page_title: List of Doges of Venice
section_title: 10th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of Doges of Venice / 10th century
context_page_description: The following is a list of all 120 of the Doges of Venice ordered by the dates of their reigns which are put in parentheses.
  For more than 1,000 years, the chief magistrate and leader of the city of Venice and later of the Most Serene Republic of Venice was styled the Doge, a rare but not unique Italian title derived from the Latin Dux. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. The Venetian combination of elaborate monarchic pomp and a republican constitution with intricate checks and balances makes "La serenissima" a textbook example of a crowned republic.
  Despite the great power given to them, the Venetian Doges were restricted by law to spend the rest of their lives inside the Doge's Palace complex and St Mark's Basilica, occasionally leaving for diplomatic reasons.
context_section_description: Orso II Participazio (912–932)
  Pietro II Candiano (932–939)
  Pietro Participazio (939–942)
  Pietro III Candiano (942–959)
  Pietro IV Candiano (959–976) people of Venice locked him in palace with son while it burned
  Pietro I Orseolo (976–978) resigned to become a Camaldolese hermit in the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa in the Pyrenees
  Vitale Candiano (978–979) abdicated, for health reasons
  Tribuno Memmo (979–991)
  Pietro II Orseolo (991–1009)
caption: Orso II Participazio
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