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OTTONE ORSEOLO (d: 1032)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 331 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORSEOLO (d: 1032) , whose godfather was the See also:emperor See also:Otto III., became See also:sole See also:doge on his See also:father's See also:death in 1009. He married a See also:sister of St See also:Stephen, See also:king of See also:Hungary, and under his See also:rule See also:Venice was powerful and prosperous. One of his See also:brothers, Orso, was See also:patriarch of See also:Grado, another, Vitalis, was See also:bishop of See also:Torcello, but the growing See also:wealth and See also:influence of the Orseolo See also:family soon filled the Venetians with alarm. About 1024 Ottone and. Orso were driven from Venice, but when Orso's See also:rival, See also:Poppo, patriarch of See also:Aquileia, seized Grado, the exiled doge and his See also:brother was recalled and Grado was recovered. In 1026 Ottone was banished; he found a See also:refuge in See also:Constantinople, where he remained until his death, although in 1030 an See also:embassy invited him to return to Venice, where his brother Orso acted as See also:agent for fourteen months. Orso remained patriarch of Grado until his death in 1045, and another member of the Orseolo family, Domenico, was doge for a single See also:day in 1031. After the fall of the Orseoli the Venetians decreed that no doge should name his successor, or See also:associate any one with him in the dogeship. Ottone's son, Pietro, was king of Hungary for some See also:time after the death of his See also:uncle, St Stephen, in 1038. See Kohlschtitter, Venedig unter dem See also:Herzog See also:Peter II. Orseolo (See also:Gottingen, 1868); H. F.

See also:

Brown, Venice (1895); F. C. See also:Hodgson. The See also:Early See also:History of Venice (1901) ; and W. C. See also:Hazlitt, The Venetian See also:Republic (1900).

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