Lupus (Spoleto)

Lupus (also Lupo ; † 752 ) was from 745 to 752 Dux of the Lombard Duchy of Spoleto .

Life

Lupus succeeded Dux Transamund II in June / July 745 under unknown circumstances , although a peaceful change is rather unlikely.

Lupus recognized King Ratchi's suzerainty in 746 ; now royal missi (officials) spoke law in the previously independent Spoleto. Duke Lupo visited Ratchis' court in Pavia. Lupus made gifts to the Farfa Monastery (today: Abbazia di Farfa) and founded the St. George Monastery near Rieti in 751 for Longobard and Frankish nuns. With his wife Ermelinda he is said to have donated the Church of S. Maria in Organo.

When Lupus died in Spoleto in 752, he was probably followed briefly by Dux Unnolf . Then King Aistulf did not award the ducat again, but had it administered as a crown property.

literature

• Wilfried Menghin : The Lombards . Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1985.
• Jörg Jarnut : History of the Longobards , Stuttgart 1982. ISBN 3-17-007515-2 . ( Storia dei Longobardi , Torino 1995).

Web links

• Ludo Moritz Hartmann : History of Italy in the Middle Ages Vol. 2.2 . Gotha 1903, p. 147ff (partly overhauled)
• Dukes and Marchesi of Spoleto (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hartmann, Geschichte Italiens im Mittelalter Vol. 2.2, Gotha 1903, p. 155
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hartmann, Geschichte Italiens im Mittelalter Vol. 2.2, Gotha 1903, S. 147f
3. ↑ Chronicon Farfense, Vol. I, p. 148
4. ↑ Regesto di Farfa II No. 22, page 32
5. ↑ regesta-imperii.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Hartmann, Geschichte Italiens im Mittelalter Vol. 2.2, Gotha 1903, S. 150f

predecessor	Office	successor
Transamund II.	Duke of Spoleto 745–752	Unnolf