Brothers Henry and Arnold of Grdoselo sell the village Medelin by Vižinada in the diocese of Poreč to Carstmann of Pazin and his brother for twenty marks of shillings. Count Albert I of Gorizia, assenting to this sale, invests the buyer with his new fief.
(SN) In nomine Christi amen.
Anno a nativitate Eius millesimo ducentesimo nonagesimo tercio, indicione sexta.
Actum in castro Pisini, die nono intrante mense novembri, presentibus dominis Conone de Sowignaco et Pertoldo de Gerdezella militibus, Brambanto de Wessenstein, Woshalco dicto Piçoleto vicecomite et Henrico habitatoribus Pisini et aliis quam pluribus convocatis testibus ad hec specialiter et rogatis.
Ibique coram illustrissimo domino Alberto comite Goricie Haynricus et Arnoldus fratres de Gerdezella confessi et contenti fuerunt vendidisse Carstemanno de Pisino, recipienti per se et fratribus et heredibus suis, villam nuncupatam Medelnum in Episcopatu Parentino iuxta confines ville de Rosario cum omnibus et singullis iuribus dominio atinenciis et pertinenciis ad eos spectantibus, sicut olim pater eorum dominus Henricus de Gerdezella emptionis titulo a Papone de castro Sancti Laurencii et ipsi hactenus possederunt, pretio enim viginti marcarum denariorum solidorum, quod confessi fuerunt integre recepisce, renuncians exceptioni non numerati et non soluti precii tempore huius contractus.
Quam villam cum domibus et areis, ortis, campis, pratis, territorio culto et inculto in montibus et valibus, silvis, nemoribus, aquis, venationibus, paysationibus, piscationibus et iuribus omnibus ac s[i]ngullisa eis pertinentibus renunciaverunt in manibus domini comitis supradicti, suplicando ipsi domino ut Carstmannum prefatum, recipientem pro se et fratribus suis et ipsius ac eorum heredibus, investiret de ipsa villa et omnibus ac singullis supradictis.
Qui vero dominus comes, considerans quod per dictum Carstmannum et fratres suos et heredes eorum peterunt sibi et suis heredibus grata servicia exiberi, de certa sciencia et pura voluntate eundem Carstmanum, recipientem pro se et fratribus et heredibus eorumdem, de dicta villa et omnibus ac singullis, ut superius expressum est, coram supradictis testibus et me notario ibidem investivit, pro quo vero feudo dictus Carstmannus fecit fidelitatem et homagium, prestito iuramento, ut vasalus debet domino et fieri consuevit.
In cuius eciam rei evidenciam pleniorem et maius robur dictus dominus comes instrumentum presens fecit sigilli sui cerei pendentis munimine roborari.
Ego Otolinus Iustinopolitanus imperiali auctoritate notarius interfui et rogatus scribere et mandato dicti domini comitis et asensu parcium scripsi, scripsi, scripsi et roboravi.
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The village Medelin by Vižinada, in the Diocese of Poreč, was originally confirmed as the secular possession of the bishops of Poreč by Emperor Otto II in 983 (doc. 983_OP). At this point, however, the village was already in the hands of the counts of Gorizia, and it was administered by their faithful ministerials, in this case the House of Grdoselo, another Gorizian stronghold in Istria.
The sale of what was conceptualized as a Gorizian possession (even though the count held it in fief from the bishops of Poreč) was enacted through a judicial ritual resignatio in favorem. Namely, the sellers received the money from the buyer, but the fief had to be first relinquished back to its lord, Count Albert I of Gorizia, with the petition that the buyers be invested with it. The lord of the fief acted accordingly, and Carstmann of Pazin was duly invested with the possession of his purchase.