Jacopo Contarini

Jacopo Contarini's coat of arms

Jacopo Contarini (* around 1193 in Venice ; † April 6, 1280 there ) was the 47th Doge of Venice . He ruled from 1275 until his abdication on March 6, 1280.

family

Jacopo Contarini was after Domenico I. Contarini the second of eight Doges from the extensive Contarini family . In addition to the doges, there were a great number of procurators , cardinals , patriarchs , scholars and admirals named Contarini.

Three women from the family were married to Dogen: Elisabetta Contarini with Francesco Dandolo , Contarina Contarini with Nicolò Marcello and Cecilia Contarini with Sebastiano Venier .

The Doge's Office

Jacopo Contarini was elected Doge on September 6, 1275. He was already more than 80 years old and ailing, so he was obviously an embarrassment candidate. In his political career he had been ambassador to Constantinople and the Vatican , and he was the procurator of San Marco . Contarini was married and had four sons.

During his short reign there were quarrels with Rome over supremacy over Ancona , which the newly elected Pope Nicholas III. for himself, and who had received confirmation of his claims to the brands and Ancona from the German emperor in 1278 . With the threat of excommunication from Venice, the Pope tried to enforce his claims. Perhaps because he no longer felt himself to be able to cope with a dispute with the Pope, Contarini abdicated on March 6, 1280.

He died at the end of the year and was buried in the cloister of the Frari Church . His tomb has not been preserved; it was destroyed at the end of the 18th century.

swell

• Ester Pastorello (Ed.): Andrea Dandolo, Chronica per extensum descripta aa. 460-1280 dC , (= Rerum Italicarum Scriptores XII, 1), Nicola Zanichelli, Bologna 1938, pp. 321-327. ( Digital copy, p. 320 f. )

literature

Portrait of Jacopo Contarini by Antonio Nani , 1834

• Andrea Da Mosto : I dogi di Venezia , Venice 1939, reprint Florence 2003. ISBN 88-09-02881-3
• Claudio Rendina: I dogi. Storia e segreti , Rome 1984. ISBN 88-8289-656-0

Web links

Commons : Jacopo Contarini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

predecessor	Office	successor
Lorenzo Tiepolo	Doge of Venice 1275–1280	Giovanni Dandolo