Adelasia of Torres
| Adelasia | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Enzo of Hohenstaufen, King of Sardinia | |||||
| |||||
| House | Lacon-Gunale | ||||
| Father | Marianus II, King of Torres | ||||
| Mother | Agnes of Cagliari | ||||
Adelasia (1207–1259), was the
Judge of Gallura
from 1238.
Life
She was the eldest child of Marianus II of Logudoro by Agnes of Massa, daughter of William I of Cagliari, and successor of her brother, Barisone III.
By a pact signed between her father, who had interests in
Lamberto Visconti in November 1218, Adelasia first married the heir of Gallura, Lamberto's son Ubaldo II in 1219. Pope Honorius III
, enemy of the Pisans, immediately sent his chaplain Bartolomeo to annul the marriage, but he failed and the pact between Pisa and Logudoro stood.
Ubaldo inherited the
Pisan archdiocese
.
By Ubaldo's will, drawn up in January 1237 at Silki, Gallura was to be inherited by his cousin
Enzo to Adelasia and create a Kingdom of Sardinia. Enzo arrived from Cremona in October the same year as Ubaldo's death and the two were married and titled King and Queen of Sardinia. Enzo left for the peninsula in July 1239 and never returned, being taken prisoner by the Guelphs
, an imprisonment which was to prove lifelong. In 1245 or 1246, the marriage was annulled.
After this date, Adelasia, saddened and tired of active government, retired to her castle of
Giudicato of Arborea succeeded in taking some land. Sassari expelled its Pisan governor with the support of the Doria, refortified its defences, and adopted a republican model of government in alliance with Genoa, which sent an annual podestà
.
Sources
- Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1857). "Wikidata Q115299077.
- Costa, Enrico, Adelasia di Torres, Ilisso, Nuoro 2008.
- Ferrabino, Aldo (ed). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: I Aaron – Albertucci. Rome, 1960.
- Sperle, Christian (2001). König Enzo von Sardinien und Friedrich von Antiochia. Zwei illegitime Söhne Kaiser Friedrichs II. und ihre Rolle in der Verwaltung des Regnum Italiae. ISBN 3-631-37457-7.
- Onnis, Omar; Mureddu, Manuelle (2019). Illustres. Vita, morte e miracoli di quaranta personalità sarde (in Italian). Sestu: Domus de Janas. OCLC 1124656644.
See also
- Enzio of Sardinia
- Giudicato of Logudoro
- Marianus II of Logudoro
