Arcielda Candiano

Arcielda Candiano (fl. c. 927 - 959) was a Dogaressa of Venice by marriage to the Doge Pietro III Candiano (r. 942 - 959).[1] Her name is sometimes given as Richelda.[2]

Arcielda Candiano
Dogaressa of Venice
Reign	942 - 959
Predecessor	Angela Sanudo
Successor	Giovanniccia Candiano
Born	Venice,Republic of Venice
Died	Republic of Venice
Spouse	Pietro III Candiano
Issue	Pietro IV Candiano Domenigo Candiano Vitale Candiano Stefano Candiano

Life

She was possibly the child of a Venetian and one of the Narentine Slav women who were brought to Venice as captives after the campaign against the Narentian pirates in the Adriatic in 887, before she married Pietro III Candiano.[3] With the death of her husband in 959, Arcielda retired to become a nun as was by that time the custom for widowed dogaresses, though she inherited, through the terms of Pietro's will, a vineyard and other property in the marchese of Veneto, which she gave to the nuns of San Zaccaria.[2]

Her four sons were Pietro IV Candiano (930 - 976), Domenigo Candiano, Bishop of Torcello, Vitale Candiano, Doge of Venice (-979) and Stefano Candiano.[4]

References

1. Lane, Frederic Chapin (November 1973). Venice, A Maritime Republic. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-1460-0.
2. Molmenti, Pompeo (1887). La dogaressa di Venezia (in Italian). Roux e Favale.
3. Lando, Steve (2017-04-20). Eurasiens språkfamiljer III: En fordomlig historia (in Swedish). Steve Lando. ISBN 978-1-5447-5865-7.
4. West-Harling, Veronica (2020-08-20). Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750-1000: Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-106912-3.

Preceded by Unknown

Dogaressa of Venice 942–959

Giovanniccia Candiano