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Marco II Sanudo

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Marco II Sanudo (died 1303) was the third Duke of the Archipelago from 1262 to his death. Marco was the son and successor of Angelo and grandsome and namesake of Marco I.

Marco lost some of his islands to the Byzantine Empire early in his reign, but he recoverred them two decades later, in time to leave the whole of the original duchy to his son William I.

Sources

  • Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) A History of the Crusades: Volume II — The Later Crusades, 1189 – 1311. Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard, editors. University of Wisconsin Press: Milwaukee, 1969.
Preceded by Duke of the Archipelago
12621303
Succeeded by