DANDOLO, ENRICO, a celebrated doge of Venice, elected to that office in 1192, in his old age; yet in 1201, though nearly blind, Dandolo joined in the crusade undertaken to restore Alexius to the imperial throne. With his own hands the aged hero planted the standard of St Mark on the ramparts in the first assault of Constantinople in 1203; and was present at the storming of the city in the following year. He had the glory of refusing the imperial crown, which was offered to him by the Latins, although he afterwards accepted the sovereignty of Roumelia. He died at Constantinople in 1205, and was buried in the church of St Sophia.