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'Orso Ipato' (Latin ''Ursus'') was the third traditional Doge of Venice (726–742) and the first historically known. Sometime in the early 8th century, he was elected to lead the Venetians and granted the title of ''dux'' or duke, which has morphed in the Venetian dialect into ''doge''.
Orso himself came from Heraclea. He was eventually recognised by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian, who gave him the title ''hypatos'', or ''consul''. His descendants surnamed themselves Ipato on the basis of this imperial honorific. The Orseolo family was also descended from him. After Orso's violent death (assassinated perhaps at the instigation of Eutychius, Exarch of Ravenna), there was a brief interregnum before his son, Teodato, was elected as the second historical doge of Venice.
★ Norwich, John Julius. ''A History of Venice''. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1982.
Orso himself came from Heraclea. He was eventually recognised by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III the Isaurian, who gave him the title ''hypatos'', or ''consul''. His descendants surnamed themselves Ipato on the basis of this imperial honorific. The Orseolo family was also descended from him. After Orso's violent death (assassinated perhaps at the instigation of Eutychius, Exarch of Ravenna), there was a brief interregnum before his son, Teodato, was elected as the second historical doge of Venice.
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★ Norwich, John Julius. ''A History of Venice''. Alfred A. Knopf: New York, 1982.
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