Giovanni II Participazio

Giovanni II Partecipazio or Participazio ( † about 887 ) was the 15th Doge of Venice. He reigned from 881 to 887

Giovanni II was according to the tradition of the 15th Doge of Venice. He was the son and co-regent of his predecessor Orso I. Partecipazio and followed him into the office without election. Giovanni adhered to the call of the nepotism and the neglect of the welfare state in favor of the benefits for their own families. He appointed several of his sons and his brothers as co-rulers, and followed here his father in politics, to anchor a dynastic rule of the Partecipazio family in Venice: a policy that failed due to premature death, or the inability of almost all potential successors.

To located the rule of the papal possession in to get situated in Ferrara Comacchio, he sent his brother Badoer for the purpose of negotiations with Pope Hadrian III. to Rome. Marino Count of Comacchio began Badoer, however, on its way from and sent him back to Venice. In revenge, the Doge was 883, the city devastated by Venetian troops. The Pope responded with excommunication of the Doge. As Giovanni at Hadrian's successor Stefan V. a new advance undertook to enter into possession of the city, he received a further dissipation. He was more successful with Emperor Charles III. , Of Mantua in Venice privileges confirmed on 11 May 883.

As Giovanni seriously ill, he appointed as deputy to his brother Piero, who, however, died before him. Brother Orso declined the office. Son Piero, an illiterate was, for lack of intelligence - as da Mosto suspects - incapacitation. On April 17 887, the Doge abdicated. From the People's Assembly Pietro I Candiano was elected as the 16th Doge, who, however, in September during a skirmish of the fleet was killed in front of Zara. Giovanni was then called back to Dogenamt, but was forced to abdicate due to health reasons finally a little later.

He probably died in the following year, his exact date of death and his grave is not known.