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Catholic in faith, calm in purity, strong in justice, eminent in religion, decorous in his manner of life, well-endowed with wealth and possessions, and so filled with all forms of virtue that he was universally considered to be the most fitting successor of his father and
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capital to find Otto on the verge of death and he died before he could return to Venice. Orso resigned the temporal power as soon as news reached Venice, while a relative,
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from 1022 to 1023. But in that latter year, Poppo sacked the patriarchal palace and church in Grado and the
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547:Norwich, John Julius
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1459:Giovanni II Cornaro
1368:Francesco Contarini
880:Pietro III Candiano
875:Pietro Participazio
832:Orso I Participazio
672:Marcello Tegalliano
551:A History of Venice
124:Grimelda of Hungary
37:Domenico Tintoretto
1494:Alvise IV Mocenigo
1443:Alvise II Mocenigo
1433:Francesco Morosini
1373:Giovanni I Cornaro
1241:Agostino Barbarigo
1201:Pasquale Malipiero
1139:Giovanni Gradenigo
936:Domenico Flabanico
885:Pietro IV Candiano
870:Pietro II Candiano
776:Domenico Monegario
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378:to be their doge.
376:Domenico Flabanico
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1348:Marcantonio Memmo
1312:Sebastiano Venier
1307:Alvise I Mocenigo
1231:Giovanni Mocenigo
1195:Francesco Foscari
1118:Francesco Dandolo
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1277:Francesco Donato
1257:Leonardo Loredan
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1092:Pietro Gradenigo
1087:Giovanni Dandolo
1082:Jacopo Contarini
1036:Orio Mastropiero
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1297:Girolamo Priuli
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