Bertholdus V, de domo Andechs, patriarcha Aquileiensis et marchio Istriae (1218-1251)

Berthold V of Andechs, patriarch of Aquileia, promises to the envoys of Doge Pietro Ziani and the Commune of Venice the security of Venetians within the boundaries of his temporal dominion; assures the recompense in case a Venetian ends up being robbed within his territories; promises to inform the Venetians in case of hostilities planned against them by the Empire; and he commits himself to amend the agreement, if necessary, in accordance with the Venetian doge.

Berthold V of Andechs, patriarch of Aquileia, and Count Maynard II of Gorizia, his advocate, promise to Doge Pietro Ziani and to the Commune of Venice the safety of Venetians living and operating within the confines of the temporal dominion of the Aquileian Church; promise to reimburse any Venetian if they end up robbed in the Patriarchate; to inform the Venetians if they find out that the Empire is planning any hostilities against them; and define the competences of the vicedominus of Aquileia; Venetians are promised exemptions from customs duties throughout the secular dominion of the Aquileian patriarchs and privileged judicial status.

In the name of Berthold V, the patriarch of Aquileia, John of Portis swears to uphold the peace and the treaties signed between the Aquileian patriarchs and the Commune of Venice.

Answering the pleas of Aquileian Patriarch Berthold, Emperor Frederick II proclaims and ratifies the verdict of the imperial princes gathered at the Diet of Ravenna, confirming the secular rights and prerogatives of Aquileian patriarchs and forbidding the election of rectors and the exercise of regalian rights to the subjected urban communities, especially to the Istrian cities of Koper, Poreč, and Pula.

Answering the pleas of Aquileian Patriarch Berthold V, Emperor Frederick II decrees that throughout Friuli and Istria criminal justice administration and everything else pertaining to corporal punishments and coercion (merum et mixtum imperium) resides exclusively with the patriarch of Aquileia, threatening to deprive of their fiefs anyone who would dare to administer criminal justice on patriarchal territories.

Emperor Frederick II confirms the treaty signed between Aquileian Patriarch Berthold V and the Commune of Koper.

Count Maynard III of Gorizia promulgates an arbitrational sentence in a dispute between Aquileian Patriarch Berthold V and the Commune of Koper regarding the elections of podestàs, the prerogatives of the appointed gastalds and the administration of criminal justice, fines above a hundred bezants and the patriarch’s right to emend the local statute.

The envoys of the Aquileian Patriarch Berthold negotiate a new peace treaty with Venice, ending all the conflicts regarding trade, traffic, salt production, dues and the restitution of movable and immovable properties, confirming and reinstating the old pacts signed between the two dominions.