Era
Vol. 4: A 1209 usque ad 1300
Date
January 5, 1259
Regestum

The Commune of Poreč constitutes a Tergestus de Raphaele as its procurator, tasked with petitioning the right to elect the podestà of Poreč for the following year from Patriarch-Margrave Gregory of Montelongo and, in case the petition is granted, to elect whomever he wishes for the next podestà of Poreč.

Source
The original is lost; the text survives in the following manuscript tradition:
C = Venice, Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Miscellanea atti diplomatici e privati, busta 5, doc. 168; an insert in the charter issued in Cividale on January 14, 1259, which survives as a copy certified by Philip, the son of late Leon de Fara of Milan, during the reign of Patriarch Bertrand of Saint Genièsa (1334–1350); for the attestation of the certified copy and the edition of the charter issued in Cividale on January 14, 1259, see doc. 1259_EPP.
Previous Editions
Josip Banić, “Mletački podestati, plemenite čarobnice i motovunska komuna: Kritike, ispravci i dopune knjizi Proces protiv Dilette [Motovun, 1271.] u prožimanju rimskog, kanonskog, običajnog i mletačkog prava Dunje i Ivana Milotića (Pazin – Motovun: Državni arhiv u Pazinu – Općina Motovun, 2022.),” Histria 12 (2022): doc. 3/I, pp. 63–64.
FIM Edition
Diplomatic edition based on C.
Transcription

In nomine Domini.

Anno Eiusdem millesimo ducentesimo quinquagesimo nono, indictione secunda.

Actum Parentii in Maiori Consilio per campanam et preconem more solito congregato, die quinto intrante ianuario, presentibus Henrico Artizioni, Tulimerio Cesarii, Artuico notario et aliis.

Dominus Zaninus Marci potestas Parentii unacum Maiori Consilio nomine Comunis Parentii et pro ipso Comuni fecerunt et constituerunt dominum Tergestum de Raphaele eorum concivem, eorum nuntium, sindicum et procuratorem ad petendum gratiam a domino nostro Gregorio patriarcha Aquilegensi Dei gratia et marchione Istrie et Carniole de habenda potestate in Parentio per istum annum presentem futurum, videlicet ab undecima die proximi marcii ad unum annum completum, et si idem dominus patriarcha consentiet potestatem habere, quod idem Tergestus procurator et nuntius valeat et possit elligere et nominare coram domino patriarcha Aquilegensi quemcumque voluerit per potestatem in Parentio per supradictum annum nominatum, et ab ipso domino nostro patriarcha confirmationem accipere de ipsa potestaria, si sibi placuerit confirmare, promittentes nomine Comunis firmum habere in omnibus quidquid idem procurator in omnibus supradictis fecerit et non contravenire aliqua ratione seu occasione.

Ego Lazarius Iustinopolitanus et incliti domini marchionis notarius scripsi et roboravi.

Medieval Recollections

The approval granted by Patriarch Gregory of Montelongo and the election of Zaninus de Marco of Koper as the podestà of Poreč, done on January 14, 1259, in Cividale – edited here as doc. 1259_EPP.

Selected Bibliography
Josip Banić, “Mletački podestati, plemenite čarobnice i motovunska komuna: Kritike, ispravci i dopune knjizi Proces protiv Dilette [Motovun, 1271.] u prožimanju rimskog, kanonskog, običajnog i mletačkog prava Dunje i Ivana Milotića (Pazin – Motovun: Državni arhiv u Pazinu – Općina Motovun, 2022.),” Histria 12 (2022): pp. 36–39.
Editor's Notes

See the "Editor's Notes" in doc. 1256_EPI.

How to Cite
First citation: Josip Banić (ed.), Fontes Istrie medievalis, vol. 4: A 1209 usque ad 1300, doc. 1259_PP, fontesistrie.eu/1259_PP (last access: date).
Subsequent citations: FIM, 4: doc. 1259_PP.
Facsimile

See the facsimile in doc. 1259_EPP.