The Madi family (Croatian: Madijevci) was a patrician family from Zadar. They were influential in Croatian politics from the 10th to 12th centuries.[1]
Madius or Madije, the first known member, prior of Zadar and the proconsul of Dalmatia, rebuilt the monastery of St. Krševan in 986.[2] The only prior of Zadar before the Madi was Andrija, the founder of the St. Krševan Monastery, who died in 918.[3][4][5]
Čika and her daughter Domnana, the founders the Benedictine monastery of St. Maria in Zadar in 1066 which received privileges from the Croatian king Peter Krešimir IV.
Vekenega, the daughter of Čika, became a nun in 1072 and later the abbess of the convent.