Anselperga, abbess of San Salvatore e Santa Giulia

Biography

Anselperga (living 13 Oct 772), became the first[1] or second[2] Abbess of < San Salvatore e Santa Giulia > ... before her parents -- Desiderius and Ansa -- took the throne in 757/8.

Anselperga was richly endowed with land. She received donations from her father, mother, brother Adelchis, and her maternal relatives. During her tenure San Salvatore was removed by her father from the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Aquileia and given to the Archbishop of Milan. Nevertheless, on 13 October 772, Anselperga received a privilege from Patriarch Siguald.

The date of Anselperga's death is unrecorded, but she was replaced by Radoara as early as 781.

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. Garver, V.L. (2012). Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World. Cornell University Press. < Google Books >
2. Porter, A.K. (1902). Lombard Architecture, (Vol.2, pp.213-217). Yale University Press. < Google Books >
3. Wickham, C. (1998). "Aristocratic power in eighth-century Lombard Italy." pp.173. Walter A. Goffart & Alexander C. Murray, Ed. After Rome's Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History, (pp.173). University of Toronto Press. < Google Books >.
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselperga