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Bertila OF SPOLETO (860?-915)
Name: | Bertila OF SPOLETO 1 |
Sex: | Female |
Father: | Suppo OF SPOLETO ( - ) |
Mother: | - |
Individual Events and Attributes
Birth | 0860 (app) | |
Occupation (1) | frm 0888 to 0900 (age 27-40) | Queen Consort of Italy |
Occupation (2) | 0915 (age 54-55) | Holy Roman Empress |
Death | Dec 0915 (age 54-55) |
Additional Information
Occupation (1) | and from 904 to 915 |
Marriage
Spouse | Berengarius I OF ITALY (850-924) | |
Children | Gisele OF FRUILI ( -910) | |
Marriage | 0899 (age 38-39) |
Individual Note
Bertila of Spoleto (c. 860 – December 915) was the wife of Berengar I of Italy, and by marriage Queen consort of Italy and Holy Roman Empress.
She was the daughter of Suppo II (c. 835 – c. 885), and of Bertha (dead by 921). Her paternal grandfather was Adelchis I of Spoleto, second son of Suppo I and father of Suppo II.
She married Berengar c. 880, becoming Queen of Italy in 888. However, her husband lost his throne in the following year to Guy of Spoleto. Berengar began to reassert his power in 896, after the fall of the Spoleto family, and the withdrawal of Emperor Arnulf from the peninsula; however, a defeat by a Magyar army, and the decision by the Italian nobles to appoint Louis of Provence as King of Italy, delayed the King and Queen's formal return to power until 905.
Bertila became Holy Roman Empress, after her husband was crowned Emperor in 915. She died in the December of the same year.
Bertila and Berengar had several children. Their daughter Gisela (882–910) married Adalbert I of Ivrea, who were the parents of Berengar II of Italy.
SOURCE:
FMG on Bertila of Spoleto2
Sources
1 | Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 142, 146-16. |
2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertila_of_Spoleto. |