Ghisi

The Ghisi were a Venetian noble family, said to originate in Padua or Aquileia, who rose as Latin lords in the Aegean after the Fourth Crusade. In 1207 Andrea Ghisi joined Marco Sanudo's conquest of the Cyclades and became lord of Tinos and Mykonos, holding them directly of the Latin Empire.

His brother Geremia seized Andros around 1239; Venice condemned the brothers in 1243 and exiled Andrea before reconciling with him in 1253. Later, George I Ghisi held Chalandritsa in Achaea and fell fighting the Catalan Company at the Cephissus in 1311.

His son Bartholomew II became a triarch of Negroponte and Grand Constable of Achaea; captured in 1320, he was held until 1325 and died in 1341. The island line continued to George III, the last Ghisi lord of Tinos, Mykonos and Negroponte, who died around 1390.