Humagum, commune (Umag / Umago)

700_AR

Regestum

Istria as described in the chapters of Cosmography, penned by the anonymous Ravenna Cosmographer (Anonymus Ravennas), including the region's rendition on the famous Peutinger's Map (Tabula Peutingeriana).

Date
Undated; traditionally dated to late 7th/early 8th century, c. 700.
Place

929_HT

Regestum

King Hugo donates Sipar, Umag, and Monfalcone to Radald, the bishop of Trieste, and places the Bishopric of Trieste under his royal protection; a forged charter.

Date
7th of August, 929
Place

974_PG

Regestum

Emperor Otto II confirms to Patriarch Vitalis of Grado and the bishops subject to him the jurisdictions, immunities, and other rights of their churches.

Date
April 2, 974
Place

1037_KE1

Regestum

Emperor Conrad II donates Umag to the Bishopric of Novigrad as both an ecclesiastical and temporal possession; 16th-century forgery.

Date
17th of August, 1037
Place

1039_HET

Regestum

Henry III, King of the Romans, confirms the donations of his predecessors to the Bishopric of Trieste as well as all the immunities and privileges enjoyed by the said Church, including the jurisdiction over Umag and Monfalcone.

Date
30th of December, 1039
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.

1285_PAV

Regestum

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.

Date
March 8, 1285
Place

1286_VAI

Regestum

The elected arbitrators and envoys deliberate over the dispute between the Commune of Venice and the Patriarchate of Aquileia regarding the jurisdiction over Istrian communes recognizing Venetian authority, reaching absolutely no conclusion after six sessions.

Date
January 22/23–March 5, 1286
Place

1289_VA1

Regestum

Records of negotiations between Venice and Patriarch Raymond della Torre regarding jurisdictions in Istria, mediated by Bishop Bernard of Tripoli: first, Venice elects its negotiators; second, Patriarch Raymond issues his statement; third, the Venetian envoys present their terms in two separate statements; finally, Patriarch Raymond responds to Venetian terms and a semblance of a peace treaty begins to take shape.

Date
October 13, 1289

1289_VA2

Regestum

Records of negotiations between Venice and Patriarch Raymond della Torre regarding jurisdictions in Istria, mediated by Bishop Bernard of Tripoli. On Bernard’s suggestion, the parties negotiate regarding a partial restitution of Venetian towns in Istria, a two-year truce, and a lasting peace following the promulgation of the arbitrational sentence of Pope Nicholas IV, the jointly elected judge arbiter in the dispute regarding Istrian jurisdictions.

Date
October 23, 1289
Place

1289_VA4

Regestum

Records of negotiations between Venice and Patriarch Raymond della Torre regarding jurisdictions in Istria, mediated by Bishop Bernard of Tripoli. After Patriarch Raymond’s reply and counterproposal, a final sketch of the treaty is presented to the parties.

Date
November 2, 1289
Place

1379_MRI

Regestum

Since Pietro Doria, the general captain of the Genoese armada, conquered Rovinj, fort Turnina, and Umag in Istria, as well as Grado in the Dogado, and relinquished all of these territories to the Patriarchate of Aquileia, Marquard of Randeck, Aquileian patriarch, returns the favour to admiral Doria and the Commune of Genoa by bestowing upon them various privileges in the said territories, including the right to appoint their own consuls to administer justice to the Genoese, as well as the complete exemption from all the tolls and taxes.

Date
1st of August, 1379
Place

1470_SM249

Regestum

Due to poor management of public granaries throughout Istria, where the managers of these granaries used the money for other purposes rather than to purchase grains and other necessary items to feed the poor, the Venetian Senate enacts several rules to remedy this situation.

Date
September 24, 1470
Place