Enrico Dandolo, dux Veneciarum (1192-1205)

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Regestum

On their way to engage the inimical Pisan fleet, the Venetian armada stops in Pula to receive additional military support; met with refusal, the Venetian fleet attacks Pula, razes its walls, and sacks the city; defeated, Venice reacknowledges fealty owed to Venice (narrative account as featured in the so-called Annales Venetici brevis).

Date
August of 1195
Place

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Regestum

Venetian Doge Enrico Dandolo accepts the demands of Aquileian Patriarch Peregrine II and agrees to offer help – mainly political and diplomatic, but also, if need be, military – against the Commune of Treviso, but asks for a number of concessions in return, all of which are granted by the patriarch with the sole exception of military aid.

Date
June of 1200
Place

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Regestum

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.

Date
October 27, 1202

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Regestum

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.

Date
Between the 28th and the 31st of October, 1202
Place

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Regestum

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).

Date
May 21, 1205