Pietro Loredan (Admiral)

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Pietro Loredan (* 1372 in Venice , † October 28, 1438 in Venice) was a Venetian admiral .

Pietro Loredan came from the noble Venetian family of the Loredan and was one of at least seven sons of the later procurator of San Marco Alvise and a Giovanna. Pietro's marriage had at least five sons. In Venice's war against the Ottoman Empire, he defeated the Turkish fleet as an admiral in the naval battle of Gallipoli in May 1416. After winning the victory, he sent a report to Venice that the Turkish fleet would no longer pose a threat to Venice for a long time, a report that turned out to be premature.

Loredan was elected Procurator of San Marco in 1426. In the election for Doge, he was defeated by Francesco Foscari and was the leader of the opposition to the offensive policy initiated by the Doge, but already rejected by his predecessor Tommaso Mocenigo , with the aim of permanent expansion and the expansion of the Terraferma in northern Italy. After Foscari had slipped out in a heated Senate debate just a few months earlier that proper governance was not possible as long as “this devil lived on a Loredan”, when the admiral died, the rumor was spread that the Doge had let him be poisoned. Loredan died of an illness.

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  2. a b Reinhard Lebe : Success and tragedy of a doge. In: Back then. Vol. 28, 1996, No. 4, ISSN  0011-5908 , p. 16.