Adelperga, duchess of Benevento

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Adelperga (born c. 740 – died after 787) was a Lombard noblewoman, Duchess of Benevento by marriage to Arechis II of Benevento. She acted as regent of Benevento for her son Grimoald in 787-788. She was the third of four daughters of Desiderius, King of the Lombards, and his wife Ansa. Her elder sister Desiderata was a wife of Charlemagne.

MedLands

ADALPERGA (-after Feb 788). The Chronicon Salernitanum names Adalperga, daughter of Desiderius, as wife of "Arichis Beneventanus dux"[595]. She is referred to as the wife of Duke Arichis in the Versus de Annis by Paulus Diaconus, the initial letters of each verse of the poem reading "Adelperga pia"[596]. Paul the Deacon dedicated his history of the Roman Empire to her[597]. Pope Hadrian I records "Adalberga relicta Arigihs…duas filias suas secum" in a letter to Charles I King of the Franks dated to [777/78][598].

m ( [758] ) ARICHIS II Duke of Benevento, son of --- ([736]-Salerno 26 Aug 787, bur Salerno Cathedral).

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Origins

Wikipedia retrieved 16 April 2023

Desiderius married Ansa (or Ansia) and, as well as a son, had four daughters:

1. Anselperga (or Anselberga), abbess of San Salvatore monastery of Brescia
2. Adelperga (or Adelberga), married Arechis II of Benevento
3. Liutperga (also Liutpirc or Liutberga), married Tassilo III of Bavaria
4. Desiderata married Charlemagne in 770 and was repudiated (a medieval form of divorce) in 771.
5. Adelchis (or Adalgis), patrician in Constantinople

Gerberga is not proved as a daughter.

References

1. ADELPERGA in Biographical Dictionary of Italians - Volume 1 (1960) < English translation > She was a woman who revealed firmness of character and political shrewdness in the events following her husband's death (August 787); she managed to effectively maintain the independence of the Benevento principality, saving it from the aims of Charlemagne, who allowed Grimoaldo, son of the dead prince, who had been held hostage by him at her court, to regain possession of the principality.