page_title: Campolongo al Torre
section_title: Middle Ages
hierarchical_section_title: Campolongo al Torre / History / Middle Ages
caption_attribution_description: English: The church in Campolongo al Torre, Friuli, Italy. Furlan: La glesie di Cjamplunc, te Basse. E fo consacrade tal 1736. Italiano: La chiesa di Campolongo.
context_page_description: Campolongo al Torre is a former comune of the Province of Udine in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 40 km northwest of Trieste and about 25 km southeast of Udine. Since 2009 it has been one of the two principal centres of Campolongo Tapogliano, a municipality formed by its merger with the former comune of Tapogliano.
context_section_description: The area was devastated in the fifth century by Germanic and other invasions by Alaric I and Attila.  The Roman inhabitants fled en masse to the lagoons, in Veneti and so laid the foundations of the city of Venice.  Then the Lombards wasted the countryside a second time in 590 but also establishing the Duchy of Friuli in the vicinity. Lombards ruled until 774, when Charlemagne conquered the Friuli and made it into a Frankish state under Eric of Friuli.
  Under Charlemagne the new Patriarchate of Aquileia was established. The patriarchate would become one of the largest dioceses. However, in the 10th century, the Friuli area would suffer under the raids of the Magyars, which would contribute to the decline of imperial control and increase the authority of the patriarchs. By the 11th century, the patriarch of Aquileia had grown strong enough to assert temporal sovereignty over Friuli and Aquileia and the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV gave the region to the patriarch as a feudal possession albeit constantly disputed by the territorial nobility. In the 14th century the Patriarchal State known as the Patria del Friuli reached its largest extension, stretching from the Piave river to the Julian Alps and northern Istria. The seat of the Patriarchate of Aquileia had been transferred first to Cividale and then in 1238 to Udine.
  It was during this time that the name of Campolongo is encountered for the first time in a note relating to March 1327: "Taxes collected by the Aquileia on the massari (farmers/settlers) of Carripa and Dapiferato, on the beheast of the Patriarch, as they are shown in the following note in Budrio, Orasaria, Campolongo and Visco, San Pietro d'Isonzo ...".  Thus in 1327 in Campolongo there were "massari" subject to the Patriarch of Aquileia. Then the documents are silent for a period.
  However, Friuli had to cope with the rising naval power of the Republic of Venice.  Since the transfer of the patriarchal residence to Udine, the Venetians and the Patriarchate engaged in political and physical warfare. From about 1400, Venice began to enlarge its influence by occupying Aquileia/Fruilian territory. By 1411 this turned into a war which was to mark the end of the Patriarchate. In December an Imperial army captured Udine; in 1419 the Venetians conquered Cividale; and, then Gemona, San Daniele, Venzone and Tolmezzo followed.  The former Patriarchate territories were secularized by Venice and under the Domini di Terraferma, the territories stretching from the Adriatic Sea to the Alps, were ceded to the Republic.
  Campolongo was thus ruled by the Republic of Venice in 1420. Campolongo was administered by its own degani and by Venetian "notaries". Friuli maintained a form of autonomy, by keeping its own Parliament ruling on the old territory of the Patriarchate; it also maintained its feudal nobility, which was able to keep their feudal rights over the land and its inhabitants for some time. Venice exploited the Friulian lands.  The harvesting of timber needed to build Venetian ships caused complete deforestation of the lower and central Friuli. Venice took also possession of collective farms belonging to rural Friulian communities, seriously impoverishing them.
   Beginning in 1516 the Habsburg Empire controlled eastern Friuli, while western and central Friuli was Venetian. Campolongo and Tapogliano then, wedged between the Austrian archducal territory, often felt the weight of foreign incursions, which Austria then instigated or nurtured, so much so that: "... the twentieth first of May 1616 some (archducal) forces, stopping outside Gradisca, sacked the villa of Campolongo, highly esteemed by the Venetians".
  In another circumstance Campolongo was put on fire and according to the chronicle of the town leaders (catapano), the priest was killed, the parsonage burned and grains and livestock were removed from the country.
caption: San Giorgio Martire, constructed between 1696 and 1736
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