1. dan`dolo a Venetianfamily that furnished four Doges to the Republic, Enricobeing the most illustrious; chosenDoge in his eighty-fourth year, assisted the Crusaders of the FourthCrusade with ships; joined them, when blind and aged 90, in layingsiege to Constantinople; led the attack by sea, and was the first to leap ashore; was offered the imperial crown, but declined it; died instead "despot" of Roumania in 1205, at 97.
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