On January 12, 981 Emperor Ottone II confirmed the patriarch of Aquileia Rodoald possession of feudal "cortem que vocatur Maniacus. The manor was to be of considerable proportions and includes, besides the houses of lords, remember from 1195, also domus patriarchal, three towers and several walled. The Maniago, involved in many feudal struggles, suffered the injuries here Ezzelino III da Romano and Vecellone Camino in 1216 and still here, and assaulted by Henry Prampero Gualtierpertoldo Spilimbergo, managed to prevail over the besiegers. In 1337 the Patriarch of Saint Bertrand Geniès Maniago invested the castle, the fortifications and the village even as early as 1386 they lost their possessions because of unrest against the patriarch of Philip Alenon, a situation already covered in 1393 when the new patriarch John V Moravia reinstating these gentlemen in possession of the ancient feud. Destroyed by the disastrous earthquake of 1511, the fort was finally abandoned in the early seventeenth century.
