Sigifred, of Lucca

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Sigifred of Lucca was a Lombard nobleman and the progenitor of the House of Canossa.

Donizo, the 12th-century biographer of the Canossa dynasty, refers to Sigifred as coming from ‘the county of Lucca’ (de comitatu Lucensis).[1] Little is known about Sigifred. Although he was from Lucca, he was probably not count of Lucca. He moved from Tuscany to Emilia-Romagna c.924-930 when Hugh of Italy endowed him with lands around Parma.[2] Sigifred also gained control of lands around Brescia.

With his wife, whose identity is not known, Sigifred had at least three sons:[3]

• Adalbert Atto of Canossa
• Sigifred, progenitor of the Baratti dynasty
• Gerard, progenitor of the Guiberti dynasty

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SIGIFREDO, son of --- . The Alberti Milioli Notarii Regini Liber de Temporibus records the arrival "in comitatu Lucensium" of "comes Sigifredus…cum tribus filiis…Sigifredus, Atto, Gerardus"[112]. A nobleman originating in the county of Lucca, he and his three sons installed themselves in Lombardy in [940] and built the castle of Canossa to the south-west of Reggio-Emilia overlooking the plain of Po[113].

m ---. The name of Sigefredo's wife has not yet been identified. Sigefredo & his wife had four children:

Arduin Glaber (Italian: Arduino Glabrio, Glabrione, or il Glabro, meaning "the Bald"; died c. 977) was the Count of Auriate from c. 935 and Margrave of Turin from c. 950. He placed his family, the Arduinici, on a firm foundation and established the march of Turin through conquests and royal concessions. The Chronicon Novaliciense, the chronicle of the abbey of Novalesa, is the primary source for his life.

Arduin was the eldest son of Roger, Count of Auriate, a Frankish nobleman who immigrated to Italy in the early tenth century.

Arduin married a woman named Vmille in the Necrologio Sanctæ Andreæ Taurinensis, probably Emilia or Immula. They had two daughters: Alsinda, who married Giselbert II of Bergamo, and Richilda, who married Conrad of Ivrea. Arduin was succeeded by his eldest son Manfred. He had two younger sons named Arduin and Otto.

References

  1. M. G. Bertolini, "Arduino", Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, VI (Rome: Società Grafica Romana, 1964), 49–52.

2. ^ Hanna E. Kassis, "Muslim Revival in Spain in the Fifth/Eleventh Century: Causes and Ramifications", Islam, 67 (1990), 79 n4. Manfred W. Wenner, "The Arab/Muslim Presence in Medieval Central Europe", International Journal of Middle East Studies, 12:1 (1980), 62, conflates Arduin of Turin with Arduin of Ivrea and places the capture of Fraxinetum in 975 (possibly 983), crediting it to William and Arduin, as opposed to Arduin and Rotbold.
3. ^ Kees Versteegh, "The Arab Presence in France and Switzerland in the 10th Century", Arabica, 37:3 (1990), 374 n57.