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Orso II Participazio (?-932) was the Doge of Venice
Doge of Venice

The Doge was the chief magistrate and leader of the Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy....
 from 912 to 932.

In 912 he was kidnapped in the Adriatic by a Serb prince of Zachlumia by the name of Mihailo Viševic
Mihailo Viševic

Mihailo Vi?evic was a medieval ruler of Zachlumia. He reigned from 910 till 930/940....
 while returning with the Doge's son from an official visit to Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
. Bulgaria was at war with Byzantium, the sovereign of Venice, so the coastal prince dispatched him to Emperor Simeon of Bulgaria
Simeon of Bulgaria

Simeon of Bulgaria may refer to:* Simeon I of Bulgaria, ruled over the First Bulgarian Empire 893–927* Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha or Simeon II of Bulgaria, de jure Tsar of Bulgaria 1943–1946, later elected Prime Minister of Bulgaria, served 2001–2005...
, hoping he would push off Petar Gojnikovic's domination in the area.

He was the eighteenth doge of the Republic of Venice
Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
, by tradition (historically, he was the sixteenth).






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Orso II Participazio (?-932) was the Doge of Venice
Doge of Venice

The Doge was the chief magistrate and leader of the Republic of Venice for over a thousand years. Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy....
 from 912 to 932.

In 912 he was kidnapped in the Adriatic by a Serb prince of Zachlumia by the name of Mihailo Viševic
Mihailo Viševic

Mihailo Vi?evic was a medieval ruler of Zachlumia. He reigned from 910 till 930/940....
 while returning with the Doge's son from an official visit to Constantinople
Constantinople

Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
. Bulgaria was at war with Byzantium, the sovereign of Venice, so the coastal prince dispatched him to Emperor Simeon of Bulgaria
Simeon of Bulgaria

Simeon of Bulgaria may refer to:* Simeon I of Bulgaria, ruled over the First Bulgarian Empire 893–927* Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha or Simeon II of Bulgaria, de jure Tsar of Bulgaria 1943–1946, later elected Prime Minister of Bulgaria, served 2001–2005...
, hoping he would push off Petar Gojnikovic's domination in the area.

He was the eighteenth doge of the Republic of Venice
Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
, by tradition (historically, he was the sixteenth). He was elected by the popular assembly. It seems that he was not related to the Participazio family that had already given many dogi to the city. (There was a prior Orso II Participazio who vied for Dogeship in about 887 but appears to have been entirely unrelated.) As soon as elected, he sent his son Pietro to Constantinople in order to re-establish the relationships with the emperor, which his predecessors had neglected; Pietro was named protospatario. The Adriatic was still plagued with Dalmatian, Saracen, and Narentine pirates, but the Doge took no action. He was proclaimed Baduario in Constantinople; his family took this title and modified it, over time, to Badoer (pronounced “Badočr”), which became a prominent name among successive generations of Veneziana nobility. Under his leadership, Venice acquired a mint. In 932, he withdrew to the monastery of Saint Felice in Ammiana, where he led a monastic life until his death. He was buried there. His portrait is placed in the church of the Madonna of the Garden.