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Birth:          ABT  930 
Death:          13 Feb  988 
Burial:         Canossa

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalbert_Atto_of_Canossa
Adalbert Atto (or Adalberto Azzo) (died 13 February 988) was the first Count of 
Canossa and founder of that noble house which eventually was to play a determinant 
rôle in the political settling of Italy and the Investiture Controversy in the eleventh and 
twelfth centuries.

Adalbert first appears in sources as a son of Sigifred of Lucca. He was originally a 
vassal of King Lothair II and a miles of Adelard, Bishop of Reggio. He rose to 
prominence rapidly by sheltering Queen Adelaide in his castle at Canossa after she 
fled from the castle of Garda (951), where Berengar II had imprisoned her.

In 958, he was made a count sine re, by Adelaide. He did not appear again as a count 
in documents until December 961, during Berengar's ascendancy. On 20 April 962, he 
appeared as count of Reggio and Modena (comes Regensis sive Mutinensis). These 
appointments were probably a further product of his support for Adelaide and her new 
husband, Otto I of Germany. With the queen, he negotiated a division of power with 
the bishop of Reggio whereby the bishop was confirmed as comes civitatis, count of 
the city, and Adalbert as comes comitatus, count of the county, where the county was 
said to begin three or four miles outside the city walls. He appears with a similar title, 
comes comitatus Mantuanensis, in Mantua in a letter of the abbess of Santa Giulia 
dated 10 June 977.

In 984, Adalbert appears as a margrave. When Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, was 
acclaimed as king that year, he united Parma, Piacenza, Bergamo, Cremona, and 
Brescia to Adalbert's territories. However, Henry's usurpation of the throne was brief.

Adalbert Atto built a monastery at Canossa in 961, dedicated to S. Apollonio in 971. 
He also built a monastery at Brescello. He and his family were all buried in S. 
Apollonio.

Adalbert married the Supponid Hildegard (Ildegarda) and had three sons: Geoffrey; 
Tedald, who became respectively bishop (970) and count (1001) of Brescia; and 
Rudolph, who predeceased him. He had a daughter Prangarda who married Manfred I 
of Susa.

Parents
OF LUCCA Siegfried ("Langobard") (ABT  900 - AFT  958)
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Siblings
DI CANOSSA Adalbert (Otto) (Ottone) II (ABT  930 - 13 Feb  988)

Marriage To ----- Hildegard ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- Hildegard 
DI CANOSSA Prangarda (ABT  960 - )

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