Adelheid: The Queen of Italy Becomes Queen of Germany
Queen Adelheid of Italy was being besieged by Margrave Berengar of Ivrea at the Castle of Canossa. She had fled there from her prison at Garda Castle. Count Alberto Atto of Canossa had sent couriers...
View ArticleEmpress Adelheid
Since the Langobards had conquered most of Italy, the accolade of Emperor of Rome had become linked directly to the Iron Crown of the Langobard kings. Usually, kings who had a secure enough grip on...
View ArticleThe Dowager Empress Adelheid
With her coronation as Empress in 962, Adelheid had received the accolade as the most powerful woman in Christendom. Born a Princess in Burgundy, she went on to become a fugitive Queen in Italy and...
View ArticleAdelheid: The Regency of Empresses
Having climbed the ladder from Princess in Burgundy, through Queen of Italy, Queen of Germany, to finally Empress, one would think that being made regent in Italy by her son would mean the final...
View ArticleThe Machinations of Count Hugo of Arles (Part Ii)
Hugo had managed to be crowned King of Italy. When his wife Alda died, he felt ready to make a bid for the imperial crown. To this end he first imprisoned and blended his half-brother Margrave...
View ArticleThe Good Queen Berta in History
The domain of King Rudolf II of Upper Burgundy extended in the East along the Rhine into the modern Canton of Argovia in Switzerland. Rudolf intended to add Zürich and its surrounding county as...
View ArticleThe Legend of Good Queen Berta
The new convent in Payerne where Queen Berta was buried was richly endowed by Empress Adelheid, King Conrad of Burgundy, and Duke Rudolf of Burgundy. The local people revered her as a saint,...
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