Vol. 3: A 1077 usque ad 1209

Patriarch Peregrine I of Aquileia confirms the foundation and possessions of the monastery of Saint Gall in Moggio, originally donated and endowed by Patriarch Ulrich I with properties bestowed by Count Kazelin, adding further privileges, tithes, and jurisdictional rights, and prohibiting their alienation or infringement under threat of anathema.

Pope Lucius II confirms to Henry Dandolo, the incumbent patriarch of Grado, the patriarchal dignity, properties, jurisdictions and metropolitan authority over the ecclesiastical province of the Church of Grado, along with the right to bear the cross and pallium on specific feast days.

The people of Koper and Izola swear an oath of fealty to the doge and the Commune of Venice, promising to arm one galley whenever Venice would embark on a military campaign with fifteen or more galleys, military aid for any Venetian military endeavor in the Adriatic, in the zone between Dubrovnik, Venice, and Ancona, guaranteeing the safety of all the Venetians in their city, and promising to observe the same ducal laws on grain trade as Venetians.

The people of the Commune of Pula swear fealty to Doge Pietro Polani and to the Commune of Venice, promising military aid in the form of arming one galley per every fifteen Venetian galleys during Venetian military campaigns, to support the Venetian military efforts in the Adriatic, in the zone between Dubrovnik, Venice, and Ancona, and to defend Venice if they see hostile ships approaching their city, exempting the Venetians from all the dues and tolls in their city except the harbor tax (portaticus), guaranteeing safety and judicial autonomy in disputes between Venetians and the citizens of Pula, gifting the doge and the Commune of Venice with a house by the city’s gates, and agreeing to swear the same promise of fealty to every new doge upon his consecration; the doge and the Commune of Venice agree to defend the Commune of Pula against their enemies and to treat the citizens of Pula as their own citizens in Venice.

On his return from the Holy Land and from the Second Crusade, King Conrad III sails through the Adriatic and stops in Pula, from where he continues the journey towards Germany by land, traveling through Aquileia to Salzburg before finally reaching Regensburg (narrative account from The Deeds of Emperor Frederick I by Otto of Freising).

Five Istrian communities – Pula, Rovinj, Poreč, Novigrad and Umag – pledge their fealty to the doge of Venice and his successors, promising military support, a variety of symbolic tributes to St. Mark, the patron saint of Venice, and to the doges, guaranteeing the safety of all the Venetians in their jurisdictions and abolishing all the dues for Venetian traders.

The people and the clergy of Pula agree to a final settlement with Venice whereby they fully acknowledge their fault for the military actions directed against them and renounce all their claims for further recompense and restitutions.

Pope Adrian IV grants to Henry Dandolo, the incumbent patriarch of Grado, primacy over the Archbishopric of Zadar and its suffragan bishoprics, with the right to consecrate the Archbishop of Zadar while reserving the granting of the pallium to the Roman Pontiff.

Pope Adrian IV confirms to Henry Dandolo, the incumbent patriarch of Grado, the patriarchal dignity, primacy over the Archbishopric of Zadar, properties, jurisdictions and metropolitan authority over the ecclesiastical province of the Church of Grado, along with the right to bear the cross and pallium on specific feast days.

Pope Adrian IV grants Patriarch Enrico Dandolo of Grado and his successors the authority to ordain bishops in Constantinople and other cities of the Byzantine Empire where Venetians have established churches.

Emperor Frederick I donates the Bishopric of Belluno, together with the county and all the regalian rights, to Patriarch Peregrine I and the Church of Aquileia.

Pope Alexander III confirms to Henry Dandolo, the incumbent patriarch of Grado, the patriarchal dignity, primacy over the Archbishopric of Zadar, properties, jurisdictions and metropolitan authority over the ecclesiastical province of the Church of Grado, along with the right to bear the cross and pallium on specific feast days.

