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Pietro IV Candiano, 22th doge of Venice

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  • Name Pietro IV Candiano 
    Suffix 22th doge of Venice 
    Born Abt 925  Venice, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 959-976 
    Died 11 Aug 976  Venice, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Address:
    Abbazia di Sant'Ilario
    Venezia, Veneto Venezia
    Italy 
    Notes 
    • {geni:about_me} -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_IV_Candiano

      Pietro IV Candiano (died 976) was the twenty-second (traditional) or twentieth (historical) Doge of Venice from 959 to his death. He was the eldest son of Pietro III Candiano, with whom he co-reigned and whom he was elected to succeed.

      By associating his son with him in the dogeship, Pietro III was trying to establish a hereditary monarchy in Venice. This incurred the wrath of the people, who, in a popular assembly, tried to kill the doge. Pietro IV intervened to save his father's life and exiled him with a small group of followers to Ivrea, where the Margrave Guy took him to his father, the king of Italy, Berengar II.

      Pietro III then participated with Guy in an expedition against Theobald II, Duke of Spoleto, and gained the support of Berengar for an assault on Venice. At the head of a band of partisans, Pietro IV defeated his father, but did not kill him. He was then elected sole doge.
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      (a) PIETRO Candiano [IV] (-murdered Summer 976, bur Sant' Ilario). The Chronicon Venetum records that "Petrus dux" had three sons, of whom "unum nomine Petrum", whom his father associated in the Dogeship[58]. He was banished after quarrelling with his father. He enlisted in the army of Guido Marchese di Ivrea, who was crowned King of Italy in 950, during which he attacked Venice. He was elected Doge in 959 in succession to his father. "Petro…Duce…cum Vitale…Patriarcha filio suo" abrogated trading agreements with the Saracens by charter dated Jul 971, signed by "…Dominicus Urseolo, Petrus Urseolo…"[59]. The Venetians rebelled against him in 976 when he ordered them to defend his personal interests in the Ferrarese. Numerous buildings were destroyed or damaged by fire in their attempts to expel Pietro from his palace.

      '''m''' firstly (divorced) ---.

      '''m''' secondly WALDRADA of Tuscany, daughter of UBERTO Marchese of Tuscany & his wife Willa di Spoleto (-after 976). The Chronicon Venetum names "Hugonis marchionis sororem Hwalderada" when recording her marriage to Pietro[60]. She brought lands in Friuli, the March of Treviso, Adria and the Ferrarese to Venice as her dowry. She escaped when her husband and child were murdered. She sought refuge at the German Imperial court from where she claimed the return of her dowry from Venice, for which she was given full financial compensation from the proceeds of a tithe levied on all Venetians. Pietro & his first wife had one child:
    • Pietro IV Candiano
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Pietro IV Candiano (died 976) was the twenty-second (traditional) or twentieth (historical) Doge of Venice from 959 to his death. He was the eldest son of Pietro III Candiano, with whom he co-reigned and whom he was elected to succeed.

      Contents [hide]
      1 Rise
      2 Dogado
      3 Death
      4 Sources

      [edit] Rise
      By associated his son with him in the dogeship, Pietro III was trying to establish a hereditary monarchy in Venice. This incurred the wrath of the people, who, in a popular assembly, tried to kill the doge. Pietro IV intervened to save his father's life and exiled him with a small group of followers to Ivrea, where the Margrave Guy took him to his father, the king of Italy, Berengar II.

      Pietro III then participated with Guy in an expedition against Theobald II, Duke of Spoleto, and gained the support of Berengar for an assault on Venice. At the head of a band of partisans, Pietro IV defeated his father, but did not kill him. He was then elected sole doge.


      [edit] Dogado
      One of his first acts as doge was the blinding and expulsion of the bishop of Castello, accused of simony. In June 960, he reconvened the popular assembly and had them approve of a law prohibiting the slave trade.

      For political reasons, Pietro repudiated his first wife, Joan, forcing her into the convent of Santa Zaccaria. He had had two children through her: his son Vitale was later elected doge and his daughter was married to Tribuno Memmo, a future doge. In 966, Pietro remarried to the Lombard Waldrada, daughter of Hubert, Duke of Spoleto, and a relative of the Emperor Otto I. As a relative also of the king of Italy, Waldrada brought him a large dowry including the possession of Treviso, Friuli, and Ferrara.

