Patriarchal State of Friuli
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Patria del Friuli Patria Fori Iulii (Latin) Patrie dal Friûl (Friulian) |
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.svg) The Patria del Friuli/Patriarchate of Aquileia (red) at the time of the Hohenstaufen Emperors (circa 1250). The pale highlighted area shows the March of Verona.
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| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Duchy of Friuli incorporated into the Francia as the March of Friuli | 774 | ||||||||
| • | Patriarch Sieghard of Beilstein invested with immediate comital rights | 3 April 1077 | ||||||||
| • | Territory secularised by Venice | 7 July 1420 | ||||||||
| • | Territory officially ceded to the Republic of Venice as an Imperial fief | 1433 | ||||||||
| • | Emperor Charles V renounces all Imperial feudal rights to the territory. | 1523 | ||||||||
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The Patria del Friuli (Latin: Patria Fori Iulii, Friulian: Patrie dal Friûl) was the territory under the temporal rule of the Patriarch of Aquileia and one of the ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1420, the Republic of Venice acquired it, but it continued to be ruled for some time under its own laws and customs.
The former Duchy of Friuli in the Italian Kingdom of the Lombards had been conquered by Charlemagne in 774 and incorporated as a march of the Carolingian Empire. When in 952 King Otto I of Germany invaded Italy, he added the Friulian territory to the March of Verona, ruled by the Dukes of Bavaria, from 976 by the Dukes of Carinthia. During the Investiture Controversy of 1077, King Henry IV of Germany deposed the Veronese margrave Duke Berthold II of Carinthia, as he had sided with antiking Rudolf of Rheinfelden. On 3 April 1077 at Pavia Henry, on his way back from the Walk to Canossa, vested Patriarch Sieghard of Beilstein with immediate comital rights in the Friulian lands of Verona, raising him to the status of a Prince-Bishop. The remaining margraviate passed with the Carinthian duchy to Henry's liensman Liutold of Eppenstein.
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