Berengario I, emperor

Duke-margrave of Friuli

King of Italy

Emperor

Events

Date of Birth: about 840 - 850.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Baldwin gives an estimate of 840 - 845. Arnaldi prefers a date of about 850.

Date of Death: 7 April 924.

Place of Death: Verona.

The date and place are given by Arnaldi, by Kaminsky, and by Baldwin. Berengario was assassinated at the entrance of the church of S. Pietro.

Relationships

Father: Eberhard, duke of Friuli.

This relationship is given by Arnaldi, by Kaminsky, by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 18), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Gisela, daughter of emperor Louis the Pious.

This relationship is given by Arnaldi, by Kaminsky, by Hlawitschka, by Bouchard (p. 18), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Bertila, daughter of Suppone II, duke of Spoleto. Married about 880 - 890.

This relationship is given by Arnaldi, by Hlawitschka, and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Anna. Married before December 915.

This relationship is given by Arnaldi, by Hlawitschka, and by Baldwin.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Baldwin.)

Gisela married Adalberto, margrave of Ivrea.

Bertha, abbess of San Salvatore, Brescia.

References

Arnaldi, Girolamo. “Berengario I, duca-marchese del Friuli, re d'Italia, imperatore” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 9 (1967).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Berengario I” in The Henry Project.

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Vom Frankenreich zur Formierung der europäishen Staaten- und Völkergemeinschaft 840-1046: Ein Studienbuch. (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1986).

Kaminsky, H.H. "Berengar I." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 1 (Stuttgart: 1980).