Doge Bartolomeo Selvo "the Builder" (1049-) was the Doge of Venice from 1136 until his death.
Biography[]
A member of the House of Selvo and the son of Domenico and Helena Selvo, Bartolomeo wanted for nothing. He was spoiled with his parents' money, and was a political animal. Although he had a dark side to his personality, he was a superb administrator and a good commander in the field, and he was the man who captured Zagreb from Benedek of Zagreb's rebels in 1080. He gained military experience in the campaigns of his father, and commanded the forces back home while his father was in the Holy Lands.
In 1122 he led a campaign against the Moors in southern Spain as a part of a crusade against them, conquering both Cordoba and Granada from the Moorish sultan Miswar I, and sending assassins to kill him with a snake. Selvo exterminated the populaces of both cities but redeemed his justifications of conquest by building new establishments, and became known as "The Builder". He had high piety and was a good commander.
Upon his father's death in 1136, Bartolomeo became the new Doge.