This work presents the last four decades of the independence of the Aquileian
Patriarchate. From 1381, a crisis period began for the patriarchate, which it was unable to
shake off until 1420, when the Venetians conquered this territory. For various reasons, all of
the six patriarchs (Philip of Alençon, John of Moravia, Antonio Caetani, Antonio Pancera,
Antonio da Ponte and Louis of Teck) could not resolve internal disputes, primarily those
between Udine and Cividale. This allowed foreign forces to increase their own influence over
Friuli. The Venetians, who continuously spread inward after the war for Chioggia, were they
prevailed in the end. Not even the support of Sigismund of Luxembourg, king of Hungary and
emperor of Germany, who fought with the Venetian Republic between 1411-1413, was
enough. In April 1418, after a five-year truce, the Venetian army invaded Friuli. Gradually,
until October 1420, it had been completely conquered by the Venetians who maintained their
rule over this territory until the end of the Venetian Republic in 1797.
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