Carola, wife of Obelerio degli Antenori

Carola (fl. 811) is the name used by Edgecumbe Staley in his book The dogaressas of Venice to refer to the Dogaressa of Venice married to Doge Obelerio degli Antenori (r. 804-811). Among many claims, she is sometimes purported to be the first consort of a Venetian doge with the title and position of dogaressa of Venice, although this is a claim that only appears for the first time in 1858, over 1,000 years after her supposed reign.[1] The first mention of a consort of Obelerio in the surviving historical record is in the Chronicon Altinate,[2] said to be an unnamed daughter of Charlemagne, and several other early accounts fail to mention any wife or consort of Obelerio. [3] [4] Despite the lack of contemporary evidence, the consort figure in the Chronicon Altinate became part of the canon of Venetian history, and thus is found in many accounts of Obelerio's reign.

  1. ^ Hazlitt, William Carew (1915). The Venetian Republic : its rise, its growth, and its fall, A.D. 409-1797. Snell Library Northeastern University. London : Adam and Charles Black.
  2. ^ Hrsg., Cessi, Roberto (1933). Origo civitatum Italie seu venetiarum. Tipogr. del Senato. p. 99. OCLC 615203055.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Diacono, Giovanni (1999). Berto, Luigi Andrea (ed.). Istoria Veneticorum (in Latin and Italian). Bologna: Zanichelli Editore. p. 112.
  4. ^ Scholz, Bernhard (1970). Carolingian Chronicles. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.7546. ISBN 978-0-472-06186-0.