Rabodo
Rabodo | |
|---|---|
Conrad of Scheyern |
Rabodo (or Rapoto) was the
marquis of Tuscany
from 1116 until his death in battle in 1119.
A
by God's grace", using the same formula used by Matilda.[b]
He moved the Tuscan capital from Florence, where it had been since 1057,Conrad of Scheyern, another German, was in office by 1120.[1]
Notes
- ^ Ex largitione imperatoris marchio Tusciae.[1][4]
- ^ Rabodo Dei gratia si quid est.[4]
- ^ This is the origin of the epithet "al Tedesco" (i.e., the German), which was only dropped in the 20th century.
- ^ The later Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani confused the attack of 1119 with an earlier attack of 1113 and incorrectly called Rabodo "Robert the German". The Annales florentini state of the 1119 attacks: marchio Rempoctus defendebat (marquis Rempoctus defended [it]) and Monte Cascioli ignem consumpserunt (Monte Cascioli they consumed with fire).[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e Heywood, William (2010) [1921]. A History of Pisa: Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 96–97.
- ^ a b Wickham, Chris (2015). Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century. Princeton University Press. p. 88.
- S2CID 158328838.
- ^ a b c d Villari, Pasquale (1894). The Two First Centuries of Florentine History: The Republic and Parties at the Time of Dante. T. Fisher Unwin. pp. 102–07, 113.
- ^ Schevill, Ferdinand (1963). Medieval and Renaissance Florence, Volume 1: Medieval Florence. Harper and Row.
- ^ Dameron, George Williamson (1991). Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000–1320. Harvard University Press. pp. 70–72.