Pietro II Candiano was the nineteenth Doge of Venice

Doge of Venice

The Doge of Venice , often mistranslated Duke was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. Commonly the person selected as Doge was the shrewdest elder in the city...

 between 932 and 939. He followed his father, Pietro I Candiano

Pietro I Candiano

Pietro I Candiano was briefly the sixteenth Doge of Venice in 887.He followed Orso I Participazio and Giovanni II Participazio as Doge of Venice, elected to the throne at the side of the elderly, and beloved, Giovanni circa April 887. He launched a military attempt against the Dalmatian Croat...

  (887), Pietro Tribuno

Pietro Tribuno

Pietro Tribuno was the Doge of Venice from 887 to his death. He was the son of Domenico Tribuno and Agnella, the niece of Pietro I Candiano, whom he succeeded as Doge following a brief period during which the elderly and infirm Giovanni II Participazio administered the city.Immediately after his...

 (888–912), and Orso II Participazio

Orso II Participazio

Orso II Participazio was the Doge of Venice from 912 to 932.In 912 he was kidnapped in the Adriatic by a Serb prince of Zachlumia by the name of Mihailo Višević while returning with the Doge's son from an official visit to Constantinople...

 (912–932) to become Doge of Venice in 932.

He began the Venetian policy of expansion on the mainland after 932. Candiano II began a bitter economic blockading war against Istria

March of Istria

The Margravate of Istria was originally a Carolingian frontier march covering the Istrian peninsula and surrounding territory conquered by Charlemagne's son Pepin of Italy in 789...

 early in his rule. He burnt Venice's neighbor and potential rival, Comacchio

Comacchio

Comacchio is a town and comune of Emilia Romagna, Italy, in the province of Ferrara, 48 km from the provincial capital Ferrara.-Geography:...

, to the ground following a trifling diplomatic incident. He married Arcielda Candiano

Arcielda Candiano

Arcielda Candiano was Dogaressa of Venice.She was possibly the child of a Venetian and a captive Slav woman, and became the wife of Doge Pietro III Candiano...

. He was succeeded as Doge by his son, Pietro III Candiano

Pietro III Candiano

Pietro III Candiano was the Doge of Venice from 942 until 959. In 948 he led a fleet of 33 Galleys to punish the Dalmatian pirates - Narentines - for repeatedly raiding across the Adriatic Sea...

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