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Vol. 3: A 1077 usque ad 1209
Date
11th of June, 1206
Place
Regestum

King Philip invests Patriarch Wolfger with imperial regalian rights and attests that his successors do not need to journey to German lands to receive the regalian investiture because the patriarchs of Aquileia are one of the Italian ecclesiastical princes.

Source
The original is lost; the charter survives in several later manuscript traditions of which the two principal ones are:
C = San Daniele del Friuli, Biblioteca civica Guarneriana, ms. 212 (Fontanini VIII), p. 299–300; 14th-century copy of a notarial copy made on the 3rd of September, 1256;
D = Venice, Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Archivio proprio Giusto Fontanini, box 1, folder 2, p. 499; 14th-century copy, under a subsequently added attestation Circa regalia quę habebant patriarchę Aquileienses tanquam principes Italie in Allemania, of a notarial copy made on the 9th of November, 1261.
Previous Editions
Andrea Rzihacek and Renate Spreitzer (eds.), Philippi regis diplomata / Die Urkunden Philipps von Schwaben, Monumenta Germaniae historica, Diplomata regum et imperatorum Germaniae 12 (Wiesbaden 2014), doc. 126, pp. 284–86.
FIM Edition
Diplomatic edition based on D, including the 1261 notarial attestation and certification (given in italics), with different readings from C and MGH edition reported in the critical apparatus.
Transcription

In Christi nomine. Exemplum ex autentico revelatum.

Philippus secundus divina favente clementia Romanorum rex et semper augustus.

Regalis magnificentie invariabilis equitas potestatis sue iura digne et laudabiliter exequitur cum unicuique id, quod iuris sui est, directo modernationis tramite recognoscit immoa largitur.

Inde est, quod cum habere videatur ratio, quod patriarche Aquilegensis ecclesie, eo quod sint principes Ytalieb, ab recipiendum ab Imperio sua regalia in Alemania[m]c scitari non debeant, contigit tamen quosdam ex ipsis in dictis partibus investiri. Dominus vero Volferus patriarcha, cum a Sede Apostolica missus in civitatem Nurenberc ad nos accederet et ad hec exigeretur ut a nobis regalia sua susciperet, allegare cepit, quod ad id faciendum propter predictam rationem non esset in Alemania constringendus.

Satis ergo concessimus, cum non debere constringi asseverantes tamen, quod si non vocatus ab Imperio intrare[t]d Alemaniam, quod bene deberet ibidem regalia suscipere, quemadmodum quidam sui fecisse dignoscunture predecessores. Ipse vero diu renitens tandem tamen inclinatus a nobis suscepit regalia, postulans sibi dari privilegium quod et fecimusf in hunc modum, ne hoc factum suum per successionemg temporum quandoque in commune deductum vel Imperio vel ipsi Aquilegensi ecclesie preiudicaret vel aliquatenus utriusqueh iuri derogareti.

Ad huiusj itaque facti perennem memoriam presentem paginam conscribi iussimus, et regiak maiestatisl karactere consignari.

Statuentes et regia auctoritate percipientes, ne cuiquam hominum hanc recognitionem nostram licitum sit perperam interpretari vel ei in aliquo temeritatis ausu obviare.

Testes autem huius rei sunt: E[kbertus] Babenbergensis episcopus, C[onradus] Tridentinusm episcopus, G[ebhardus] Tergestinensisn episcopus, Bernardus dux Karinthie, comes Meynharduso de Gorcep, comes U[lricus] de Eppanq, comes A[lbertus] de Tirolr, comes Ernestus de Viselkkes, Albertus de Entse, Albertus de Vangen, Verunherust de Rosevak, Hugou de Tuvers, Henricusv regalis aule dapifer, Henricus marscalkusw de Kallendin, Henricusx de Smalnekkey et alii quam plures.

Signum domini Philipi secundi Romanorum regis invictissimi (SM)z.

Actum apud Nurenberc anno ab incarnatione Domini millesimo IIcVIo, regnante domino Philippo Romanorum rege glorioso, anno regni eius VIIIo.

Ego Conradus Ratisponensis episcopus et regalis aule cancellarius recognovi.

Data per manuma' Sifridib' regalis aule prothonotariic' III idibus iunii, indictione VIIIIa.