      On 2 December 967, Pietro obtained from the emperor the renewal of a series of commercial pivileges, for the Venetians in general, but also for himself and his family in particular. While this tightened the ties with the empire of the West, it greatly angered the emperor of the East, John I. John threatened war if the Venetians would not stop contrabanding with the Saracens against whom John was then battling fiercely on multiple fronts. In 971, Pietro had to consent to end the trade with the Moslems.


      [edit] Death
      In 976, Otto I, protector of Pietro IV, died. His successor, Otto II, was busy with revolts in Germany and so the Venetians opposed to Pietro found their opportunity to depose him then. They locked him in his ducal palace and set it on fire. However, the fire spread to the Limitrofe and to Saint Mark's. Shortly, a greater part of the city was burnt. The doge and his young son by Waldrada, Pietro, were killed and their bodies thrown in the slaughterhouse, but were after recovered and respectfully buried in the church of Sant'Ilario. Waldrada survived and the succeeding doge, Pietro I Orseolo, left her her inheritance in order not to irk the emperor and direct his attention to recent events and their perpetrators in Venice. Vitale, surviving son of Pietro IV, fled to Saxony, where he conspired against the new doge.


      [edit] Sources
      Norwich, John Julius. A History of Venice. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1982.



      Preceded by
      Pietro III Candiano Doge of Venice
      959-976 Succeeded by
      Pietro I Orseolo
    • By associating his son with him in the dogeship, Pietro III was trying to establish a hereditary monarchy in Venice. This incurred the wrath of the people, who, in a popular assembly, tried to kill the doge. Pietro IV intervened to save his father's life and exiled him with a small group of followers to Ivrea, where the Margrave Guy took him to his father, the king of Italy, Berengar II.
      Pietro III then participated with Guy in an expedition against Theobald II, Duke of Spoleto, and gained the support of Berengar for an assault on Venice. At the head of a band of partisans, Pietro IV defeated his father, but did not kill him. He was then elected sole doge.
      One of his first acts as doge was the blinding and expulsion of the bishop of Castello, accused of simony. In June 960, he reconvened the popular assembly and had them approve of a law prohibiting the slave trade. For political reasons, Pietro repudiated his first wife, Joan, forcing her into the convent of Santa Zaccaria. He had had two children through her: his son Vitale was later elected doge and his daughter was married to Tribuno Memmo, a future doge. In 966, Pietro remarried to the Lombard Waldrada, daughter of Hubert, Duke of Spoleto, and a relative of the Emperor Otto I. As a relative also of the king of Italy, Waldrada brought him a large dowry including the possession of Treviso, Friuli, and Ferrara.
      On 2 December 967, Pietro obtained from the emperor the renewal of a series of commercial pivileges, for the Venetians in general, but also for himself and his family in particular. While this tightened the ties with the empire of the West, it greatly angered the emperor of the East, John I. John threatened war if the Venetians would not stop contrabanding with the Saracens against whom John was then battling fiercely on multiple fronts. In 971, Pietro had to consent to end the trade with the Moslems.
      In 976, Otto I, protector of Pietro IV, died. His successor, Otto II, was busy with revolts in Germany and so the Venetians opposed to Pietro found their opportunity to depose him then. They locked him in his ducal palace and set it on fire. However, the fire spread to the Limitrofe and to Saint Mark's. Shortly, a greater part of the city was burnt. The doge and his young son by Waldrada, Pietro, were killed and their bodies thrown in the slaughterhouse, but were after recovered and respectfully buried in the church of Sant'Ilario
    Person ID I6000000002188304262  Ancestors of Donald Ross
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2020 

    Father Pietro III Candiano, 21st doge of Venice,   b. Abt 900, Venice, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 959, Venice, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Mother dogaressa Arcielda ... 
    Family ID F6000000002188869394  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family dogaressa Giovanniccia ..., Giuliana 
    Divorced Between 961 and 962 
    Married 964 
    Children 
     1. Vitale Candiano, 24th doge of Venice,   b. Abt 940, Venice, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1017, Venice, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2021 
    Family ID F6000000003950070597  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart