Tiepolo doge family rises in Venice
1272
Lorenzo Tiepolo was elected doge of Venice after decades of maritime success against Genoa. The election marked a generational shift in the ruling families of the Republic and set the stage for a formal closing of the Great Council a generation later. The Serrata of 1297 would freeze Venetian aristocracy into a closed caste, transforming the Republic from a merchant democracy into an oligarchy of ancient lineages.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.