Venezia

880_PAV

Regestum

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.

Date
January of 880
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

1162_PAV

Regestum

Aquileian Patriarch Ulrich II of Treffen launches an attack on Venetian Grado as he tries to subjugate the competing patriarchal see; he fails miserably and ends up locked in a Venetian prison where he “buys” his freedom by signing a new treaty with Venice and agreeing to a yearly tribute of twelve loaves of bread and twelve pigs that his Church would perpetually bring to the ducal palace of Venice before the Fat Thursday festivities (narrative accounts from later Venetian chronicles).

Date
February of 1062 or 1064.
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

1182_PI

Regestum

In response to the plea of the citizens of Koper, Doge Orio Mastropiero and the Commune of Venice issue a privilege to Koper, constituting it the only licensed port for salt trade in entire Istria, from Pula to Grado, and granting it a galley by which the citizens of Koper are to oversee the salt trade along the western coast of Istria; the privilege is accorded for twenty-nine years.

Date
April of 1182
Place

1205_PW

Regestum

Patriarch Wolfger confirms to the monastery of Saint Nicholas of Lido in Venice the privileges and donations issued by his predecessors, patriarchs Pelegrin I, Ulrich II, Gottfried and Pelegrin II, including the right to freely travel across the Patriarchate and own property therein, three trading outposts in Aquileia, the monastery of St. Peter in Karst by Buje together with all of its properties, including the mill in Buzet and the right of advocacy relinquished by Advocate Maynard I of Gorizia.

Date
1205
Place

1222_VB

Regestum

Berthold V of Andechs, patriarch of Aquileia, and Count Maynard II of Gorizia, his advocate, promise to Doge Pietro Ziani and to the Commune of Venice the safety of Venetians living and operating within the confines of the temporal dominion of the Aquileian Church; promise to reimburse any Venetian if they end up robbed in the Patriarchate; to inform the Venetians if they find out that the Empire is planning any hostilities against them; and define the competences of the vicedominus of Aquileia; Venetians are promised exemptions from customs duties throughout the secular dominion of the Aquileian patriarchs and privileged judicial status.

Date
June 23, 1222
Place

1243_PP

Regestum

The communes of Venice and Pula sign a new peace treaty and agree on ten articles regulating their future relations.

Date
January 21, 1243 (1242 more Veneto)
Place

1248_VB

Regestum

The envoys of the Aquileian Patriarch Berthold negotiate a new peace treaty with Venice, ending all the conflicts regarding trade, traffic, salt production, dues and the restitution of movable and immovable properties, confirming and reinstating the old pacts signed between the two dominions.

Date
September 14, 1248
Place

1253_VM

Regestum

Count Maynard III of Gorizia, the advocate of the Church of Aquileia, designates Ranieri Geno, the doge of Venice, as his official arbitrator in all the disputes he and his subjects have had with the Commune of Venice and the Venetian subjects.

Date
April 12, 1253
Place

1254_VG

Regestum

Gregory of Montelongo, patriarch-elect of Aquileia, signs a treaty with Doge Ranieri Zeno and the Commune of Venice, renewing the old pacts signed between his predecessors and the Venetians, guaranteeing the safety of Venetian merchants throughout the Patriarchate, their privileged judicial status, abolishing all the newly instituted fees, and terminating the disputes between the two dominions.

Date
April 24, 1254
Place

1254_GV

Regestum

Gregory of Montelongo, patriarch of Aquileia, voices his objections and presents his interpretation of certain articles of the pact signed with the doge and the Commune of Venice in front of the Venetian Great Council.

Date
April 24, 1254
Place

1275_VR

Regestum

Manfred Cagapisto and Jacob Porrezionis, the official representatives of Aquileian Patriarch Raymond della Torre, conclude a new treaty with Doge Lorenzo Tiepolo and the Commune of Venice, reestablishing the relations as defined in a previous treaty from 1254 signed between Patriarch Gregory of Montelongo and Doge Ranieri Zeno; the representatives of the patriarch also promise to have the count of Gorizia sign the treaty once he settles his differences with the incumbent patriarch, to reimburse to the Venetians all the damages that they had suffered during the period in which the 1254 treaty had not been respected by the patriarchs, and to make sure that all the roads remain free and open to Venetian merchants.

Date
February 18, 1275 (1274 more Veneto).
Place

1280_CD

Regestum

Giovanni Dandolo, the doge of Venice, gives instructions to his ambassadors at the court of the Aquileian patriarch [Raymond della Torre], advising them on how to proceed on a number of issues, including the problems surrounding the Venetian jurisdictions in Istria, for which he recommends procuring a lease of the patriarch’s rights in the region.

Date
October 4, 1280
Place

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

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_VA3

Regestum

The Commune of Venice – represented by the deputies of the doge, who was too ill to attend personally, and the Great Council – constitute five procurators to enter into arbitration with Pope Nicholas IV and Bishop Bernard of Tripoli regarding the dispute with Aquileian Patriarch Raymond della Torre over Istrian jurisdictions and to sign a truce or a peace treaty with the same prelate.

Date
October 24, 1289
Place

1300_MP1

Regestum

The Council of Forty decrees that the new walls built by the Commune of Pula, erected on the coastal side of the city contrary to the ancient pacts (doc. 1243_PP), will be tolerated for now, but that the Commune of Pula must swear to demolish these walls as soon as the doge and the Commune of Venice command it; if Pula does not approve of this decree, the walls are to be demolished immediately.

Date
February 10, 1300 (1299 more Veneto)
Place

1300_VPA

Regestum

Peace treaty between Venice and the Patriarchate of Aquileia sanctioning Venetian jurisdiction over the Istrian communes that pledged themselves to the Republic of St. Mark in the last third of the 13th century.

Date
11th of June, 1300
Place

1312_SD

Regestum

Giovanni Soranzo writes to Marino Badoer, the incumbent podestà of Koper, informing him of his election as the new doge of Venice.

Date
July 13, 1312 (or very shortly thereafter)
Place

1319_PP

Regestum

Treaty between Venice and Pula regarding various pressing matters, the rights of Venetians in Pula, and commercial issues.

Date
February 8, 1319
Place