Acta Veneta

Venice, represented by Doge Orso I Participazio, and the Patriarchate of Aquileia, represented by Patriarch Walpert, sign a treaty according to which the Venetian Doge agrees not to block the Aquileian port Pylum, but only under the condition that the patriarch stops with all the hostilities directed against the Church of Grado and exempts the Venetians from all the tolls on his territories, according to the old customs.

Venetian Doge Enrico Dandolo accepts the demands of Aquileian Patriarch Peregrine II and agrees to offer help – mainly political and diplomatic, but also, if need be, military – against the Commune of Treviso, but asks for a number of concessions in return, all of which are granted by the patriarch with the sole exception of military aid.

In the name of Patriarch Wolfger of Aquileia, Henry of Gemona swears to Marco Barozzi, the envoy of Venetian Doge Pietro Zani, to uphold the treaties concluded between the Patriarchate and Venice, namely to ensure the safety of Venetian merchants throughout the patriarch’s secular dominion, to guarantee the reimbursement to any Venetian robbed within these territories, and to promptly announce to the Venetians if the Empire is planning any hostilities directed against them.

With the help of Fulcher, the bishop of Concordia, a peace treaty is reached, signed between Venice on the one side and the Patriarchate of Aquileia, the count of Gorizia, and the Commune of Trieste on the other, ending the war that had begun in 1283.

Doge Antonio Venier asks Margrave Domnius of Castello to compensate the mussolati (traders) from Završje who were robbed of their wine in the district of Venetian Koper by his subjects from Petrapilosa. He also asks Domnius to exemplarily punish his subjects who committed this robbery.

Doge Antonio Venier advises Domnius of Castello to remain loyal to the Happy Union and supports its goals with all the means at his disposal.

Doge Antonio Venier asks Domnius of Castello to restitute to German merchants the goods they were robbed of in Friuli and to provide them safe passage to Venice.

Doge Antonio Venier asks Domnius of Castello to restitute to friar Wilhelm, the procurator of St. Anthony’s monastery in Venice, the goods that were stolen from him in Friuli and to exemplarily punish his subjects who committed this robbery.

Doge Antonio Venier asks Domnius of Castello to lend his full support to the project of Domenico Bon who would like to acquire the possession of a “certain place” (= Rašpor).

The Venetian Senate agrees to the plea presented by the envoys of Rovinj who asked that the body of Saint Euphemia, the patron saint of the town, be returned to their community since it had been stolen from them by the Genoese during the War of Chioggia and subsequently transferred to Venice.

The Council of Hundred responds to the articles of the pact of subjection issued by the Commune of Buje, accepting the community into the Venetian Dominion.

The Council of Hundred writes to the incumbent captain and podestà of Koper regarding the news that the people of Buje rebelled against Venice, greenlighting the proposal to destroy the walls of Buje and informing him and the captain of Rašpor that they should continue with their original plan (i.e., destroy the walls), but keep intact the houses and possessions of the citizens and dwellers of Buje.

The Venetian Senate debates the future of the newly conquered strongholds in Istria: Oprtalj, Petrapilosa and Buzet. First, the Venetian Senate decided to postpone deliberating on the fate of these three Istrian forts to another date and after lunch (P. 1); then, three days later, it votes on three proposals (P. 2–4), ultimately decreeing to accept the three communities into their dominion and keep their walls intact, authorizing the delegated rectors of Koper to appoint the citizens of Koper to serve as governors of these three places.

Doge Tommaso Mocenigo issues a ducal letter to all the Venetian officials in Istria and to Buzet, officially welcoming the community to Venetian dominion and promising to its citizens the respect of their old laws and custom that they had practiced before being subjected to Venice.

The Venetian Senate deliberates on the matter of the four recently annexed communinites in Istria and their unhappiness with the current regimen; the first proposal (P. 1), to modify the existing jurisdictional framework is rejected; the second proposal (P. 2) is accepted, changing absolutely nothing, but only advising the rectors of Koper to delegate literate and suitable persons to these posts.

The Venetian Senate heeds the pleas of Buje, allowing the community to elect their own rectors from among the members of the Venetian Great Council.

The Venetian Senate revokes the privilege accorded to Labin by which the community was allowed to elect their own podestàs from among the Venetian noblemen; henceforth their rectors will be elected by the Venetian Great Council.

The Great Council of Venice decrees that all the disputes between close family members must be settled by way of third-party mediation and compromise.

The Venetian Great Council creates a number of new administrative posts aimed to be filled by the poorer nobility, among them the podestà of Buzet.

The Venetian Great Council creates a number of new administrative posts that are henceforth to be filled by the Venetian noblemen, among them the rector of Medulin, the podestà of Oprtalj, and the podestà of Dvigrad.

The Council of Ten confirms the old privilege of the Commune of Koper and the original pact with Dvigrad by which the nobles of Koper elect among themselves the regularly rotating podestà of Dvigrad.

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.

The Venetian Senate commissions the drawing of detailed maps of all their subject territories, highlighting their boundaries with adjacent dominions and lordships.