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Dan`dolo

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A Venetian family that furnished four Doges to the Republic,

he most illustrious; chosen Doge in his eighty-fourth year, assisted the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade with ships; joined them, when blind and aged 90, in laying siege to Constantinople; led the attack by sea, and was the first to leap ashore; was offered the imperial crown, but declined it; died instead "despot" of Roumania in 1205, at 97.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Dan`dolo'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/dandolo.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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