Orso I Participazio

Orso I. Partecipazio or Participazio († 881 ) was, according to tradition the 14th Doge of Venice. He reigned from 864 to 881

Family

The Partezipazio were among the most powerful and influential families of Venice tribunician. 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 Partecipazio ( 810-827 ), he was followed by his sons Giustiniano and Giovanni ( 829-836 ). After almost thirty years of government Tradonicos the Partecipazio returned with Orso I. on the Dogenthron back: He was succeeded by his son Giovanni. More Doges were Orso II ( 911-932 ) and his son Pietro ( 939-942 ) from a side branch of the family, the Badoer.

In addition, several bishops and patriarchs came from the families of Partecipazio and Badoer.

The Dogenamt

Orso Partecipazio was elected immediately after the murder of his predecessor Tradonico Doge, probably by acclamation.

Like its predecessor, also fought against Orso Slavic pirates and Saracens, which affect trade in the Adriatic Sea by their constant raids. After the Dogensohn Giovanni beat the Saracens at Grado successful, he was employed as a co- Doge.

One of the first of Venice's numerous conflicts with the Pope in Rome came when Orso wanted to order a castrato Bishop of Torcello. The competent Patriarch of Grado, Peter, refused episcopal ordination, saying the spell over the Doge, and was forced to flee under the protection of John VIII to Rome. To a subsequently convened by Pope Synod, the Venetian bishops were time and did not arrive until after the end in Rome. The fact is that the Doge continued into the 11th century, the candidates for bishop, abbot and abbess offices proposed and participated in the election as well as the secular exercised jurisdiction over the high clergy.

To meet the growing population of Venice to procure settlement area, let Orso wetlands around the Rialto dry place and promoted the settlement in Dorsoduro and Poveglia. As for the lucrative slave trade of the Venetians, the Doge was issued an edict to restrict this, but just as little success had obviously so as the Pope with a corresponding ban

From the Byzantine emperor Basil Orso received the honorary title of Protospatharios.

Orso was married to a niece of the emperor, and had with her five or six children. He died in 881 and was buried in the church of San Zaccaria.