He was from Heraclea, formerly magister militum of Doge Paoluccio Anafesto (697-717) when he signed the peace treaty with the Lombard king Liutprand in the year 714.
Like Paoluccio, or Paulus Lucius Anaphestus, before him, the dogate of Marcellus Tegallianus is not historically established.
Who the first two doges really were is still not entirely clear, there is an aura of mystery and poverty of data that prevents us from identifying them with any certainty: some have suggested that the first doge was the exarch of Ravenna himself, appointed by the emperor of the
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