Menčetić

The House of Menze or Menčetić (Italian: Mençe, Menze) was a noble family of the Republic of Ragusa in what is today known as Croatia.

Name

In the 15th century the surname was mostly spelt Mençe. The Slavic variant is Menčetić.

History

The family was said to come from Rome.

Notable members

• Mateo Grube di Menze (d. 1381)
• Johannes Blasius de Mençe (late 15th c.)
• Orsolin Nicolin de Mençe (fl. 1421)
• Šiško Menčetić (1457–1527)
• Pietro Menze (Petar Menčetić, 1451–1508)
• Placido Menze
• Klement Marijan Domini Antun Menčetić, born in Dubrovnik, on 4 January 1747, son of Vlaho Klement Menčetić and Nika Getaldić
• Vlaho Antun Menčetić, son of Klement Đivo Menčetić and Marija Viktorija Kabužić, born in Dubrovnik, on 26 July 1729 and died 1778

Sources

• Rheubottom, David (2000). Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-century Ragusa. Oxford University Press. pp. 172 ff. ISBN 978-0-19-823412-8.
• Marković, Savo (2016). "MENZE (MENČE), THE PATRICIANS OF BAR. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF ROMANCE-SLAVIC SYMBIOSIS". Istraživanja. 25: 89–109.
• Siebmacher. Dalmatien. pp. 12, 139.

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