Giustiniano Participazio

Giustiniano Partecipazio or Participazio, († 829 ) was, according to tradition the 11th Doge of Venice. He reigned from 827 until 829 the beginning of the Dogate the Partizipazio to Venice's trade relations extended to the eastern Mediterranean to Greece, Sicily and Egypt. The remains of St. Mark were transferred to Venice and the Doge decided to build a palace chapel for holding the relics.

Family

The Partecipazio among the tribunician families of Venice. These families were wealthy landowners, holders of high political or military posts in Venetia, which was part of the Eastern Roman Empire until the beginning of the 9th century and who had managed to make the Byzantine office of tribune hereditary.

Together with the Candiano and the Orseolo it was the family Partecipazio, the most Doge of Venice, presented by 810 until the constitutional reform of 1172. The first Doge of Venice was independent of Byzantium Angelo Participazio ( 810-827 ), he was followed by his sons Giustiniano and Giovanni ( 829-836 ), which was 836 arrested and deposed and ended his life in a monastery. After almost thirty years of government by Pietro Tradonico the Partecipazio returned to the Dogenthron back: 864-881 Orso I., and finally his son Giovanni from 881 to 887 were more Doge Orso II ( 911-932 ) and his son Pietro ( 939 -942 ) from a side branch of the family, the Badoer.

Life

Giustiniano one hand was a very wealthy merchant who operates a fleet of trading galleys entertained (see Economic history of the Republic of Venice). On the other hand, he had, as the feudal lords of the mainland, extensive goods on which bred cattle, grain grown and garden business was operated. Besides, numerous servants and maids were him, according to his will, are available, probably hearing.

Giustiniano was already advanced in age when he succeeded his father Angelo in Dogenamt after he had officiated as co- regent. Under the government Angelos were established by the Treaty of Aachen between Byzantium and the Frankish Empire the borders of Venice and adjacent areas have been determined to be privileged markets for its trade. Pro forma Venice remained from Byzantium dependent but no longer belonged to the Exarchate of Ravenna, which had already conquered the Lombards 751, and after becoming the Frankish Empire. Nevertheless, the process of detachment from the Byzantine rule was de facto strengthened with the Treaty. Under Angelo was the Dogensitz 811 of Malamocco by Rivo Alto ( the island of Rialto ), the nucleus of the future town of Venice, has been postponed and confirmed by Giustiniano after he took office. From a native of that time Dogenkastell at the site of today's Doge's Palace, however, no traces remain. For the first time in its history, Venice was asked for military aid during the campaign, from Byzantium in a company against the Saracens in Sicily, sign of the growing military strength of the city. The company's success strengthened Venice's prestige as a local power.

On 31 January 828, the extraordinarily momentous arrival of the remains of St. Mark's in Venice occurred. According to tradition, had two Venetian merchants or tribunes, Buono di Rustico di Torcello Malamocco and, possibly stolen on the initiative of the Doge, and the bones in Alexandria, Egypt, hidden under salt pork and kidnapped by boat to Venice. The Doge decided to build a proper resting place for the evangelists, so that the relics were venerated there. The alleged vision of the Evangelist, who was greeted with a trip to Venice by an angel with the saying Pax tibi, Marce, Evangelista meus, and he had prophesied that he would be once buried here, and especially revered, had been with the fulfilled arrival of the remains at their final resting place.

From this time, Venice 's Republic of Saint Mark was called. Markus dissolved the Holy Theodore as the patron saint from, and emblem of the Republic became the symbol of the evangelist, the lion with an open book and the saying of St. Mark's vision. At the same time Giustiniano had the fight with the Patriarch of Grado to the temporal and spiritual supremacy with the apostle 's grave in his Dogenkapelle - the Basilica di San Marco - enforced, symbolic of the setting of the Republic to the spiritual, especially papal Vorherrschaftsbestrebungen and church interference in its affairs. The same was true for the patriarch of Aquileia, because at that time the supremacy of the bishop of Rome was not enforced.