Due to fair treatment and continuous protection, the city of Koper, represented by a locopositus, scabini, the protector of the people (advocatus totius populi) and many others, freely promise an annual gift of one hundred amphorae of wine to the Venetian Doge Pietro II Candiano, to be paid every year within ten days of the harvest, guarantee protection to all Venetians in their city, and prompt debt recovery.
The people of the Commune of Pula swear fealty to Doge Pietro Polani and to the Commune of Venice, promising military aid in the form of arming one galley per every fifteen Venetian galleys during Venetian military campaigns, to support the Venetian military efforts in the Adriatic, in the zone between Dubrovnik, Venice, and Ancona, and to defend Venice if they see hostile ships approaching their city, exempting the Venetians from all the dues and tolls in their city except the harbor tax (portaticus), guaranteeing safety and judicial autonomy in disputes between Venetians and the citizens of Pula, gifting the doge and the Commune of Venice with a house by the city’s gates, and agreeing to swear the same promise of fealty to every new doge upon his consecration; the doge and the Commune of Venice agree to defend the Commune of Pula against their enemies and to treat the citizens of Pula as their own citizens in Venice.
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.
The people and the clergy of Pula agree to a final settlement with Venice whereby they fully acknowledge their fault for the military actions directed against them and renounce all their claims for further recompense and restitutions.
The Commune of Koper, represented by the podestà and three consuls, endows the Bishopric of Koper with four villages – Lopar, Padna, Brič and Srmin –, a thousand vineyards, and with the oil tithes of the entire city, forbidding the bishops of Koper to ever enfeoff or otherwise alienate the endowed rights and possessions.
The Commune of Koper issues a decree according to which all who hold vineyards from the Bishopric and fail to pay their dues are to lose these vineyards, while those neglecting oil tithe payments to the Bishopric must render double the owed amount.
In the name of the community of Barban, Pribislav, the gastald of Barban, subjects his village to the podestà and the Commune of Pula, promising to pay the standard dues – the quarter of the tithe and the grazing due – to the Commune of Pula and to receive justice from the podestà and the magistrates of Pula; the subjection is subsequently ratified by twelve people of Barban.
In the name of the community of Prnjani, Stepizus subjects his village to the podestà and the Commune of Pula under the same conditions and promising the same oath as the villagers of Barban.
Faced with the might of the Venetian navy and the crusading army on their way to Constantinople, the people of Trieste 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 fifty urns 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.
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.
In the name of their city, the consuls of Poreč renew their oath of fealty to Venice, promising to observe their oath pledged to Doge Domenico Morosini in 1150 to the letter (doc. 1150_FV), and to give the fifteen pounds of oil for the illumination of St. Mark’s church in Venice to the clergy of that church every year on Candlemas (February 2).
Nicolò Cocco, podestà of Koper, in agreement with the Major and Minor civic councils and by the authority of the entire Commune, appoints Emery Spandinuces as authorized representative of the Commune in the dispute between the Commune of Koper and the Monastery of St. Mary of Aquileia; Emery is authorized to elect arbitrators and mediators, and to give and receive security for the arbitration settlement agreed in writing between the podestà of Koper and the abbess of St. Mary’s monastery.
The representatives of the Commune of Trieste pledge fealty to Venice, promising to observe the pacts agreed by the two polities regarding the rights, status, and mercantile freedoms of the Venetians in Trieste (the edition includes the appended and originally undated pact between Venice and Trieste mediated by the prior of Santa Maria dei Crociferi and Pietro Zeno, and the oaths of consuls of Trieste and Venetian advocates serving in Trieste).
Nascingwera, the regalian podestà of Pula, and the communal council of the city elect and constitute priest Hugh and subdeacon John de Spago as the official representatives of the Commune of Pula, delegated to sign a new peace treaty with the doge and the Commune of Venice following their recent inimicalities.
The people of Pula, united in the general assembly, formally ratify the treaty signed between the representatives of their commune and Venice on January 21, 1243 (doc. 1243_PP).
The Commune of Poreč constitutes a Tergestus de Raphaele as its procurator, tasked with petitioning the right to elect the podestà of Poreč for the following year from Patriarch-Margrave Gregory of Montelongo and, in case the petition is granted, to elect whomever he wishes for the next podestà of Poreč.
The Commune of Poreč constitutes Boniface, the patriarch’s gastald in Poreč, as its procurator tasked with petitioning the right to elect the podestà of Poreč for the following year from Patriarch-Margrave Gregory of Montelongo and, in case the petition is granted, to elect whomever he wishes for the next podestà of Poreč and have it confirmed by the patriarch.
The Commune of Pula constitutes a Lazarus as its procurator, tasked to journey to Friuli and petition the current government for the right to elect a podestà to govern the city for another year.
The Commune of Koper authorizes ten of its citizens to represent the Commune in reaching a peace treaty between the patriarch of Aquileia and the count of Gorizia.
The Commune of Piran constitutes its procurators and authorizes them to journey to Venice and offer the subjection of their commune to the doge and the Commune of Venice and negotiate the terms of this subjection.
The Commune of Pula formally assents to adhere to the decrees regarding their newly built walls facing the sea promulgated by the Venetian Council of Forty (doc. 1300_MP1).
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.
The Commune of Pula constitutes its representatives to journey to Venice and negotiate a new pact between the two communes.
The Commune of Pula constitutes thirteen official procurators to offer dominion over their city to the doge and the Commune of Venice.
The Commune of Bale constitutes its official procurators to journey to Venice and offer dominion over their commune to the doge and the Commune of Venice.