Agnello Participazio [SEP] position held
Agnello Participazio
Agnello Participazio ("Angelo Particiaco", Latin: Agnellus Particiacus) was the tenth (traditional) or eighth (historical) Doge of Venice from 811 to 827.
History.
He was born to a rich merchant family in Heraclea and was one of the earliest settlers of the island of Rialto, which "civitas Rivoalti" became, under him, the "civitas Venetiarum".
In 810, the reigning doges, Obelerio, Beato, and Valentino, called in the king of Italy,
a Byzantine governor. Nevertheless, during the reign of the Participazio family, Venice grew into its modern form.
Though Heraclean by birth, Agnello, the first Participazio doge, was an early immigrant to Rialto and his dogeship was marked by the expansion of Venice towards the sea via the construction of bridges, canals, bulwarks, fortifications, and stone buildings. The modern Venice, at one with the sea, was being born. Agnello was succeeded by his son Giustiniano, who stole the remains of Saint Mark the Evangelist