Aquileian Patriarch Ulrich II of Treffen launches an attack on Venetian Grado as he tries to subjugate the competing patriarchal see; he fails miserably and ends up locked in a Venetian prison where he “buys” his freedom by signing a new treaty with Venice and agreeing to a yearly tribute of twelve loaves of bread and twelve pigs that his Church would perpetually bring to the ducal palace of Venice before the Fat Thursday festivities (narrative accounts from later Venetian chronicles).

Aquileian patriarch Ulrich II together with his parents, Count Wolverad II and Countess Emma II, donate Treffen and Tiffen with all their dependencies and all their properties around Lake Ossiach, Treffen Valley, Wollanig, Gratschach and St. Ulrich together with their dependencies to the Church of Aquileia.

Ulrich II, patriarch elect of Aquileia, exchanges properties with Abbot Ulrich and the St. Gall’s Monastery of Moggio, bestowing the estate that was previously held in fief from the Patriarchate of Aquileia by a certain Vetradis, wife of Eckbert, at San Canziano and from Fiumicello to the Karst, and receiving Oprtalj in Istria in return. Following the death of Vetradis, Ulrich II, patriarch elect of Aquileia, confirms the exchanged property to the monastery and establishes an anniversary for himself and his predecessors.

Ulrich, the former margrave of Tuscany, together with his wife Diemot donate the castle of Attimis with the appertaining village, the castle Partistagno, the villages Porzùs, Subìt, Prossenicco, Cergneu, Chialminis, Lucinico, Piedimonte, Orehovlje, Vipolže and Volče, their properties in Breginj and Logje, their allod in Nimis and their court in Ariis, together with their ministerials, to the Church of Aquileia and Patriarch Ulrich II; the ministerials pledge their oath of fealty to their new lord, the patriarch of Aquileia.

Pope Alexander III assumes the chapter of Aquileia and its canons under his protection and confirms all their possessions and jurisdictions.

Pope Alexander III confirms the spiritual and secular jurisdictions of the bishops of Poreč.

The consuls and the people of Pula write to the patriarch of Aquileia Ulrich II, informing him that they are aware of the emperor’s arrival (in the vicinity of Venice) and that the imperial assembly will be convened on May 22; therefore, they ask him to take up with the emperor their complaints against the Venetians, who treat them as their subjects.

Pope Alexander III confirms the metropolitan jurisdictions of the incumbent Aquileian patriarch, institutes a new suffragan bishopric in Koper, grants him the pallium, and corroborates all the possessions and titles of the Aquileian Church, including the "County, the March, the Duchy," the regalian rights and imperial privileges.

Emperor Frederick I confirms the rights and possessions of the Bishopric of Torcello.

Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa confirms the rights and jurisdictions of the Patriarchate of Aquileia and assumes this church under imperial protection, confirming all the previous donations issued to the patriarchs by his predecessors kings and empires, by the popes, and by other laymen.

The incumbent patriarchs of Grado and Aquileia, Enrico Dandolo and Ulrich of Treffen respectively, solemnly end the centuries-old conflict between the two churches regarding the metropolitan jurisdictions over the Istrian bishoprics: the patriarch of Grado renounces the metropolitan pretensions of his church, the treasury that Patriarch Poppo took from Grado, and the possessions in Marsano, Aquileia, Zèmole and Marano Lagunare, but receives the spiritual jurisdiction over the parishes Latisana and San Fior, together with the quarter of the tithes and the annual income of up to seventy pounds of Veronese coins.

Pope Alexander III confirms the compromise concluded between Enrico Dandolo, the patriarch of Grado, and Ulrich II of Treffen, the patriarch of Aquileia (doc. 1180_GA).

Pope Lucius III confirms to Henry Dandolo, the incumbent patriarch of Grado, the patriarchal dignity, primacy over the Archbishopric of Zadar, properties, jurisdictions and metropolitan authority over the ecclesiastical province of the Church of Grado, along with the right to bear the cross and pallium on specific feast days.