Tommaso Mocenigo
Tommaso Mocenigo (* around 1343 in Venice ; † April 4, 1423 there ) was the 64th Doge of Venice . He reigned from 1414 to 1423. Under his rule grew Venice next to Milan, Florence, Naples and the Papal States to one of the five political and economic powers of Italy. The supremacy of the republic over the Adriatic was secured by victories against the Hungarians , the Ottoman Empire and by curbing piracy. Politically and economically, the Serenissima was at the height of its power and fame.
family
Tommaso Mocenigo came from the ramified Mocenigo family , from which six other members were later elected Doge : Pietro Mocenigo (1474–1476), one of Venice's great sea and war heroes, Giovanni Mocenigo (1478–1485), Alvise Mocenigo I. (1570-1577), Alvise Mocenigo II. (1700-1709), Alvise Mocenigo III. (1722-1732) and Alvise Mocenigo IV. (1763-1778). After the Contarini , the Mocenigo provided the most doges.
The family came from Milan and had been admitted to the status of the nobili before the serrata , the closure of the Great Council in 1297 . She owned a complex of four buildings, the Palazzo Mocenigo , on the Grand Canal.
Life
Tommaso had amassed a great fortune trading with the Levant . For the republic he fought in the Chioggia war against Genoa as commander of a warship, in 1395 he distinguished himself as capitan general da mar at the head of the fleet. He was also ambassador to Geneva and to the German emperor and procurator.
He wasn't married.
The Doge's Office
Tommaso Mocenigo was ambassador to the Roman-German King Sigismund in Cremona when he was elected Doge in absentia on January 7, 1414.
His reign was marked by successes in foreign policy, territorial expansion and an economic boom . Due to the Venetian expansion in the Terraferma , the Aquileian Patriarchate and in Dalmatia , the relationship to the empire was strained. In 1413 and 1417 Mocenigo allied itself in this connection with the Tyrolean Duke Friedrich IV. In
1416 there was the first great sea battle between the Turks and the Venetians, which resulted in a series of sieges, sea battles and battles until the final defeat of the republic in the 18th century followed, in which the victory sometimes fell to one side, sometimes to the other. This time, the victor in the battle off the island of Kallipolis in the Dardanelles was Venice under Captain General Pietro Loredan . In the contracts that followed with the Sultan , Venice was given a free hand for its maritime trade.
Tomb
Mocenigo was buried in San Zanipolo . The tomb, created around 1500, is one of the most important works of the Venetian sculptor and architect Pietro Lamberti .
literature
- Andrea Da Mosto : I dogi di Venezia. Florence 2003, ISBN 88-09-02881-3
- Helmut Dumler: Venice and the Doges. Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 978-3538071162
Individual evidence
- ^ Hannes Obermair : Venice in Tyrol. The Venetian lead seal from Tyrol Castle . In: Tyrol - Austria - Italy. Festschrift for Josef Riedmann on the occasion of his 65th birthday (Schlern-Schriften 330), ed. by Klaus Brandstätter and Julia Hörmann, Innsbruck: Wagner 2005. ISBN 978-3703004001 , pp. 525-531. ( Digitized on academia.edu with images of Mocenigo's lead bull).
Web links
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Michele Steno |
Doge of Venice 1414 - 1423 |
Francesco Foscari |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mocenigo, Tommaso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | 64. Doge of Venice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1343 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venice |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1423 |
| Place of death | Venice |