Aldo Morosini was born on 3 September 1883 in Venice/Italy (He was 35 years old in 1918 when he returned to Venice after WW1)

« This is the first physical description of Aldo in  «The Blue Star/l'étoile bleue » :

« Taking a pair of tortoiseshell brushes, Aldo began to discipline his thick black hair, where a few not really unpleasant silver threads were already mixed towards the temples near his matt skin plated on an arrogant bone that would have suited a Condottiere (note: Mercenary leader).
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Only his eyes, sometimes of a steel blue tending towards green in anger, always carefree and easily mocked, kept all the youth, as his white teeth that occasionally revealed an insolent smile.»

Famous Morosini ancestors :

Doge of Venice :
Francesco Morosini, great commander of the Venetian fleet, who was also Doge in 1688 - 1694



Francesco Morosini, Capitan Generale Della Serenissima Republica di Venetia. Cau, e Procuratore di San Marco.
(Date given for the above drawing, the 17th Century)

Italy celebrating the 400th Anniversary of  Francesco Morosini with a Commemorative stamp on 26 February 2019

Doge of Venice (born February 26, 1619 in Venice) ancestor of Aldo Morosini. « The greatest of the Morosiniˈs » as Juliette Benzoni wrote in the first volume 'The Blue Star' of the The Hunchback of Warsaw Tetralogy.

Genealogy

Father : Prince Enrico Morosini - Venetian, died in France in the forest of Rambouillet at the home of the Duchess of Uzès
Mother : Princess Isabelle de Montlaure - French, from Languedoc, died in 1917...

Spouse(s):
Princess Anielka (born Comtesse Solmanska) of Polish origin - who was before her marriage to Prince Aldo, Lady Ferrals, widow of Sir Eric Ferrals, one of the richest men in Europe.

Princess Lisa (born Kledermann) - Swiss, of Austrian origin, who was first his secretary in disguise under the name of Mina Van Zelden from Sweden !

Children : with his second wife Lisa - The twins Antonio and Amélia, born in 1926 and Marco, born in 1929

Maternal family :
Godmother and aunt of his mother, the Marquise Amélie de Sommières
Marie-Angéline du Plan-Crépin, cousin of Mme de Sommières - Lectrice and Maid of Honour

Paternal Family:
his great aunt Princess Félicia Morosini, née Orsini (we find this charming character in « Les Loups de Lauzargues »), who died at the Palace of the Morosini's when Aldo was thirteen years old.

His cousin: the Countess Adriana Orseolo, (widow of Count Tommaso Orseolo) - daughter of the only brother of Prince Enrico, Aldo's father.

Family of Princess Lisa

Father of Lisa  :
Moritz Kledermann - Swiss of Austrian origin - a wealthy, world-class Swiss banker from Zurich, Switzerland. Owner of the famous Kledermann Collection.

Mother of Lisa :
an Austrian countess (daughter of Countess Valérie Von Adlerstein), who was a lovely woman but of poor health. (the Author gave no name for Lisa's Mother.)

Stepmother of Lisa :
Princess Dianora (daughter of a Danish baron - her first husband was a Venetian nobleman, Count Vendramin, who was killed in a duel. Dianora and Aldo were lovers before he left for war. While he was away, she married the wealthy Swiss banker Moritz Kledermann.

Maternal family :
Lisa's grandmother : the Countess Valérie Von Adlerstein, lives in the Adlerstein Palace in Vienna or at her castle Rudolfskrone near Bad Ischl (Austria), nicknamed Aunt Vivi by Friedrich von Apfelgrüne.

Lisa's cousin : Friedrich or Fritz von Apfelgrüne - grand-nephew of the Countess Von Adlerstein (grandson of her sister whom we never meet in he Novels).

Hilda von Apfelgrüne - wife of Friedrich von Apfelgrüne.

Paternal family :
her cousin - Gaspard Grindel (son of Belinda, sister of her father Moritz Kledermann) Gaspard is director of the French branch of Kledermann's bank in Paris.

Adventure companion :
Adalbert Vidal-Pellicorne - Archaeologist and man of letters. Aldo Morosini's best friend, whom his wife Lisa calls « the more than  brother » 

April 2013 : ©Genealogy : team-work Frédérique and Linda 2017