 - Abt 977
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| Name |
Arduin the Bald Glabrio |
| Suffix |
Count of Auriate |
| Gender |
Male |
| Acceded |
Abt 935 |
| Count of Auriate |
| Acceded |
Abt 950 |
| Margrave of Turin |
| Name |
Glaber |
| Death |
Abt 977 |
| Notes |
- http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal12474
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduin_Glaber
«b»Arduin Glaber«/b» («u»Italian «/u»: «i»Arduino Glabrio«/i», «i»Glabrione«/i», or «i»il Glabro«/i», meaning "the Bald"; died c. 977) was the «u»Count of Auriate «/u» from c. 935 and «u»Margrave of Turin «/u» from c. 950. He placed his family, the «u»Arduinici «/u», on a firm foundation and established the march of Turin through conquests and royal concessions. The «u»«i»Chronicon Novaliciense «/u»«/i» the chronicle of the abbey of «u»Novalesa «/u», is the primary source for his life
Arduin was the eldest son of Roger, Count of Auriate, a «u»Frankish «/u» nobleman who immigrated to Italy in the early tenth century. Auriate comprised the region bounded by the «u»Alps «/u», the «u»Po River«/u», and the «u»Stura >«/u», today the regions of the «u»Saluzzese «/u» and «u»Cuneese «/u» Arduin succeeded his father sometime around 935.
Count Arduin («i»Ardoino comes«/i») is first documented on 13 April 945, when he sat in judgement at a conference («u»«i»placitum «/u»«/i») of count Lanfranc at «u»Pavia «/u» in the presence of «u»King Lothair II «/u». It was probably earlier, between 940 and 942, that he had acquired «u»Turin «/u» and the «u»Susa Valley «/u», bring Novalesa back under Christian control«u»]«/u» In 941 «u»King Hugh «/u» exiled «u»Berengar of Ivrea «/u» and abolished the «u»March of Ivrea «/u». Since Berengar's family, the «u»Anscarids «/u», had thitherto held Turin, it is probably that Hugh bestowed it on Arduin at this time. By the spring of 942 Berengar had arrived at the court of «u»Otto I of Germany «/u».
Berengar returned on Hugh's death, he dominated the younger Lothair II and his mother «u»Adelaide «/u». He appears as «i»summus consiliarius«/i» (highest counsellor) in March\endash April 945 and «i»consors regni«/i» (royal consort) in June 948. Arduin moved closer to Berengar during this period and probably benefited from Berengar's coronation on 15 December 950. On 13 November 950 he was given the administration of the abbey of Novalesa, legally by Lothair, but probably through Berengar. At that time Turin was Arduin's principal residence. Though he is not recorded with the title of «i»marchio«/i» (margrave) until 20 June 967, it was probably during the reorganisation of the marches on Berengar's succession that he received the title and the «i»marca Arduinica«/i». The march consisted of the counties of Auriate, Turin, «u»Asti «/u», «u»Albenga«/u», and probably «u»Bredula «/u», «u»Alba «/u», and «u»Ventimiglia «/u»
The early twelfth-century «i»Vita Mathildis«/i», biography of «u»Matilda of Canossa «/u», by «u»Domnizo «/u» places Arduin at the siege of «u»Canossa «/u» by Berengar in 951, after Adelaide, the former queen mother, had sought the protection of «u»Adalbert Atto of Canossa «/u». This story is probably false, since Arduin was cultivating a marital alliance with Adalbert Atto, whose daughter Prangarda eventually married his son and successor, «u»Manfred I«/u»
From an early date Arduin was certainly occupied with the «u»Saracens «/u» who had occupied the «u»Susa Valley «/u» and established a base at «u»Fraxinetum «/u» in neighbouring «u»Provence «/u». He may have expelled them from the valley in 940\endash 41. To this he probably added Albenga, Alba, and Ventimiglia by conquest. He definitely took part in the wars of «u»William I «/u» and «u»Rotbold II of Provence «/u» against the Saracens of Fraxinetum. According to «u»Liutprand of Cremona «/u» in his «i»Antapodosis«/i», in 972 or 973 Arduin and Rotbold led the successful assault on Fraxinetum itself. William meanwhile attacked the abductors of «u»Abbot Maieul of Cluny «/u» According to a later comital document of 1041, he took the cities of «u»Tenda «/u», «u»Briga «/u» from them and granted them concessions. Arduin was last recorded alive on 4 April 976. Despite the fact that he repatriated their land from the Saracens, the monks of Novalesa\emdash who had fled Saracen incursions in 906 and were still in Turin as late as 929\emdash accused him of disrespecting their rights: «i»Ardoinus vir potens ... nobis tulit [vallem Segusinam] tantum ... erat plenus viciis ... superbia tumidus ... in adquirendis rebus alienis avaricie faucibus succensus«/i».
Arduin married a woman named «i»Vmille«/i» in the «i»Necrologio Sanctæ Andreæ Taurinensis«/i», probably Emilia or Immula. They had two daughters: Alsinda, who married «u»Giselbert II of Bergamo «/u», and Richilda, who married «u»Conrad of Ivrea «/u» Arduin was succeeded by his eldest son Manfred. He had two younger sons named Arduin and Otto.
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| Person ID |
I48847 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
19 Jun 2013 |
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| Sources |
- [S36] Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England(B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk), Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).
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