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Pietro II Orseolo, 26th doge of Venice

Italian: Pietro II Orseolo, 26°doge di Venezia
Also Known As: "Péter"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Venice, Veneto, Italy
Death: September 1009 (44-53)
Venice, Veneto, Italy
Place of Burial: St Zacharia
Immediate Family:

Son of St. Peter Orseolo, 23th doge of Venice and dogaressa Felicia Orseolo
Husband of dogaressa Maria Orseolo
Father of Giovanni Orseolo, dux Dalmatiae; Orso Orseolo, vescovo di Torcello, patriarca di Grado; Otto Orseolo, 27th doge of Venice; Felicia Orseolo, abbatissa; Domenico Orseolo, doge usurper and 3 others
Brother of .... Morosini and .... Gradenigo

Occupation: 991-1009
Managed by: Bernard Raimond Assaf
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About Pietro II Orseolo, 26th doge of Venice

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_II_Orseolo


-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/VENICE.htm#PietgroOrseoloIIdied1009A

PIETRO Orseolo [II], son of PIETRO Orseolo [I] Doge of Venice & his wife Felicia Malipiero ([960]-1009, bur St Zacharia). The Chronicon Venetum records that "Petrum, antedicti domni Petri Ursiuli ducis sobelem" was elected Doge in succession to Tribuno Menio in 991, when he was aged 30[83]. He negotiated favourable trading advantages with Byzantium, with Venetians present in Constantinople being subject direct to the Grand Logothete. Otto III King of Germany granted Venice the right to establish warehouses and trading stations along the banks of the Piave and the Sile together with tax exemption on imperial territory, confirmed by charters of "Otto…rex" to "Petrus dux Ueneticorum" dated 19 Jul 992, 1 May 995 and 1 May 996[84]. He also established trading connections with Muslim Spain, Egypt, Syria and Sicily. Faced with threats to Byzantium's outpost towns in Dalmatia, both from pirate raids and from Samuil Tsar of Bulgaria who by 997 had conquered Durazzo and much of Duklja and Serbia, Basilios II Emperor of Byzantium requested Venetian help to defend its interests and in 998 recognised the Doge Pietro Orseolo as the Emperor's official representative in Dalmatia, according him the title dux of Dalmatia and the honorary position of proconsul[85]. "Henricus…rex" confirmed privileges to Venice granted by his predecessors to "dux Veneticorum et Dalamtianorum Peterus…cum filio suo Iohanne similiter duce" by charter dated 16 Nov 1002[86]. Andrea Dandulo´s Chronicon Venetum records the death aged 48 of "Petrus…dux" and his burial "in ecclesia Sancti Zachariæ"[87].

m MARIA, daughter of ---. The Chronicon Venetum names "Maria" as wife of "Petrus dux" but does not give her origin[88].

Pietro [II] & his wife had ten children:

  • 1. GIOVANNI Orseolo ([983]-Venice 1005, bur San Zaccaria). ... m (Constantinople [1003]) MARIA Argyre, daughter of --- Argyros & his wife --- (-Venice 1005, bur San Zaccaria).
    • ...
  • 2. HICELA Orseolo . ... m (after [1000]) STJEPAN of Croatia, son of SVETOSLAV King of Croatia.
  • 3. ORSO Orseolo ([987]-1049). ... Bishop of Torcello 1008:
  • 4. PIETRO Orseolo ([989]-Constantinople 1031). ... Confirmed as "OTTONE" at Verona 996, Emperor Otto III subsequently acting as his sponsor[104]. ... m ([1009]%29 --- of Hungary, daughter of GÉZA Prince of Hungary & his second wife Adelajda of Poland ([989]-1026). ... - KINGS of HUNGARY.
  • 5. FELICIA . ...
  • 6. daughter . ...
  • 7. VITALE Orseolo ([997]-). ... Bishop of Torcello 1017
  • 8. son. ... He adopted the name "ENRICO" when Emperor Heinrich II acted as sponsor at his confirmation in 1004 at Verona[119].
  • 9. daughter (1001-).
  • 10. DOMENICO Orseolo (-after 1032). ... m (before 25 Jan 1015) as her first husband, IMMILIA, daughter of UGO Conte di Padova e Vicenza & his wife Immilia --- (-after 25 Jan 1015). ... Domenico & his wife had four children:
    • ...

http://genealogy.euweb.cz/italy/orseolo.html

Orseolo family

One Pietro Orseolo had issue:

  • A1. Domenico; m.Emilia, dau.of Vitale Candiano
  • A2. Saint Pietro I Orseolo, Doge of Venice (976-978) abdicated, +981; m.Felicia Malipiero
    • B1. Pietro II Orseolo, Doge of Venice (991-1008), *961, +1008; m.Maria N
      • C1. Giovanni, *985, +1006; m.Maria, dau.of Romanos Argyropulos, Emperor of Byzantium
        • D1. Bazil, +1006
      • C2. Hicela (Joscella); m.Stjepan of Croatia
      • C3. Otone Orseolo, Doge of Venice (1008-26), abdicated; m.Maria of Hungary (Ilona) (+1026), dau.of Géza of Hungary
        • D1. Pietro, King of Hungary (1044-46) as Pétér, -cr 1038, *1011, +30.8.1059, bur Pécs; 1m: Tuta, dau.of Gf Ruprecht von Regensburg (+after 1046); 2m: 11.4.1055 Judith von Schweinfurt (+2.8.1058)
        • D2. Froizza (? Frowila), +17.2.1071; m.shortly before 1041 Mgve Adalbert I of Austria (+1055)
      • C4. Enrico
      • C5. Felicia
      • C6. Domenico, fl 1032
        • D1. Ugo
        • D2. Pietro
        • D3. Felicia; m.Nicolo Bembo
      • C7. Vitale, Bp of Toscello
      • C8. Orso, Bp of Toscello, Patriarch of Grado, +1045
      • C9. a daughter
      • C10. a daughter
      • C11. a daughter
    • B2. a daughter; m.Giovanni Morosini
    • B3. a daughter; m.Giovanni Gradenigo