Ego Walterius Civitatensis auctoritate domini Gregorii Aquilegensis patriarche notarius prescriptum privilegium vidi, legi, tenui et fideliter ascultavi, et de mandato michi facto per eundem venerabilem patrem dominum Gregorium Aquilegensem patriarcham sub anno Domini Mo ducentesimo LXIo , indictione IIIIta, die XIIII intrante novembre in Austria Civitate in patriarchali camera me subscripsi et in publicam formam redegi, nichil addens vel minuens quod ipsius sententiam variet sive sensum.

Ego Iohannes de Lupico sacri Imperii publicus notarius superscriptum privilegium vidi, legi, tenui et ascultavi et de mandato venerabilis patris domini Gregorii Dei gratia sancte Aquilegensis sedis patriarche me subscribens, signum meum apposui, anno, die, loco et indictione prescriptis.

Ego Guidoctus de Murolta civitatis Brixie notarius et scriptor dicti domini patriarche autenticum huius exempli vidi et legi et sicut in illo continebatur, ita in isto scriptum reperi, et me de mandato dicti domini patriarche subscripsi et signum meum apposui.

Apparato critico

a) ymmo ed. MGH.  bsic D; Italie C et ed. MGH.  c) videatur—Alemania] attramento rubro subsignavit D.  dsic intrare D; intraret C et ed. MGH.  e) dinosscuntur C.  f) cum non—et fecimus] subsignavit D.  g) successorem C.  h) utrique C; seq. ipsi add. C et ed. MGH.  i) denegaret C.  j) brevi C.  ksic D: pro regie, sicut ed. MGH.  l) magestatis C.  mom. C.  n) Tergestinus C.  o) Testes—Meynhardus] subsignavit D.  p) Gorze ed. MGH.  q) Pan C.  r) Tyrol C.  ssic D: pro Vilsekke, sicut C et ed. MGH.  tsic D: pro Werneherus, sicut C et ed. MGH.  u) Bugo C.  v) Henrichus C.  w) mareschalcus C.  x) Henrichus C.  y) Smalvelkk C.  zom. C.  a') manus C.  b') Safredi C.  c') protonotarii C.

Medieval Recollections

King Otto IV's re-issue of this charter from 1209 - edited here as 1209_W4.

"In undecimo [scrineo] sunt privilegia et iura imperialia et regalia de donationibus, concessionibus et confirmationibus factis domino patriarche et ecclesie Aquilegensi [...] et qualiter dominus patriarcha non tenetur ire in Alemaniam pro recipiendis feudis suis." - Thesauri claritas, opus saec. XIV, ed. Giuseppe Bianchi, Thesaurus ecclesiae Aquileiensis (Udine 1847), p. 14.

Selected Bibliography
Pio Paschini, “Il patriarcato di Wolfger di Ellenbrechtskirchen,” Memorie storiche forogiuliesi 10 (1914): p. 382.
Heinrich Schmidinger, Patriarch und Landesherr: Die weltliche Herrschaft der Patriarchen von Aquileia bis zum Ende der Staufer (Graz 1954), pp. 98–99.
Paul Zinsmaier, Die Urkunden Philipps von Schwaben und Ottos IV. (1198–1212) (Stuttgart 1969), p. 18.
Editor's Notes

As an Italian prince, the Patriarch of Aquileia had the right to receive the investiture of regalian rights from the ruler in Italy and was not supposed to be summoned to German lands to receive it. With the present charter, issued at Wolfger’s request, the patriarch wanted to ensure that no precedent would be set with this investiture of regalian rights in German lands (Schmidinger, cited above).

It should be noted that, at least according to Gislebert of Mons (c. 1150–1225), Patriarch Gottfried (1182–1194) could still be considered a “German prince”: “Et Theutonie princeps aderat unus tantummodo, scilicet patriarcha Aquilee.” (Chronicon Hanoniense, ed. Wilhelm Arndt, MGH, SS 21 (Hannover 1869), p. 575). Patriarch Wolfger, it would seem, aimed to finally make it clear to which part of the Imperium the Church of Aquileia officially belonged.

The charter was confirmed, or better say, reissued, by King Otto IV to the same Patriarch Wolfger during the imperial Diet at Augsburg on the 13th of January, 1209 – to be edited here presently.

How to Cite
First citation: Josip Banic (ed.), Fontes Istrie medievalis, vol. 3: A 1077 usque ad 1209, doc. 1206_PW, fontesistrie.eu/1206_PW (last access: date).
Subsequent citations: FIM, 3: doc. 1206_PW.
Facsimile
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