Adalberto Azzo di Canossa

Count of Reggio and Modena

Count of Mantova

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 13 February, probably in 988.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Hlawitschka (p. 108). Wolf gives 13 February 988.

Place of Burial: the church of San Apollonio at Canossa.

The place is given by Bertolini.

Relationships

Father: Sigifredo. From the county of Lucca.

This relationship is given by Bertolini and by Violante.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Ildegarda (died 11 January, about 982).

This relationship is given by Bertolini, by Wolf, by Violante, and by Hlawitschka (p. 108).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Rodolfo (died 21 July, 973 or 974).

Tedaldo (died 8 May, about 1012), count of Reggio, married Giulia.

Prangarda married Manfredo I, margrave of Turin.

Goffredo (died after about 998).

References

Bertolini, Margherita Giuliana. ”Adalberto Azzo di Canossa” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 1 (1960).

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Franken, Alemannen, Bayern und Burgunder in Oberitalien (774-962) (Eberhard Albert: Freiburg im Breisgau, 1960).

Violante, Cinzio. “Quelques caractéristiques des structures familiales en Lombardie, Émilie et Toscane aux XI^e et XII^e siècles” in Famille et parenté dans l’occident médiéval. École Françase de Rome, 1977.

Wolf, Armin. Ahnen deutscher Könige und Königinnen: Alternativen zu dem Werk von Eduard Hlawitschka. 2010. Selbstverlag des Herold, Berlin.