river and destroyed Ottoman forces on 15 June 1474.[5] In Scutari Gritti and Mocenigo ordered to Leonardo Boldu to find Ivan Crnojević and to urge him to mobilize as many of his men as possible to help Venetians during the 1474 Siege of Scutari. Boldu was also ordered to transport Crnojević's cavalry and infantry over Lake Scutari.[6]

After the discovery of the treason committed by Andreas Humoj, a member of Humoj family, during the Siege of Scutari, Gritti sentenced him to death and had him executed by a man from Tuzi.[7] Despite all of his efforts, Gritti was not able to deliver to Scutari all goods his fleet carried because many of them were trapped in the shallow waters of Bojana near Sveti Srđ.[8]

Death

Gritti and Bembo died of malaria in 1474 in Kotor. They both accounted it during the siege of Scutari in 1474 when they participated in some skirmishes with Ottoman forces near the mouth of river Bojana.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Godišnjica Nikole Čupića. Štampa Državne štamparije Kraljevine Jugoslavije. 1888. p. 157. Retrieved 7 December 2013. "Баш је у то доба био на шапином двору млетачки посланик Тријадан Грити. 27. Новембра 1451. сакупи се вијеће и одлучи, да Гриту пошљу пријепис папиног писма..." 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Franz Babinger (1992). Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time. Princeton University Press. p. 334. ISBN 978-0-691-01078-6. Retrieved 4 December 2013. 
  3. ↑ Babinger, Franz (1992), Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time, Princeton University Press, p. 334, ISBN 9780691010786 
  4. ↑ John Freely (2009). The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II - conqueror of Constantinople, master of an empire and lord of two seas. I.B. Tauris. p. 136. ISBN 978-1-84511-704-7. Retrieved 4 December 2013. "When news of the attack reached Venice the Senate sent a fleet under the joint command of Triadan Gritti and Piero Mocenigo, who sailed seven of their galleys up the Bojana to Shkoder, leaving the rest on patrol off the Albanian coast." 
  5. ↑ Božić 1979, p. 380
    У близиниушћа покушали су да затворе реку, као што je 1422. годинечинио и деспотов командант Мазарек. Једноставно су насе-кли дрвеће и побацали га у реку да би затворили излаз. Три-јадан Грити није смео дозволити да му непријатељ блокирафлоту у реци
  6. ↑ Imber, Colin (1990), The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1481, Istanbul: Isis Press, p. 219, ISBN 9789754280159, OCLC 22297448, "When the commanders of the fleet — Triadan Gritti and his predecessor as Captain-General, Piero Moccnigo — met in Albania, they commissioned a certain Leonardo Boldu to find one of the lords of the country to the north of Lake Shkoder, John Chcrnojcvich, "a man of great following and authority," and exhort him to gather as many men as possible. They ordered Leonardo to transport these, with his own infantry and cavalry, across the lake to relieve Shkoder,..." 
  7. ↑ Schmitt, Oliver Jens (2001), Das venezianische Albanien (1392-1479), München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag GmbH München, p. 492, ISBN 3-486-56569--9, "Rätselhaft erscheint vor diesem Hintergrund das Schicksal Andreas Humojs: Er beging verrat und wurde von Generalkapitan Triadan Gritti zum tode verurteilt. Das urteil vollstreckte ein Tuzi." 
  8. ↑ Božić 1979, p. 380
    ни Тријадан Грити није могао опседнутом граду дапошаље помоћ којом су били натоварени бродови укотвљенипод Светим Срђом

Sources

Preceded by
Pietro Mocenigo		 Venetian captain general
1474 – 1474 		Succeeded by
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