The thirteenth century, shows the development of a community economically and culturally elevated. was built in 1210 and signed by the Duomo "Doctissimo cosmos," the will of "Communitas" and in the same year witnessed the presence of a "Rector" freely elected by the citizens, whose appointment was approved by Innocent III. In 1252 is confirmed by Innocent IV Statutes of Municipal (whose compilation had already been cleared in 1229 and entrusted to the magistrates and citizens learned of the place). Behind these two events we can see a town flourished because of its demographic development evidenced by consumption of salt, the growth of commerce and crafts and the many social classes listed in that statute . E 'which dates from this period, presumably the construction of Court building which would subsequently be incorporated into the building Peretti Montalto.
The mid-fourteenth century was a crucial moment in which the city, taking advantage of the exile of the popes in Avignon, it became independent from the Papal States. In 1354 under the partial domain of Vico, when troops of Albornoz managed to recover the city of Viterbo, Civita Castellana remained in arms can ache the invitation of the papal legate, which required to submit. Cardinal Albornoz sent a punitive expedition in which the city held out for at least two years, it managed to surrender only after having poisoned the waters of the rivers nearby.
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