Wodalricus II, patriarcha Aquileiensis (1161-1182)

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).

Aquileian patriarch Ulrich II together with his parents, Count Wolverad II and Countess Emma II, donate Treffen and Tiffen with all their dependencies and all their properties around Lake Ossiach, Treffen Valley, Wollanig, Gratschach and St. Ulrich together with their dependencies to the Church of Aquileia.

Ulrich, the former margrave of Tuscany, together with his wife Diemot donate the castle of Attimis with the appertaining village, the castle Partistagno, the villages Porzùs, Subìt, Prossenicco, Cergneu, Chialminis, Lucinico, Piedimonte, Orehovlje, Vipolže and Volče, their properties in Breginj and Logje, their allod in Nimis and their court in Ariis, together with their ministerials, to the Church of Aquileia and Patriarch Ulrich II; the ministerials pledge their oath of fealty to their new lord, the patriarch of Aquileia.

The consuls and the people of Pula write to the patriarch of Aquileia Ulrich II, informing him that they are aware of the emperor’s arrival (in the vicinity of Venice) and that the imperial assembly will be convened on May 22; therefore, they ask him to take up with the emperor their complaints against the Venetians, who treat them as their subjects.

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.

Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa confirms the rights and jurisdictions of the Patriarchate of Aquileia and assumes this church under imperial protection, confirming all the previous donations issued to the patriarchs by his predecessors kings and empires, by the popes, and by other laymen.

The incumbent patriarchs of Grado and Aquileia, Enrico Dandolo and Ulrich of Treffen respectively, solemnly end the centuries-old conflict between the two churches regarding the metropolitan jurisdictions over the Istrian bishoprics: the patriarch of Grado renounces the metropolitan pretensions of his church, the treasury that Patriarch Poppo took from Grado, and the possessions in Marsano, Aquileia, Zèmole and Marano Lagunare, but receives the spiritual jurisdiction over the parishes Latisana and San Fior, together with the quarter of the tithes and the annual income of up to seventy pounds of Veronese coins.

Pope Alexander III confirms the compromise concluded between Enrico Dandolo, the patriarch of Grado, and Ulrich II of Treffen, the patriarch of Aquileia (doc. 1180_GA).

Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI confirms the rights of the Patriarchate of Aquileia over the Duchy of Friuli, including the incomes from the administration of criminal justice, and all documented agreements made between Patriarch Peregrine I and Count Maynard of Gorizia as well as Patriarch Ulrich II and Count Engelbert II of Gorizia regarding advocacy and other matters.

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.

Otto IV, King of the Romans, confirms the rights of the Patriarchate of Aquileia over the Duchy of Friuli, including the incomes from the administration of criminal justice, and all documented agreements made between Patriarch Peregrine I and Count Maynard I of Gorizia as well as Patriarch Ulrich II and Count Engelbert II of Gorizia regarding advocacy and other matters.