Due to the fact that Buje borders the lands of lord Emperor in Istria and that there have been many incursions and raids by the emperor’s subjects, the Venetian Senate agrees to support the proposal of the citizens of Buje and their delegated podestà, greenlighting the plan to fortify the city within five years and pay for this enterprise with the income provided by Buje’s regalian rights.
Die XXI iulii.
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(+) Attento quod locus noster Bullearum est maxime importantie in partibus Istrie, quia confinat cum locis serenissimi imperatoris ibi propinquis, a quibus procedunt incursiones, rapine et violentie cum totali destructione subditorum nostrorum in illis partibus, et dubitent ipsi fideles nostri Bullearum propter importantiam ipsius loci ac debilitatem quia non est murus circundatus ne maiora damna suscipiant, imo ab eorum emulis et inimicis totaliter quadam die destruantur, consideratoque quod potestas noster ipsius loci nobis scribit et consulit satisfaciens esse supplicationi illius comunitatis Bullearum, ut dictus locus expleatur murari de pecuniis regaliarum ipsius loci spectantibus Dominio nostro, que possunt esse circa libras centum quinqueginta parvorum in anno et cetera,
vadit pars, quod auctoritate huius Consilii dictus locus noster perficiatur de muro de pecuniis predictis nostri Dominii regaliarum predictarum per annos quinque et non ultra, infra quem terminum, et quanto celerius fieri potest, adhibeatur omnis cura et solicitudo quod dictum laborerium fiat, et de pecuniis antedictis bonum computum teneatur.
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The Senate's decree testifies to intensified raiding in Istria between the subjects of Venice and the subjects of House Habsburg (Frederick III being the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire at the time). Namely, Buje bordered Momjan to the north, an Erbland of the Habsburgs that they inherited from Count Albert III of Gorizia in 1374.
Buje had been stripped of its walls and fortifications by the decree of the Council of Hundred back in 1412, shortly after the community signed its pacts of subjection to Venice (see them here) and then rebelled against their new overlords (see the document here).
This decree reverses the situation for Buje, improving its status back to "castrum" in the medieval sense of urbanity.
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