vantage of theVenetians, who agreed tofurnifti (hips for the 
embarkation, provifions, and a fquadron of armed galleys. 
By means of the policy of the doge, the firft hoftilities of 
th.e armament were directed againft Zara, which had re¬ 
volted from the Venetians; and he himfelf took the crofs, 
and leaving his fon to govern at home in his (lead, joined 
the confederates in arms. Zara was taken and difmantled, 
and the expedition next proceeded to Conftantinople, on 
the pretext 'of aiding young Alexius Angel us to reltore 
his father, the emperor Ifaac, who had been dethroned 
by his own brother Alexius. Dandolo warmly promoted 
this meafure, for the fake of procuring to his country a 
large acceftion of commerce and dominion. The fleet ar¬ 
rived before Conftantinople in June, 1203, and the fiege 
of the city loon commenced. Of this tranfaclion it fuf- 
fices at prelent to mention the (hare taken by Dandolo. 
At the ftonning of the city, the aged doge, in complete 
armour, (landing on the prow of his galley, with the great 
ftandard of St. Mark displayed before him, commanded 
his men to row up the walls, and was the firft who leaped 
on-lhore. The walls and towers on that part were fpee- 
dily occupied by the Venetians, and the banner of the re¬ 
public fixed upon them, when Dandolo was called away 
to the alfiftance of the French, who were furrounded by 
luperior numbers. The Greeks were foon repulfed, and 
the ufurper fled, leaving his capital to the invaders. Af¬ 
ter various changes in tire imperial throne, fucceeded by 
a fecqnd fiege, in which Conftantinople was (formed and 
pillaged by the crufad'ers, the latter proceeded to the 
election of a Latin emperor, and Dandolo was firft no¬ 
minated ; but his great age, and the incompatible cha¬ 
racter of doge, caufed the nomination to he withdrawn, 
and Baldwin was the perfon chofen. The Venetians, in 
the (haring of the imperial dominions, obtained a full 
moiety, and Dandolo was folemnly invefted with the title 
of defpot of Romania. He ended his life foon after at 
Conftantinople, in 1205, having reached, if there is- no 
miftake in the records, the uncommon age of ninety-feven. 
DAN'DOLO (Andrew), doge of Venice, one of its 
early historians, born about 1310. He diftinguifhed him¬ 
felf by his knowledge of law, hiftory, and polite litera¬ 
ture ; and rofe firft to the office of procurator of St. Mark, 
and then to that of doge, in 1343. Under his aufptces 
the commerce of Venice received a great extenfion by a 
connection with Egypt, which, he formed by means of 
an embafly to the foldaiv;. and the firft Venetian (hip 
failed to Alexandria in 1345. The j.ealouf'y conceived 
by the Genoefe of this new trade was the occafion of a 
war between the' two republics, which continued with 
various l’uccefs for leveral years. It gave rife to a corre- 
fpondence between the doge and the celebrated Petrarch,, 
at this time a canon of Padua. The philofophical poet 
wrote a long and earned letter to Dandolo, exhorting him 
to peace. The doge replied, and his anfwer is printed 
among the epiftles of Petrarch. Though the latter re¬ 
newed his- perfuafions, eloquence and reafon were, as 
ufual, unable to compofe the animofities excited by am¬ 
bition and cupidity. A powerful fleet of Genoefe en¬ 
tered the gulf of'Venice,. ravaged Iftria, burnt the city 
of Parenzo, apd occafioned fuch an alarm in Venice it- 
felf, that the port was (hut up with chains. The doge 
put on armour, and exerted himfelf in providing for the 
lafety of the city, but his anxiety brought oil an illnefs, 
of which he died in September, 1334, leaving a high 
character for learning, eloquence, courtefy, and patriot¬ 
ism. To Andrew Dandolo is aferibed the compilation 
of the lixth book of Venetian Statutes; but he is mod 
diftinguifhed for his Chronicle of Venice, written in La¬ 
tin, and comprehending the hiftory of the republic from 
its commencement to 1342. This is accounted the firft 
work in which a regular narration is formed from the 
annals or chronicles of Venetian writers who lived at the 
time of the events they record ; and it is praifed, as well 
for the author’s impartiality, as for the authentic docu¬ 
ments which lis produces to fubftantiate his facts. It 
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was firft publifned by Muratori, in his collection of ori¬ 
ginal Italian writers of hiftory. 
