Ecclesia Polensis

507_CV

Regestum

King Theodoric orders Anthony, the bishop of Pula, to restitute the rustic possession violently occupied by the bishop's officials to a certain Stephan.

Date
Between 507 and 511 according to Mommsen; between 518 and 526 according to Kandler

547_MD

Regestum

Maximian, the bishop of Ravenna, endows the monastery of St. Andrew and the church of St. Mary in Pula.

Date
During the episcopate of Maximian, the bishop of Ravenna (4th of October 546-22nd of February 556/7); traditionally, but wrongly, dated to 21st of February 547.
Place

560_VF1

Regestum

A poem composed by Venantius Fortunatus to a Vitalis, a bishop of Ravenna, traditionally identified as Maximian of Ravenna, but also as bishop Vitalis of Milan, bishop Vitalis of Altino, or even an eponymous, otherwise undocumented bishop of Pula.

Date
C. 560
Place

560_VF2

Regestum

Venantius Fortunatus composes a poem in celebration of the construction of the church of St. Andrew, built by a Vitalis, the bishop of Ravenna (most probably a laudatory nickname for Bishop Maximian).

Date
Circa 560
Place

579_SG

Regestum

The acts of the synod of Grado, heavily interpolated by later falsifications, by which the bishops of the ecclesiastical province of Aquileia remain faithful to the Catholic creed as decreed by the Ecumenical Councils of Chalcedon (451), Ephesus (431), Constantinople I (381) and Nicaea (325), refusing to denounce the Three Chapters condemned by the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople (552).

Date
November 3, 579 (purportedly) or sometime between 572 and 577 (more probably)
Place

725_GP

Regestum

Pope Gregory II writes to the bishops and populace of Venice and Istria, notifying them that Peter, the former bishop of Pula who usurped the Patriarchate of Grado following the death of Patriarch Donato, has been removed and returned to his See in Pula and that the bishops ought to elect a new head of the church of Grado.

Date
March 1, 725
Place

806_PLK

Regestum

Pope Leo III writes to Emperor Charlemagne regarding the situation of Fortunatus, the patriarch of Grado who had been exiled from his see by the Venetians and "the Greeks". The pope agrees that the Church of Pula should be bestowed upon Patriarch Fortunatus as his new seat.

Date
Between 806 and 810.

827_SM

Regestum

The decrees of the Synod of Mantua: the long conflict between the patriarchs of Grado and Aquileia over the metropolitan jurisdiction over Istrian bishoprics is settled in favor of the Aquileian Church.

Date
6th of June, 827
Place

910_PS

Regestum

Pope Sergius III writes to John, the bishop of Pula, informing him of Archbishop of Ravenna John XI's complaints against Count Albuin, who unlawfully alienated the possessions of the Church of Ravenna in Istria, and asking him to personally convey to the Count that he must return these possessions under the threat of excommunication and that King Berengar I will not be crowned emperor until he grants Albuin’s March (of Istria or of Friuli) to someone better.

Date
Between 905 and 911, usually dated to 910.
Place

910_AI

Regestum

Archbishop John XI of Ravenna writes to Bishop John of Pula regarding the pope's admonition of Count Albuin who had alienated some goods of the Ravennite Church in Istria.

Date
c. 910 (after doc. 910_PS)
Place

933_PW

Regestum

Following a dispute between the Venetians and Istrians, one that resulted in the embargo on all trading between Istria and Venice, Margrave Winther, together with the people and the bishops of Istria, promise to cease all hostilities towards the Venetians, not to usurp or occupy the properties of the Patriarchate of Grado or Venetian bishoprics in the region, to regularly take cognizance of and adjudicate the complaints lodged by the Venetians against defaulting debtors from Istria, to abolish all the newly instituted duties and only charge the customary fees of a docking tax and a market fee, and to promptly inform the Venetians in case the king of Italy plans any offensive against them so that they could safely repatriate.

Date
March 12, 933
Place

1000_PO

Regestum

Venetian Doge Pietro II Orseolo departs with his navy on a military expedition against Croats and Narantines in Dalmatia; on his journey, the doge stops at Poreč and Pula where he is cordially greeted by the bishops, clergy, and citizens of these Istrian cities (narrative account from John the Deacon’s Istoria Veneticorum).

Date
May 9, 1000

1093_PAP

Regestum

King Henry IV donates regalian rights over the Bishopric of Pula, namely the right to appoint and invest bishops, to the Patriarchate of Aquileia.

Date
1093 or 1094

1118_SH

Regestum

Siegried and Heliza, the noble citizens of Poreč, donate their possessions, a church dedicated to St. Peter in Poreč with all its dependencies and an allod called Mount Petrosus, to St. Michael’s monastery in Pula.

Date
1118

1132_PI

Regestum

Pope Innocent II confirms the rights and privileges of the incumbent Aquileian patriarch: the metropolitan jurisdiction over sixteen bishoprics, including all the disputed Istrian dioceses, and seven monasteries, 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.

Date
June 29, 1132
Place

1150_FV

Regestum

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.

Date
Between 1150 and 1152, traditionally dated to 1150.

1153_PP

Regestum

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.

Date
April 2, 1153
Place

1177_PA

Regestum

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.

Date
1177, after March 25, before October
Place

1180_FA

Regestum

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.

Date
January 25, 1180
Place

1180_GA

Regestum

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.

Date
July 24, 1180
Place

1199_PP

Regestum

In the name of the community of Prnjani, Stepizus subjects his village to the podestà and the Commune of Pula under the same conditions and promising the same oath as the villagers of Barban.

Date
March 4, 1199
Place

1264_MG

Regestum

Monfiorito of Pula pledges loyalty to the Aquileian Patriarch Gregory of Montelongo, promising to uphold the rights and honor of his Church, to reimburse all goods received from the patriarch and his people, to immediately and unconditionally withdraw from Motovun, and to appoint suitable sureties for the fulfillment of these commitments in form of sworn guarantors. This oath is subsequently reaffirmed in Muggia as Monfiorito, along with the representatives of the Commune of Pula, provides thirty-one persons as his sworn guarantors.

Date
July 6 and July 17, 1264