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, Pula 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

1205_PV

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

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Regestum

The Commune of Venice and the Commune of Trieste sign a new treaty, ending all hostilities and reconfirming the old pacts between the two polities; the Commune of Trieste is required to relinquish the sequestered ship (over which the conflict originally started), to swear fealty and obedience to the doges and the Commune of Venice, to raise to standard of St. Mark on the day of election of a new Venetian doge and on every Easter day, to observe the old treaties with Venice, to pay all the fines incurred for not respecting these old treaties, and to consign to Venice those responsible for the attack on the sequestered ship.

Date
September 3, 1368
Place