Patria del Friuli
Patriarchal State of Aquileia | |||||||||||
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| 1077–1433 | |||||||||||
Patria del Friuli / the Patriarchal State of Aquileia (red) at the time of the Hohenstaufen Emperors (circa 1250). The pale highlighted area shows the March of Verona. | |||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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| Official languages | Latin | ||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||
| Government | Ecclesiastical principality | ||||||||||
| Patriarch | |||||||||||
• 1068–1077 | Sigehard | ||||||||||
• 1412–1420 | Louis of Teck | ||||||||||
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| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
| 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), also known as the Patriarchal State of Aquileia (Italian: Stato patriarcale di Aquileia), was the territory under the temporal (political) rule of the Patriarch of Aquileia, and one of the ecclesiastical states within the Holy Roman Empire. It was created in the second half of the 11th century, and existed up to the first half of the 15th century. As in the case of other ecclesiastical states, its territory was not identical with jurisdictional borders of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. In 1420, the Republic of Venice acquired and consequently annexed the territory, thus depriving the Patriarch of Aquileia of his temporal powers. Under Venetian rule, the region continued to be administered for some time under its own laws and customs.