Almorò Gradenigo (Ermolao)

Almorò Gradenigo, also called Ermolao, was a Venetian nobleman and a son of Doge Bartolomeo Gradenigo. In 1339 an agreement among leading families secured Bartolomeo's election, and at the Giants' Staircase Almorò, youngest of the ducal councillors, placed the crown on his father's head and, as a laudatory biography tells it, wept with emotion.

After the doge's death in 1342, the Major Council barred a living doge's brothers, sons and nephews from public office, ending the favours Bartolomeo had arranged for his sons.

In the autumn of 1350 Almorò was one of five patricians who escorted and watched over King Louis I of Hungary, Venice's rival for Dalmatia, as he crossed Venetian territory returning from Naples. In 1356 he sat among the forty-one electors who chose Giovanni Dolfin as doge.