Berengario II, king of Italy

Margrave of Ivrea

King of Italy

Events

Date of Birth: probably 900.

Baldwin gives probably 900 or earlier. Delogu gives probably in 900 or, less probably, in 903. Kaminsky gives about 900.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 4 August 966.

Place of Death: Bamberg.

The date and place are given by Delogu, by Kaminsky, by Althoff (p. 369), and by Baldwin. Berengario died in prison.

Relationships

Father: Adalberto, margrave of Ivrea.

This relationship is given by Delogu, by Kaminsky, by Hlawitschka, and by Baldwin.

Mother: Gisela, daughter of Berengario I, king of Italy.

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

Spouse: Willa. Married 931.

This relationship is given by Delogu, by Kaminsky, 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.)

Adalberto (died possibly 975), joint king of Italy, married Gerberge, daughter of Lambert, count of Chalon.

Guido (died 25 June 965), margrave of Ivrea.

Conrad (died after 1001), margrave of Ivrea, of Spoleto, and of Comerino, married Ichilde, daughter of Arduin.

Gisela. A nun.

Gerberga married Aledram, marquis of Montferrat.

Rozala alias Susanna (died 1003) married (1) Arnulf II of Flanders; married (2) Robert II, king of France.

References

Althoff, Gerd. Adels- und Königsfamilien im Spiegel ihrer Memorialüberlieferung: Studieren zum Totengedenken der Billunger und Ottonen. (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1984).

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

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

Delogu, Paolo. “Berengario II, marchese d’Ivrea, re d’Italia” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 9 (1967).

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).