Villae Istriae

Istria as described in the chapters of Cosmography, penned by the anonymous Ravenna Cosmographer (Anonymus Ravennas), including the region's rendition on the famous Peutinger's Map (Tabula Peutingeriana).

Emperor Charlemagne subordinates six episcopal sees to the Church of Aquileia, badly damaged by the incursions of the pagans; late-10th-century forgery.

King Berengar I donates two forts, the Vermes (Beram in Istria ?), to the Bishopric of Trieste (10^th- or 11^th-century forgery).

Emperor Otto II confirms the jurisdictions of the bishops of Poreč and grants them immunities.

A public placitum held in front of Istrian Count Werihen whereby the dispute between the Bishopric of Poreč, represented by Bishop Andrew, and a Bertha, a widow of a Cadoloh, regarding the latter's fiscal obligations towards the Church of Poreč (herbaticum and glandaticum) is judged in Bertha's favor.

Emperor Otto III confirms the donation of six bishoprics to the Patriarchate of Aquileia issued by Charlemagne and donates three abbeys to the same Church.

King Henry II confirms Otto III’s donations of Pazin and Pićan to the Church of Aquileia and donates various jurisdictions in these two places, terrains to both sides of the river Raša, and the port of Plomin.

Pope John XIX confirms the possessions of the Patriarchate of Grado.

Emperor Conrad II donates Lovrečica to the Bishopric of Novigrad.

Henry IV, King of the Romans, donates properties in Istria to Margrave Ulrich I of Weimar-Orlamünde for his faithful service.

Henry IV, King of the Romans, donates the village Zrenj in the March of Istria to his faithful subject Adalbert.

King Henry IV confirms the jurisdictions and immunities of the Bishopric of Poreč.

Ulrich II donates Sočerga to the Church of Aquileia.

Ulrich II Weimar-Orlamünde and his wife Adelaide donate their possessions in the County of Istria to Patriarch Ulrich of Eppenstein and the Church of Aquileia.

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.

Aquileian Patriarch and Istrian Margrave Wolfger confirms the temporal jurisdictions that the Church of Poreč enjoys by way of donations issued by previous patriarchs of Aquileia (13^th-century forgery).

The Bishopric of Poreč, represented by Bishop Adalpero and the local Chapter, and the Commune of Poreč, represented by the gastald, the meriga, and three consuls, conjointly elect eight honorable citizens of Poreč to define the borders of the city’s district from which the bishops had the right to quartese, that is, a quarter of the tithe.

Count Maynard III of Gorizia gives Pietro Dandolo another third of the fief that his uncle and father, Maynard II and Engelbert III, had granted to the late brothers Andrea and Enrico Dandolo and their nephew Marino. The Dandolos thus concentrate two-thirds of the said fief in their hands, which includes half of the tithes in Kaštion and Pidrizago and eight tithes in Piran.

Aquileian Patriarch and Margrave of Istria and Carniola Gregory of Montelongo invests Henry of Pazin and his heirs, represented by Cono of Momjan, with several fiefs which included Lupoglav and the adjacent village Gorenja Vas in Istria.

Aquileian Patriarch Raymond della Torre promises Count Albert I of Gorizia that he will grant him the village of Barban in Istria, in accordance with the terms of arbitration previously agreed upon by their respective representatives, once he has received absolution from his current excommunication, so that the excommunication shall not prejudice Albert’s future claim to the property.

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.

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.