Emperor Baldwin I was captured, Count Louis I of Blois was killed, and the Venetian Doge Enrico Dandolo led the surviving portions of the crusader army into a hasty retreat back to Constantinople, during the course of which he died of exhaustion.
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Their Doge took the title quartae partis et dimidiae totius imperii Romaniae dominator or "Lord of a quarter and a half part of the whole Roman Empire".
To hinder their enemies, each faction may hire slanderers to ruin the popularity of their opponents, arsonists to torch villas and warehouses, and assassins to remove inconvenient senators, cardinals, the Doge or even the Pope.
The new church of St Mark was built between the old chapel of St Theodore and the Ducal Palace.
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960: Doge of Venice Pietro IV Candiano reconvened the popular assembly and had it approve of a law prohibiting the slave trade
As a journalist, he has been a foreign correspondent of L'Europeo, and he also wrote historical and adventure books, including La taverna del doge Loredan (1980), La partita (1986) and the latest Il ponte della solita ora (2006).
Alicia Giustiniani, was the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Francesco Donato (r. 1545-1553).
However the portrait in the Frick Collection by Gentile Bellini, inscribed with his name, is now considered to be of his successor, Doge Giovanni Mocenigo.
In Venice, he has two major works: a monument to Carlo Goldoni (1883) in Campo San Bartolommeo and a monument to Doge Sebastiano Venier (1907) in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo.
The Most Serene Prince Antoniotto Adorno (1340 – Finale Ligure, 1398) was the 6th doge of the Republic of Genoa and rose four times to this supposedly lifelong position.
The second, Carminibus festos/O requies populi, was written for the doge Francesco Foscari, who assumed the post in 1423.
The following evening, Doge Agostino Barbarigo and the Venetian Senate received a report in which they were told that the Venetian army had not been destroyed, but that the result of the battle was uncertain because they had many casualties and deserters, but they did not know the enemy casualties.
The doge of Venice, Francesco Foscari, was seriously considering helping Florence in their conflict against Milan, and Carmagnola spurred this on, persuading the doge to name him general in a new war against Milan.
One reason was that both sexes from the nobility mixed freely at the casinos, which represented a development the Inquisition wished to stop: women of the Venetian nobility had formerly seldom been allowed to mix with men, but during the 18th century, this underwent a sharp contrast, a development which started when Chiara, Maddalena and Laura Contarini, daughters of doge Domenico II Contarini, had stopped using the zoccoli.
There are two Jacobean chairs, and a richly inlaid one of cypress wood, the seat opening to form a chest; it is thought to be the throne of a Venetian Doge of the 14th century.
Constance of Sicily, was a Sicilian Princess and the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Pietro Ziani (r. 1205-1229).
As such, on March 4, 1694, Elisabetta Querini appeared clad in a cloth of gold robe adorned with sable, with a white veil and corno ducale, (the version of ducal crown worn by the Doge and his wife) adorned with jewels, and a large diamond cross on her chest.
Felicita Maria di Boemodo of Antioch, was a Princess of Antioch and the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Vital II Michele (r. 1156-1172).
His task as doge was to lead Venice in a long and protracted series of wars against Milan, governed by the Visconti, who were attempting to dominate all of northern Italy.
Himself remained in office only two weeks until the exiled Montaldo family returned and Antoniotto di Montaldo was elected as the new doge.
He was a member of the family of the last Doge of Genoa, and was born three years after the name of the Adorni was suppressed, and the office of Doge abolished.
Giovanni II Participazio, thirteenth (historical) or fifteenth (traditional) Doge of Venice
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Giovanni I Participazio (died 837), tenth (historical) or twelfth (traditional) Doge of Venice
Giovanniccia Candiano, also called Giuliana, was a Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Pietro IV Candiano (r. 959-976) and mother of Vitale Candiano.
Little is known about his life, except that he was probably in Venice during the 1420s, for he wrote ceremonial music for Doge Francesco Foscari, and also his music appears in several collections from that city.
The ball's name derives from the title of the elected heads (Doge, Duke in English) who ruled Venice up until the fall of the Venetian republic in the 18th Century.
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Il Ballo del Doge (The Doge’s Ball) is the most elegant and exclusive Venetian masquerade ball, one of the many events held annually during the Carnival of Venice.
Leonardo Montaldo or di Montaldo (1319 – 14 June 1384), politician and statesman who became the 7th doge of the Republic of Genoa.
Le pont des soupirs ("Ah! le Doge, ah! Les plombs, le canal Orfano l'Adriatique, c'est fini je suis folle")
During his reign as Doge, he was content to host banquets and festivals, and he gained a reputation for going to church so often that he was given the nickname of "St. Zuanino" or "the Doge of the Te Deum".
Grimani may have been related to the powerful Grimani family, perhaps to Pietro Grimani, who negotiated an alliance between Charles VI and Venice (of which Pietro was later doge) against the Turks, in the same year that Maria's Pallade was performed at court.
Nicolò Guarco (Parodi, c.1325-Lerici, c.1385) was a Genoese politician and statesman who became the 7th doge of the Republic of Genoa and led the Republic through the War of Chioggia against Venice.
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The same year, he is for the first time made a member of the council of the ancients, the closest advisors to the doge.
In the 1473 election for doge, Marcello prevailed against the future doges Pietro Mocenigo and Andrea Vendramin.
In 1361, he was named superintendent of construction for the Doge's palace, and helped in construction along with Filippo Calendario.
Pomellina (or Pomelline) was a member of the noble Fregoso (or Campofregoso) family of Genoa, which included several doges of Genoa among its members.
Some of the greatest examples of the recumbent effigy in Westminster Abbey in London, Saint Peter's in Rome, Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice (twenty-five Doges), and the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence.
The Municipal Bank is a copy of the Child Doge's Palace in Venice, while the Palace of Culture was inspired by the Taj Mahal in Agra; among the well-known halls in the latter building the Carlos Moneo Sáenz Doll Museum.
It was founded in the early 8th century, allegedly by St. Magnus of Oderzo; in the following century, under doge Pietro III Candiano, it was rebuilt to house the alleged relics of St. John the Baptist, to whom it is entitled, and again in 1178.
There was originally a statue of the Doge Agostino Barbarigo (Doge 1486-1501) kneeling before the lion, but in 1797, after the city had surrendered to Napoleon, this was removed by the French, who were purging the city of all symbols of the old regime.
Valdrada of Sicily, was a Sicilian Princess and the Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Jacopo Tiepolo (r. 1229-1249).
Doge Vitale I Michiel appointed his son, Vitale Giovanni, and the Bishop of Castello, Enrico Contarini, as the fleet’s commanders.
Her daughter Marina became the Dogaressa of the Doge Tribuno Memmo, but he was deposed in 990, after which Marina became a nun.
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Valdrada (Gualdrada) of Tuscany (died 997), was a Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Pietro IV Candiano (r. 959-976).
William's victory at Karydi, coupled with a victory of his troops against the Venetians near Oreoi, brought an effective end to the conflict; on 6 August 1258, Guglielmo da Verona and Narzotto dalle Carceri consented to begin negotiations for peace through the Doge of Venice, and in early 1259, the Doge authorized the new bailo, Andrea Barozzi, to sign a treaty with William.