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Adelaide, after four months’ imprisonment, manages to …
Years: 951 - 951
Adelaide, after four months’ imprisonment, manages to escape with the help of Count Adalbert Atto of Canossa.
Besieged by Berengar II in Canossa, she sends an emissary across the Alps seeking Otto’s protection and marriage.
Otto, widowed since 946, knows a marriage to Adelaide will allow him to fulfill his ambition of ruling Italy and, ultimately, claiming the imperial crown as Charlemagne’s true heir.
Knowing of Adelaide’s great beauty and immense wealth, the thirty-eight-year-old Otto accepts the nineteen-year-old queen's marriage proposal and prepares for an expedition into Italy.
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- Adalbert Atto of Canossa
- Adalbert of Italy
- Adelaide of Italy
- Berengar II of Italy
- Hugh the Great
- Liudolf
- Lothair II of Italy
- Lothair of France
- Louis IV, King of Western Francia
- Marozia
- Otto I
Groups
- Italy, Carolingian Kingdom of
- Francia Occidentalis (West Francia, or France), Kingdom of
- Francia Orientalis (East Francia), Kingdom of
- Ivrea, March of
- Arles, Kingdom of, or Second Kingdom of Burgundy
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Years: 951 - 951
Locations
People
- Adalbert Atto of Canossa
- Adalbert of Italy
- Adelaide of Italy
- Berengar II of Italy
- Hugh the Great
- Liudolf
- Lothair II of Italy
- Lothair of France
- Louis IV, King of Western Francia
- Marozia
- Otto I
Groups
- Italy, Carolingian Kingdom of
- Francia Occidentalis (West Francia, or France), Kingdom of
- Francia Orientalis (East Francia), Kingdom of
- Ivrea, March of
- Arles, Kingdom of, or Second Kingdom of Burgundy
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions