Giovanni Galbaio

Giovanni Galbaio (date of birth unknown; died probably 803 or 804) was, according to tradition the eighth Doge of Venice. He reigned from 787 to 803

Giovanni Galbaio was not chosen because he was a co- doge in office even during his father's reign, that is, he inherited the Dogenamt. These are the fantastic brands five places Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia - Giovanni's ambition is to be the rival of Venice for supremacy in the Veneto to retaliate against the Patriarch of Grado, who 785 the expulsion of the Venetian merchants from Pentapolis was Ancona - had operated, whereby Venice trade in the Adriatic came almost to a standstill.

Another difficult foreign policy problem was the aggressive policy of conquest of the Franks under Charlemagne, who had already conquered Istria and were preparing to bring all the Veneto region under their influence. From Byzantium no help was to be expected, since the engagement of Charles' daughter Rotrud had been arranged with the Byzantine prince Constantine just between the Franks and Byzantium.

However, the desired alliance between Charles and Byzantium not developed in terms of the two parties. The tensions came to a head when Karl was not invited to the Empress Irene 787 convened the Council of Nicaea and Karl response 794 private council convened in Frankfurt, which dealt with the same problems without Byzantine participation. Giovanni took the tensions between the parties for its own purposes, accomplishing that Irene the Dogensohn Maurizio as co- regent confirmed.

At the Patriarch of Grado, the two co- Dogen blew their revenge, with the Dogensohn should have distinguished by particular brutality: according to tradition, he is said to have the Patriarch Giovanni degli Antinori thrown down and beheaded by a spire. The blood of the patriarchs, which lay everywhere on the tower and the ground should not be removed to commemorate the brutality Maurizio.

The murdered patriarch should be a relative, follow Fortunatus of Trieste, which, however, preferred to flee and to place themselves under the protection of the Frankish king Charlemagne ..

In one of the Popolanen Malamoccos, which was dominated by the franken -friendly Party instigated rebellion of the Doge and his son were deposed and forced to flee. While their fate of the two Doges nothing is known.