Gian Giorgio Patrizi

Basic information

Patronymic
Niccolò di Matteo
Other names
Gian Giorgio de Petris and Petrisso
Genre
Male
Place of origin
Cres, Republic of Venice
Date of birth
1523 - 1524
Attributed date of birth
No
Age at the time of execution
46
Marital status
Married
Last occupation / Qualification
Nobleman
Previous occupations

Judge; local magistrate; title of knight; carpenter

Religious status
Layperson
Religious order
Accusations

Proceedings

Start date
1552
End date
1570 - 1571
Courts involved
Inquisition of Venice
Extradition
No
Other judges involved
Bishop of Osor
Notes

The records of the first trial (1552) have been lost.
Patrizi died in Venice prior to December 1571; see Rothkegel (2014).

Sentence

Court
Inquisition of Venice
Local judge
[Aurelio Schilino da Brescia]
Sentence date
1570 - 1571
Sentence place
Venice, Republic of Venice
Crime category
Formal heresy
List of crimes

Anabaptism; anti-Trinitarianism (the sentence has not survived)

Reason for conviction
Pertinacious / impenitent
Accessory penalties

Execution

Execution date
1570 - 1571
Authority
Execution place
Venice, Republic of Venice
Execution type
Drowned
In effigy
No
After death
No
Presence of doctors / surgeons
Unknown
Name of the doctors / surgeons
Presence of comforters
Unknown
Name of the comforters
Presence of rebels / riots
Unknown
Sacraments imparted
Unknown
Notes for execution

According to the contemporary chronicles of the Hutterites, Patrizi was said to have been secretly drowned.

Sources

Letters
Local inquisitorial trials and documents

Archivio di Stato di Venezia (ASV), Sant’Uffizio (SU), Processi, b. 17, fasc. “Gian Giorgio De Petris”; cit. in Rothkegel (2014); Stella (1969), p. 82.

ASV, SU, Processi, b. 159, testimony of Gian Giorgio Patrizi, 14 October 1570; cit. in Stella (1969).

 

Decrees and acdf sources
Legal opinions consultations
Registers of the condemned
Other magistracies
Petitions
Confraternities
Medical treatises
Polemical histories and martyrologies

Braght, Thieleman J. van, Het Bloedig Tooneel, of Martelaers Spiegel, Amsterdam, eds. Hieronymus Sweerts, Jan ten Hoorn, Jan Bouman, Daniel van den Dalen, 1685, p. 344; cit. in Rothkegel (2014).

Theological and legal texts
Collections of sermons
Printed or manuscript notices and reports
Chronicles
Travel diaries
Notarial acts and wills
Expense registers and economic documents
Memorial documents epitaphs etc
Iconography
Other

Josef Beck, Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn, Wien, Carl Gerold’s Sohn, 1883, p. 249; cit. in Rothkegel (2014).