Lorenzo Tiepolo

Lorenzo Tiepolo's coat of arms

His grave.

Lorenzo Tiepolo († August 15, 1275 in Venice ) was the 46th Doge of Venice . He ruled from 1268 to 1275.

family

Two doges emerged from the family, Lorenzo's father Jacopo Tiepolo was also a doge.

His grandson was the famous Baiamonte Tiepolo , one of the main participants in a failed uprising of dissatisfied families who were excluded from the exclusive circle of families that the Doges elected or were eligible for at the serrata des maggior consiglio .

Life

Tiepolo had held outstanding positions in the republic during his career. In the conflict with Genoa he was captain general of the fleet ( capitan general da mar ). As such, he destroyed a Genoese fleet in the war of Saint-Sabas off Palestine . In addition, he also held the post of podesta of Treviso , Padua , Fermo and Fano . A part of the precious spoils of St. Mark's Basilica probably originates from Tiepolo's forays into the Near East .

His first marriage was to Agnese Ghisi and his second marriage to a daughter of a ruler of the Balkans. The second woman brought the Doge a rich dowry with possessions near Constantinople . After his death, this led to a tightening of the doge's promissio , in which exactly his duties, duties and rights are listed, and which from now on were prohibited from accepting fiefs from foreign rulers or from marrying non-Venice women.

The Doge's Office

The miter, coat of arms of the Tiepolo family, crowned by the doge's hat. Detail of the tomb of Doges Jacopo († 1249) and Lorenzo Tiepolo († 1275), in the Basilica of St. Giovanni and Paolo in Venice.

Lorenzo was elected in absentia. He was the first doge to be elected according to the newly introduced complicated electoral system (for the electoral procedure, see Doge of Venice ).

During his reign he was able to expand Venice's influence in the Mediterranean region. A war against Bologna ended successfully for Venice and Istria came under Venetian rule. A series of treaties resulted in a - temporary - peaceful coexistence between the two rivals Genoa and Venice.

Since the more or less binding Cremona Agreement of 1270, Venice has considered itself the rightful ruler of the Adriatic . A new office was set up, the Capitano del golfo , which was equipped with its own "police fleet " to monitor trade in the Adriatic.

Lorenzo Tiepolo died on August 15, 1275 and was buried in San Zanipolo with great sympathy from the population . He rests in the same sarcophagus as his father.

swell

• Ester Pastorello (Ed.): Andrea Dandolo, Chronica per extensum descripta aa. 460-1280 dC , (= Rerum Italicarum Scriptores XII, 1), Nicola Zanichelli, Bologna 1938, pp. 315-321. ( Digitized, p. 314 f. )

literature

• 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
• Helmut Dumler: Venice and the Doges. Düsseldorf 2001.

Web links

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predecessor	Office	successor
Renier Zen	Doge of Venice 1268–1275	Jacopo Contarini