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- Title
KORENINE PIRANSKE DRUŽINE PETROGNA/PETRONIO (1257-1350).
- Authors
MIHELIČ, Darja
- Abstract
The paper presents the Petrogna family (from the 16th century onwards: Petronio) of Piran up to the mid-14th century. The first mention of a representative of the Petrogna dates to before the middle of the 13th century. Members of this family enjoyed public trust and regularly appeared as witnesses in business and legal events, while also acting as arbiters (iudex albiter) in disputes among the local population. The range of roles they performed in everyday business life between the last decades of the 13th century and the mid-14th century is most diverse. In promissory notes they appear alternatively as makers and holders, they purchased grain and linen on account and sometimes paid their debts in oil. Some traded in wine, selling it on account or acting as creditors or proprietors of taverns. They forged trade partnerships related to wine exports and imports of cereal and cheese. They demonstrated true entrepreneurial spirit in obtaining the communal right to bake bread for sale, the right to fish in leasable communal waters, and the right to a levy on the retail sale of wine, offsetting the sum paid to the town for the acquisition of these rights at the annual auction by leasing them to direct operators - bakers, fishermen and tavern keepers. The family owned numerous properties, including houses, cottages and gardens throughout Piran, and extensive agricultural real estate with vineyards, olive groves, grain fields, a meadow, and fishing grounds, which secured their wealth. In fact, the income from the agricultural holdings, the cattle and the fishing grounds constituted the majority of the family's budget. While some of its members owned taverns and mills, the examined records from the earlier period contain no mention of this family in relation to the proprietorship of salt works. The prominence of the Petrogna is further attested by their membership in the Grand Council of Piran and among the wise men (sapientes), i.e., in the twelve-member Council of Sages (the Minor Council), as well as by their holding positions of town officials, consuls, judges, vicedomini, notaries, and activities as town representatives and guarantors of loans taken out with foreign creditors. The Petrogna were a large family, with a total of 109 members, including 24 spouses, recorded up to the mid-14th century. The father of the family, Dominicus, had five immediate descendants, 10 third-generation descendants (grandchildren), 25 great-grandchildren in the fourth generation, and 44 great-great-grandchildren in the fifth. In terms of data sources, this study relies on the published documents Chartularium Piranense by Camillo De Franceschi for the periods up to 1300, and Chartularium Piranense by the same author for the 1301-1350 period, on the published Piran Statutes including their later amendments, on the corpus of published notary record books of the Piran unit of the Koper archives for the period between 1281 and 1320/1, on unpublished vicedomini codices and on unpublished Piran testaments of the Piran unit of the Koper ar chives for the periods up to the mid-14 th century.
- Subjects
HOTELKEEPERS; HOUSEHOLD budgets; PROMISSORY notes; AUDIOBOOKS; FAMILY relations; AGRICULTURE
- Publication
Acta Histriae, 2022, Vol 30, Issue 4, p757
- ISSN
1318-0185
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19233/AH.2022.32