Marco Bembo was a Venetian diplomat and colonial official in the 1260s and 1270s.
Along with Pietro Zeno, he negotiated the ten-year peace treaty with the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, signed at Constantinople on 4 April 1268.[1][2] In 1269–1270 he served as one of the castellans of Coron, during which time he dealt with the murder of a Venetian archdeacon by a Byzantine sebastokrator (possibly the half-brother of the Emperor, Constantine), who had been captured on a ship off the Morea.[3][4] In 1270–1271 he was Bailo of Constantinople, and in 1273–1274 Bailo of Negroponte.[1] In 1275 he was sent on an embassy to Genoa with Giovanni Corner,[1] and in the next year, he was sent to negotiate a new treaty with the Byzantine Emperor, along with Matteo Gradenigo. Gradenigo died during the long negotiations, and the two-year agreement was finally concluded by Bembo alone on 19 March 1277.[1][5]
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- ^ a b c d Morgan 1976, p. 418.
- ^ Nicol 1988, pp. 190–191.
- ^ Morgan 1976, pp. 418, 419.
- ^ Nicol 1988, p. 203.
- ^ Nicol 1988, pp. 197–198.
Sources edit
- Morgan, Gareth (1976). "The Venetian Claims Commission of 1278". Byzantinische Zeitschrift. 69 (2): 411–438. doi:10.1515/byzs.1976.69.2.411. S2CID 159571822.
- Nicol, Donald M. (1988). Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34157-4.