DANE, a river of England, in the county of Chefter, 
which joins the Weever at Norwich. 
DA'NEAU, orDANZEUs (Lambert), alearned French 
proteftant minifter, born at Orleans about the year 1530.- 
He appears to have been originally deligned for the pro- 
feffion of the law, and purfued his (Indies in his native 
town, under the celebrated Anne du Bourg, counfellor- 
clerk to the parliament of Paris,, who died a martyr to 
the reformed religion in 15591 Daneau had embraced 
the fame religious fentiments with his-mafter, and after his 
death with drew from the feene of perfecutiontoGeneva. In 
that city he became a minifter, and profeflbr of theology ; 
which offices he afterwards fuftained with much reputa¬ 
tion at Leyden in Holland. From Leyden he went ta 
Ghent, whence, in 1582, when the Netherlands became- 
diftraCted by civil wars, he removed to Bearn. From 
thence he was invited, in 1594, to Caftres in Languedoc, 
at which place he died about two years after his fettle- 
ment there. He was a man of confiderable learning and 
abilities, and much efteemed in the Calviniftic churches,, 
whofe principles he defended againft the Lutherans, as 
well as Catholics. Among other works which he pub-, 
lifted, are, 1. Commentaries on the Gofpels of Matthew 
and Mark. 2. Loci Communes. 3. Harmonia,fivt Tabula in 
Salomonis Provcrbia & Ecclefiajten. 4. Geographic Poeiica 3 . 
Lib. IV. 5, VetuJUJJimarum Maudi Antiqiitatum, Lib. IV .„ 
6 . Elenchus Hereticorum. 7. Methcdus Sacra Scripture-, and, 
8. Aphorifmi Politici & Militares. 
DA'NEGELT,y. {_dane and gelt, money or tribute.} 
An annual tax laid on the Anglo-Saxons, firlt of one (hil¬ 
ling, afterwards of two (hillings, for every hide of land" 
through the realm, for maintaining fuch a number of 
forces as were thought fufficient to clear the Britifh feas- 
of Danifli pirates, which greatly annoyed our coafts. Da- 
negelt was firft impofed as a (landing yearly tax on the 
whole nation, under king Ethelred, A. D. 991. That 
prince, fays Cambden, Britan. 142. much diftrefled by 
the continual invafionsof the Danes, to procure a peace, 
was compelled to charge his people with heavy taxes, 
called danegelt. At firft he paid io,oool. then i6,oool„ 
then 24 ,oqo 1 . after that 36,000!. and laftly 48,0001. Ed¬ 
ward the Confeflor remitted this tax : William I. and II. 
reaffumed it occafionally. In the reign of Henry I. it was 
accounted among the king’s (landing revenues ; but king 
Stephen, on his coronation-day, abrogated it for ever.. 
No church or church-land paid a penny to the danegelt; 
becaufe,,as is fet forth in an ancient Saxon law, the peo¬ 
ple of England placed more confidence in the prayers of 
the church than in-any military defence they could make. 
DANES (Peter), a learned French prelate in the iix- 
teenth century, born at Paris in 1497. He was educated 
under the inftrubtions of William Bude and John Laf- 
caris, and other able tutors, and became fo eminent for 
his literary proficiency, that, in 1530, he was appointed 
. profeflbr of the Greek language in the college-royal, by 
Francis I. That chair he occupied about five years ; 
when he was nominated by Henry II. preceptor to the 
dauphin, afterwards Francis II. When the council of 
Trent was aflembled, he was one of the ambafladors fent 
to it from France; and in 1546 delivered an excellent 
fpeech, which was printed at Paris in the fame year, and 
in 1567 at Louvain, among the a£ts of the council. It 
was during the (efiion of that council that he was made 
bilhop of Lavaur, in 1557. He was the author of a va¬ 
riety of pieces that appeared without his name, feveral 
of which were collected, and publifhed at Paris in 1731, 
in quarto, by Peter Hilary Danes, defeended from the 
fame family, and a dobtor and profeflbr of theology in 
the college of the Sortonne. To that collection are pre¬ 
fixed a life of the bifhop of Lavaur, by the editor, and 
a diflertation intended to prove that the prelate was the 
compiler of the treatife De Ritibus Ecckjia Catholica, attri¬ 
buted by Du Pin, and other critics, to the prelident Du- 
ranti. 
