Marco Polo's son-in-law kept his daughter's third of the Polo estate, and she won it back in court 42 years later

Marco Polo went to law over money in life as well. In 1311 he sued Paulo Girardo, an agent who was selling his musk for half the profits. Girardo had sold half a pound at 6 lire di grossi per pound and returned the rest underweight. The court ordered him to pay with costs, or go to the common jail. Polo's will of 9 January 1324 was written by the priest-notary Giovanni Giustiniani. It freed his servant Peter the Tartar and left him 100 lire. It gave his wife Donata 8 lire di grossi a year, her dowry and 3 furnished beds, and split the rest equally among daughters Fantina, Bellela and Moreta. Fantina's husband, Marco Bragadin, drew up the inventory, which listed 537 pieces of amber and a gold tablet "de comandamento". The estate was divided within about two months. Bragadin used Fantina's third and never accounted for it. She had it appraised in 1354. After Bragadin died, she sued the Procurators of St. Mark, who administered his estate. On 13 July 1366 (12 July in one source) the judges ordered her third repaid with profits. A 1319 will fragment shows a daughter, Agnese, whom Marco's will does not name. Polo asked to be buried at San Lorenzo. His remains lay in its chapel of St. Sebastian, which was demolished in 1580, and they have been missing since.