Portole, commune (Oprtalj / Portole)

1072_DM

Regestum

Patriarch Ulrich I of Aquileia completes the foundation of the monastery of Moggio begun by his predecessor Frederick at Count Kazelin’s request, endowing it with the count's allodial properties and adding his own donations, including Oprtalj and the mills in Lim Bay in Istria.

Date
November 10, 1072 (1074 or 1089 according to the indiction); 12th century forgery

1136_PM

Regestum

Patriarch Peregrine I of Aquileia confirms the foundation and possessions of the monastery of Saint Gall in Moggio, originally donated and endowed by Patriarch Ulrich I with properties bestowed by Count Kazelin, adding further privileges, tithes, and jurisdictional rights, and prohibiting their alienation or infringement under threat of anathema.

Date
1136 (after September 23)
Place

1166_MP

Regestum

Ulrich II, patriarch elect of Aquileia, exchanges properties with Abbot Ulrich and the St. Gall’s Monastery of Moggio, bestowing the estate that was previously held in fief from the Patriarchate of Aquileia by a certain Vetradis, wife of Eckbert, at San Canziano and from Fiumicello to the Karst, and receiving Oprtalj in Istria in return. Following the death of Vetradis, Ulrich II, patriarch elect of Aquileia, confirms the exchanged property to the monastery and establishes an anniversary for himself and his predecessors.

Date
1166 (the first document sometime before February 22, the second on February 22)

1280_IURA

Regestum

Aquileian patriarch [Raymond della Torre] catalogs his supposed rights and prerogatives in Istria to Venetian ambassadors [Marino Dauro and Pietro Tiepolo] – the Iura domini patriarche ac ecclesie Aquilegiensis in tota Istria.

Date
October 1280, after doc. 1280_CD (October 4)

1297_WP

Regestum

Weichard II of Petrapilosa swears before Patriarch Raymond della Torre to abide by the mandates of the Church of Aquileia regarding the damage he inflicted while serving the counts of Gorizia, namely Henry II and his father Albert I, in the war between against the patriarch, whereas the patriarch, accepting the pledge of fealty, absolves him from the excommunication he had imposed on him, declaring that he cannot do the same for the destruction of the bell tower of Oprtalj, a destruction that Weichard attributes to Count Henry II of Gorizia, who, being present, declares himself responsible for it.

Date
October 26, 1297
Place

1304_MP

Regestum

On behalf of the commune and the podestà of Motovun, syndic John called Charles of Motovun formally protests before the magistrates and the people of Buzet against unauthorized use of Motovun’s forests and marshlands, declares the ancient boundaries of these woodlands, and threatens penalties for future violations.

Date
February 15, 1304
Place

1321_MP

Regestum

In a dispute over trees cut in a forest claimed by both Motovun and Završje, Federico Corner, podestà of Motovun, and Hartwig of Michelsburg, captain of Završje, oversee the sworn testimony of elderly witnesses affirming Motovun’s historical possession of the contested woodlands, leading Corner to declare the forest and the use of its resources as Motovun’s legal right and full ownership, with Hartwig not objecting to the ruling and ordering the return of the trees’ deposited value to Motovun.

Date
July 18, 1321
Place

1377_MP2

Regestum

At the plea of the gastald, meriga, and the judges of Oprtalj, Patriarch Marquard of Randeck grants the Commune of Oprtalj a certain grazing land in the district of Petrapilosa.

Date
October 21, 1377
Place

1389_PI

Regestum

Aquileian Patriarch John of Moravia confirms the fief called “The Third Share of the Treasury of Oprtalj” to Simon, son of late Črnja, and Dionysius, son of Stephan, his faithful subjects and citizens of Oprtalj.

Date
February 10, 1389
Place

1412_SS2708A

Regestum

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

Date
August 27, 1412
Place

1412_VP

Regestum

Venetian Doge Michele Steno confirms the enfeoffment done by Patriarch John of Moravia and re-invests Dionysius, son of late Stephen, with the fief he and his ancestors enjoyed from the Patriarchate of Aquileia.

Date
August 29, 1412
Place

1421_SS58

Regestum

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.

Date
2nd and 5th of August, 1421
Place

1423_SM215

Regestum

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.

Date
21st of May, 1423
Place

1444_MC77

Regestum

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.

Date
7th of June, 1444
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

1474_PD

Regestum

At the request of Stephen Satarel, the representative of the parish church of Saint George, Zorzi Sagredo, the incumbent podestà of Oprtalj, confirms the ancient boundaries between the tithe pertaining to the treasury of the parish church and that pertaining to the Bishopric of Novigrad, establishing that the tithe on lands situated above the boundary line (from the Carmargnach mill to Solina) belongs to the parish, while the bishop is entitled to the tithe on lands below the said line; the podestà condemns Mochor Turrina, lessee of the episcopal tithe, to restore what he has unlawfully collected and to pay the costs of the judicial process.

Date
January 15, 1474
Place

1483_PD

Regestum

At the request of Francis, the representative of the bishop of Novigrad, the podestà of Oprtalj orders Bertolo Golcih, treasurer of the parish church of St. George, and the other wardens of the churches and confraternities of Oprtalj to appear within one month to respond to the bishop’s claim regarding the collection of tithes on properties bequeathed to the said churches by deceased persons.

Date
November 6, 1483
Place

1518_PD

Regestum

Marco Antonio Foscarini, the bishop of Novigrad, and Andrea Ferro, syndic and procurator of the Commune of Oprtalj, settle the dispute concerning tithes on properties acquired by the treasury of the parish church of St. George and by other churches and confraternities of Oprtalj, establishing that said institutions shall pay the bishop in perpetuity the tithe on all properties acquired from private persons and of which memory still subsists, excepting only original endowment properties; in return, the bishop lifts the ecclesiastical interdict and grants absolution from excommunication with which he had struck the people and the Commune of Oprtalj due to unfulfilled tithe payments.

Date
March 3, 1518
Place