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Genoa-Byzantine Trade Treaty
Byzantine Emperor Manuel I granted Genoa commercial privileges comparable to Venice's to counterbalance Venetian trade monopoly in the Eastern Medite…
Timeline
- 1153Constantinople · Byzantine EmpireManuel I, dissatisfied with Venice's monopoly of imperial trade under the 1082 golden bull, decided to introduce Genoa as a competitor to disperse the power of the Italian maritime republics.
- 1153Constantinople · Byzantine EmpireThe empire granted Genoese merchants privileges such as tariff exemptions, free commerce, and the establishment of a merchant quarter in the capital via a golden bull, while the Genoese formally acknowledged the emperor's supreme sovereignty.
Sources
- Genoa's Response to Byzantium, 1155-1204: Commercial Expansion and Factionalism in a Medieval City — David Abulafia (1988)
- The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143–1180 — Paul Magdalino (1993)