Vol. 4: A 1209 usque ad 1300

Berthold V of Andechs, the patriarch of Aquileia, and Count Maynard III of Gorizia, the advocate of the Church of Aquileia, arrange a deal regarding the marriage of their respective ministerials, Stephan of Castelnuovo (the count's ministerial) and Ingelradis of Pinzano (from the family of the patriarch’s ministerials).

Master Vivian, chaplain of the Patriarch of Aquileia and procurator of Count Meinhard III of Gorizia, presents letters to Doge Jacopo Tiepolo demanding observance of their agreement prohibiting any reprisals against the count (under penalty of 10,000 marks), prompted by a case involving robberies of Venetian citizens in the count’s jurisdictions, to which the doge affirms his compliance.

The Venetian navy sets out to engage the inimical fleet of Emperor Frederick II and the Pisans, but the Commune of Pula refuses to arm a galley for the military undertaking, provoking Venice to attack the city and raze its walls; on the way back, in October of the same year, the Venetians attack the rebelling Pula once again (narrative account from Andrea Dandolo’s Chronica per extensum descripta).

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 communes of Venice and Pula sign a new peace treaty and agree on ten articles regulating their future relations.

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 envoys of the Aquileian Patriarch Berthold negotiate a new peace treaty with Venice, ending all the conflicts regarding trade, traffic, salt production, dues and the restitution of movable and immovable properties, confirming and reinstating the old pacts signed between the two dominions.

Wilhelm of Fontanabona sells Count Maynard III of Gorizia all his serfs throughout Istria, from San Giovanni di Duino southwards, for 1200 pounds of Veronese pennies. The Count promises to repay the debt in two installments: 600 pounds to be paid on the following feast of St. Peter and 600 on the following Christmas Day.

Patriarch Berthold V of Andechs and Count Maynard III of Gorizia elect arbitrators to arbitrate their disputes.

Settlement of dispute between the Patriarch Bertold V and Count Maynard III of Gorizia by way of the arbitrational sentence promulgated by arbiters Bernard of Strassold and Clizo of Mels. Among other things, the Gorizian is forced to relinquish everything he had usurped in Istria.

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.

On his way from German lands to Apulia, the new king of the Romans, Conrad IV, travels through Istria (narrative account from the anonymous continuator of Genoese Annals).

Roman king Conrad IV orders Berthold, the margrave of Vohburg-Hohenburg, to explain to the podestà of Koper, Andrea Zeno, and to the Capodistrians under his authority, how the Margraviate of Istria is an imperial land bestowed unto the late Aquileian Patriarch Berthold V of Andechs by the king’s father (Emperor Frederick II), but now, with the patriarch’s death, the Empire can again freely dispose with the Margraviate and therefore, the citizens of Koper should not swear any fealty to the newly elected Aquileian Patriarch Gregory of Montelongo, but persevere in their allegiance to the Empire.

Roman King Conrad IV accords privileges of the free elections of podestàs to the Commune of Koper, as long as they are elected from among those faithful to the Empire.

Roman King Conrad IV issued a privilege to the Commune of Poreč, granting it the right of free election of their podestas, recognizing the city’s regalian rights and the jurisdictions over its district, allowing the imperial notaries to freely exercise their trade in the city and its district, granting it the right to retain the incomes from tolls levied on commercial goods entering the city by land, and giving it the permission to lawfully and securely trade with the Kingdom of Sicily.

Patriarch elect Gregory of Montelongo promises to Count Maynard III of Gorizia, the advocate of the Church of Aquileia, to recognize the arbitrational settlement between him and the late Patriarch Berthold (doc. 1251_SA), and that he would seek its confirmation by the Holy See.

Count Maynard III of Gorizia, the advocate of the Church of Aquileia, designates Ranieri Geno, the doge of Venice, as his official arbitrator in all the disputes he and his subjects have had with the Commune of Venice and the Venetian subjects.

Gregory of Montelongo, patriarch-elect of Aquileia, signs a treaty with Doge Ranieri Zeno and the Commune of Venice, renewing the old pacts signed between his predecessors and the Venetians, guaranteeing the safety of Venetian merchants throughout the Patriarchate, their privileged judicial status, abolishing all the newly instituted fees, and terminating the disputes between the two dominions.

Gregory of Montelongo, patriarch of Aquileia, voices his objections and presents his interpretation of certain articles of the pact signed with the doge and the Commune of Venice in front of the Venetian Great Council.

Gregory of Montelongo, patriarch of Aquileia, gives his solemn pledge to the ambassadors of the Venetian doge to honor and uphold the pacts signed between the two dominions.

Egno, bishop of Trento, enfeoffs Count Maynard III of Gorizia and his descendants with all that the late Count Ulrich of Ulten and the late brothers George and Frederick, counts of Appiano, had held as fiefs from the Church of Trento, the count swearing fealty and pledging to uphold the bishop's honor and jurisdiction as the count of Tyrol had done before him, and the bishop appointing Bertongus de Mays to induct the count into corporal possession of the fief.

Count Maynard III of Gorizia, the advocate of the Church of Aquileia, gives his solemn pledge to the ambassadors of the Venetian doge to honor and uphold the pacts signed between the Commune of Venice and Aquileian Patriarch Gregory of Montelongo.

Count Maynard III of Gorizia grants Winther of Pazin and his wife Hedwig the castle of Gotnik with its dependencies and revenues, with the exception of the household of Puzil of Karsperg. In addition, Winther is granted half of the revenues of the wine tithe on the mountain called Ungara, and the rights Count Maynard III had in Winther’s three villages. The granted fief is inheritable in both male and female lines, and its possession is conditional upon faithful service to House Gorizia.

Granting the petition of the envoys of Koper, Aquileian Patriarch and Istrian Margrave Gregory of Montelongo grants the Commune of Koper the right to elect a Venetian as their podestà for a term of one year.

Having petitioned and received the right to elect their own podestà for a year, the envoys of the Commune of Motovun elect Senisio de Bernardis of Padua as their podestà, and the Patriarch-Margrave Gregory of Montelongo approves the election.