History Walks in Venice
René Seindal
History Walks Venice is run by René Seindal. René is Danish by birth, but lives in Venice for fifteen years with Martina, his Venetian wife, and their two dogs Stella and Giubba. René has an M.A. in History and Italian, and a B.Sc. in computer science and math, both from the University of Copenhagen. He is also an authorized tour leader (accompagnatore turistico) in Italy.
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The Pactum Lotharii was a treaty between the Duchy of the Venetians and the Holy Roman Empire, or parts thereof, from 840.
Ursus Hypatos was the third doge of Venice, likely the first chosen locally, but we have almost no sources for him.
The earliest written source related to the inhabitants of the Venetian lagoons, is a letter from Cassiodorus, written in 537.
In the 730s or early 740s, Hildeprand, nephew of king Liutprand, and Peredeo, duke of Vicenza, managed to take Ravenna, the capital of the Exarchate of Ravenna.
The events around the demise of the Exarchate of Ravenna only involved the Venetians marginally. It is nevertheless important to the history of Venice.
Venetia existed within the Exarchate of Ravenna, as part of the Byzantine Empire, and what happened in the Exarchate mattered to Venetia.
An excerpt of the "Liber Pontificalis" for Pope Zachary about Lombard attacks on Ravenna around 742.
The eventful reign of John VI, bishop of Ravenna (726–744), from the "Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis".
An excerpt of the "Liber Pontificalis" for Gregory II about iconoclasm in Byzantine Italy in 726.
An account of the anti-iconoclast rebellion of 726–727 in Byzantine Italy, from the "Historia Langobardorum" by Paul the Deacon.
The second doge of Venice, Marcellus, might not have been a Venetian duke, but a Byzantine official.
Venice started as a Byzantine duchy, ruled by a "dux", but at some point, they started chosing their own dux — or doge. When, or even who, is not clear.
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