Jacopo Contarini

Jacopo Contarini (c. 1193–1280), the 47th doge of Venice, was born into the Contarini family. In 1265 he negotiated at Constantinople with Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos a truce Venice never ratified. Elected doge in September 1275, he was already in his eighties.

He let the councils rule through famine, plague and the wars with Ancona and Capodistria; a truce with Byzantium followed in 1278. He abdicated in March 1280, retired to a monastery and died in April, leaving sons by his wife Jacobina.