Mugla, commune (Muggia / Milje)

Hugh of Arles and his son Lothair II, kings of Italy, donate Muggia to the Patriarchate of Aquileia.

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.

Emperor Frederick I confirms the rights and possessions of the Bishopric of Torcello.

Faced with the might of the Venetian navy and the crusading army on their way to Constantinople, the people of Muggia ask forgiveness from Doge Enrico Dandolo for their past transgressions, and promise fealty to the doge and the Commune of Venice, guaranteeing the safety and duty-free trading for the Venetians throughout their jurisdictions, aid in combating piracy in the zone from Rovinj northward, a tribute of twenty-five amphorae of wine paid yearly on St. Martin’s feast day and transported to the ducal palace in Venice, and generally to perform all the duties promised by other Istrian communities.

Having petitioned and received the right to elect their own podestà for a year, the envoys of the Commune of Motovun elect Senisio de Bernardis of Padua as their podestà, and the Patriarch-Margrave Gregory of Montelongo approves the election.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Venice signs a peace treaty with the patriarch of Aquileia, Count Albert I of Gorizia, and the Commune of Trieste, ending their final conflict and restoring amicable relations as defined by their previous pacts; Venice retains the jurisdictions over the subjected communities in Istria with the exception of Muggia, Buje, and Dvigrad; the settlement of the dispute over the jurisdictions in Istria between Venice and the Patriarchate of Aquileia is entrusted to Pope Nicholas IV.

By way of its elected representative, the Commune of Muggia swears to uphold its customary fealty to the doge and the Commune of Venice, in turn receiving from the Venetian representative the official standard of St. Mark.

In a detailed apologia addressed to the Patriarch of Aquileia [Anthony Caetani], the margrave of Istria [Bernard of Oltraponte] defends his conduct and that of his subjects of Buzet against Venetian accusations of robbery and border violence, vividly recounting a tangled web of raids, retaliations, fugitive robbers, and contested jurisdictions in late-fourteenth century Margraviate of Istria.

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.