Tito Venier

Tito Venier was a Venetian feudatory on Crete and a leader of the 1363 Revolt of Saint Titus, the first Cretan rising in which Venice's own Latin colonists took part. When the Senate pressed new taxes on Crete, the Venier and Gradenigo families led the revolt.

They arrested the Duke of Candia, set up the Commune of Crete and raised the banner of Saint Titus. Venice sent an army which retook Candia in May 1364.

Proscribed with his brother Teodorello, Tito renewed the rising in western Crete that August. When the other rebel chiefs were captured and tortured to death after the famine of 1365, Tito alone escaped by leaving the island.