title: Menčetić
text: # Menčetić
  
  The House of Menze or Menčetić (Italian: Mençe, Menze) was a noble family of the Republic of Ragusa in what is today known as Croatia.
  
  ## Name
  
  In the 15th century the surname was mostly spelt Mençe. The Slavic variant is Menčetić.
  
  ## History
  
  The family was said to come from Rome.
  
  ### 15th century
  
  The family was ranked 9th of the 10 largest Ragusan houses. The Menze inter-married mostly with the women from the Bona and Gondola family.
  
  ## Notable members
  
  * Mateo Grube di Menze (d. 1381)
  * Johannes Blasius de Mençe (late 15th c.)
  * Orsolin Nicolin de Mençe (fl. 1421)
  * Šiško Menčetić (1457–1527)
  * Pietro Menze (Petar Menčetić, 1451–1508)
  * Placido Menze
  * Klement Marijan Domini Antun Menčetić, born in Dubrovnik, on 4 January 1747, son of Vlaho Klement Menčetić and Nika Getaldić
  * Vlaho Antun Menčetić, son of Klement Đivo Menčetić and Marija Viktorija Kabužić, born in Dubrovnik, on 26 July 1729 and died 1778
  
  ## Sources
  
  * Rheubottom, David (2000). Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-century Ragusa. Oxford University Press. pp. 172 ff. ISBN 978-0-19-823412-8.
  * Marković, Savo (2016). "MENZE (MENČE), THE PATRICIANS OF BAR. A CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF ROMANCE-SLAVIC SYMBIOSIS". Istraživanja. 25: 89–109.
  * Siebmacher. Dalmatien. pp. 12, 139.
  * 1 2 Rheubottom 2000, p. 172.
  * ↑ Rheubottom 2000, p. 62.
  * ↑ Rheubottom 2000, p. 73.
  * ↑ Rheubottom 2000, p. 105.
  * ↑ Rheubottom 2000, p. 82.
  * ↑ Rheubottom 2000, p. 154.
  