Vol. 3: A 1077 usque ad 1209

In response to the plea of the citizens of Koper, Doge Orio Mastropiero and the Commune of Venice issue a privilege to Koper, constituting it the only licensed port for salt trade in entire Istria, from Pula to Grado, and granting it a galley by which the citizens of Koper are to oversee the salt trade along the western coast of Istria; the privilege is accorded for twenty-nine years.

Pope Urban III confirms to Henry Dandolo, the incumbent patriarch of Grado, the patriarchal dignity, primacy over the Archbishopric of Zadar, properties, jurisdictions and metropolitan authority over the ecclesiastical province of the Church of Grado, along with the right to bear the cross and pallium on specific feast days.

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.

Adalbert, the count of Istria, pronounces a sentence regarding the jurisdictions over the territories of Gradina (Calisedo) claimed by both the commune of Sv. Lovreč and the heirs of Adalburn, vassals of Gerold of Pula, the lord of Gradina.

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.

Engelbert III, the count of Gorizia, solemnly promises to Peter, the bishop of Poreč, that both he and his vassals will faithfully serve and guard the rights and possessions of his Church.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Wolfger, the patriarch of Aquileia and margrave of Istria, confirms the boundaries of the territories under the jurisdictions of the bishops of Poreč (13^th-century forgery).

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.

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).

King Philip invests Patriarch Wolfger with imperial regalian rights and attests that his successors do not need to journey to German lands to receive the regalian investiture because the patriarchs of Aquileia are one of the Italian ecclesiastical princes.

In the name of Patriarch Wolfger of Aquileia, Henry of Gemona swears to Marco Barozzi, the envoy of Venetian Doge Pietro Zani, to uphold the treaties concluded between the Patriarchate and Venice, namely to ensure the safety of Venetian merchants throughout the patriarch’s secular dominion, to guarantee the reimbursement to any Venetian robbed within these territories, and to promptly announce to the Venetians if the Empire is planning any hostilities directed against them.

Otto VIII of Wittelsbach, count palatine of Bavaria, together with the men of Bishop Ekbert of Bamberg and Istrian Margrave Henry, brothers of House Andechs, murder King Philip of Swabia (notices from the contemporary chronicler Burchard of Ursberg).

At the imperial Diet of Frankfurt, King Otto IV is officially recognized as the sole monarch; the king punishes the culprits involved in the assassination of his rival, the late King Philip of Swabia, including Henry IV of Andechs, the margrave of Istria (notices from the contemporary narrative source Cronica Sancti Petri Erfordensis moderna).

King Otto IV confirms the Duchy of Bavaria to Duke Ludwig of Bavaria and his heirs, bestows upon the same duke the farm of Mering with income of 200 marks, and the imperial fiefs of the murderers of Philip of Swabia - Count Palatine of Bavaria Otto VIII of Wittelsbach and Henry IV of Andechs, the margrave of Istria - including the Margraviate of Istria.

The communes of Piran and Rovinj sign a peace treaty under specific terms, including war reparations of twenty silver marks paid by Piran to Rovinj, mutual protection of persons and goods, prohibition of military cooperation with Koper against Rovinj, and binding oaths from all household heads to maintain the agreement under penalty of one hundred marks.