Bonifacius (noble family)

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Bonifacius is the (subsequent) family name for an Italian noble family of the early Middle Ages .

history

The Bonifacier were the descendants of a German nobleman who came to Italy with Charlemagne . In 812 he received Lucca with the title of Count and Duke, including the cities of Pisa , Volterra , Pistoia and Luni . His descendants in the male line were appointed Margraves of Tuscien in 844/45 and held the property until 931, when the last member of the family was deposed and blinded by his half-brother Hugo von Vienne from the bosonid family .

Tribe list

  1. Bonifacius (I.), † before October 5, 823, came with Charlemagne from Bavaria , was probably Count and Duke of Lucca in 812 ; ⚭ NN
    1. Bereharius, fought against the Saracens in 828
    2. Boniface II. , † after 838, probably Count and Duke of Lucca in 823/835, tutor of Corsica in 828/30 , expelled by Emperor Lothar I in 835 , 838 missus regius in Septimania ; ⚭ NN
      1. Berardus, probably attested in 855 with his brother Adalbert in Rome, 876/888, Count
      2. Adalbertus (I.) , † after May 27, 884, 844 / 45–884 / 89 Count and Duke of Lucca, Margrave of Tuscien with Florence and Fiesole , probably 846 tutor of Corsica, conquered in 878 together with Lambert I, Duke of Spoleto ( Guidonen ), Rome, excommunicated , then appointed Defensor Patrimonii Sancti Petri , founded the monastery of San Caprasio in Aulla in 884 ; ⚭ I Anonsuara; ⚭ II before 863 Countess Rothilde, attested in 875, † after May 27, 884, daughter of Duke Wido I of Spoleto (Guidonen)
        1. (II) Adalbert (us) (II.) Der Reiche , † 10./19. September 915, testified before May 27, 884, 884/27. May 889–925 Count and Duke of Lucca and Margrave of Tuscany, buried in Lucca Cathedral ; ⚭ 890/898 Berta von Lothringen, † March 8, 925, 906 "Queen of the Franks", 915 regent, daughter of King Lothar II ( Carolingian ), widow of Theotbald, Count of Arles ( Bosonids ), buried in Santa Maria foris portam in Lucca
          1. Guido (Wido) , † 928/929, 915–928 / 929 Count and Duke of Lucca and Margrave of Tuscany, 916 – probably 920 captured in Mantua ; ⚭ 924/925 Marozia , senatrix et patricia Romanorum , † 932/937 in captivity, daughter of Theophylactus ( Tusculan ), widow of Alberic I , Margrave of Spoleto, married in third marriage in 932 Hugo von Vienne , King of Italy ( Bosonids )
            1. Theodora (Berta)
            2. ? 1 or 2 siblings
          2. Lambert , † after 938, 928 / 929–931 Count and Duke of Lucca and Margrave of Tuszien, in 931 blinded by his half-brother Hugo von Vienne ( bosonids ), who then gave Tuscia to his brother Boso
          3. Ermengard, † February 29 after 932; ⚭ around 915 Adalbert I the Rich , Margrave of Ivrea , † probably 923 ( House of Burgundy-Ivrea )
        2. (II) Bonifacius, attested in 884, probably after 884 Count, 894 at the court of King Arnulf in Pavia
        3. (II) NN (probably Reginsinda) nun in Santa Giulia in Brescia
    3. Richilda, † after October 5, 823, abbess of SS Benedetto e Scholastica in Lucca

The Obertenghi as descendants

In the scientific discussion it was stated (Muratori) that the progenitor of the Obertenghi (Otbertiner) Otbert I descended from the Margraves of Tuszien from the house of Bonifacius and thus from a Bavarian nobleman who had come to Italy with Charlemagne. The occurs Hlawitschka contrary, who pointed out that Oberto yourself someone named that its origin according to Longobard lived right: "Over the descendants Otberts I., who himself Otbertus marchio at a donation of goods in Volpedo at the monastery of Cluny to et comes palatio, "qui professo sum ex natione mea legem vivere langobardum", is to be compared above all with the aforementioned study by Gabotto, in which it is also proven against Muratori and others that there was more Bavarianism between the house of Otbert I and the margraves of Tuscia There were no direct relatives of origin. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see also The Pedigree of Obert I (Marquis) of Italy.
  2. ^ Hlawitschka: Franconia, Alemanni, Bavaria and Burgundy in Northern Italy. 1960, pp. 244-245.

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