Hubert, Duke of Spoleto
Hubert (or Humbert, Italian Uberto or Umberto; died c. 969) was the illegitimate son of King
Margrave of Camerino in 943.[1]
Hubert had one full brother named
Boso. In 942 he was made a count palatine. In 943 Sarlio, duke of Spoleto, was removed from office for killing the previous duke, Anscar, in battle during a quarrel that was possibly orchestrated by the king, who promptly placed his bastard son in the ducal office vacated by Sarlio.[2]
After his fellow margrave,
Otto I of Germany crossed the Alps and took over the kingdom. After Berengar's final defeat, Hubert was reconciled to Otto and allowed, once again, to keep Tuscany.[2]
Hubert married Willa, daughter of Duke
Hugh, who succeeded him as margrave of Tuscany; Waldrada, who married Pietro IV Candiano, doge of Venice; Bertha, who married Margrave Arduin of Ivrea, future king of Italy; and Willa, who married Count Tedald of Canossa.[3] She was the founder of the church of the Badia Fiorentina at Florence
.
Notes
- ^ a b Wickham 1981, pp. 178, 185.
- ^ a b Previté Orton 1922, pp. 157–58, 161–62, 165, 171.
- ^ a b Previté Orton 1917, p. 347.
Sources
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- Previté Orton, C. W. (1922). "Italy in the Tenth Century". In Tanner, J. R.; Gwatkin, H. W.; et al. (eds.). The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 3: Germany and the Western Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–87.
- Wickham, Chris (1981). Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400–1000. London: Macmillan.
- Wickham, Chris (1988). The Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Appennines in the Early Middle Ages. Oxford: Clarendon Press.