After the death of King Ludwig II, two of the most eminent personalities of the italic kingdom, Wicbod, bishop of Parma, and Ubaldus, fidelis of Charles the Fat, engaged in similar strategies in attempting to join the exarchal high aristocracy, represented by members of the genus ducum. This occurred in the period of relative political stability that the political activity of Charles the Fat introduced into the kingdom of Italy in the early eighties of the ninth century. They both gave their female relatives in marriage to a member of the ducal aristocracy of Ravenna. These two marriages involved massive movements of capital resources and therefore destabilized the socially uniform context of the Ravenna aristocracy. The children of these couples did not have an easy time in Romagna, and in the early decades of the tenth century they were ousted from the urban context. The fates of the two bloodlines, which had had similar origins, followed radically different paths at the beginning of the tenth century. These divergent paths were determined by the choices made by the two female protagonists of those marriages, Vulgunda and Engelrada, regarding their own assets.

Tra Ravenna e regno : collaborazione e conflitti fra aristocrazie diverse / Lazzari, Tiziana. - STAMPA. - Collection Haut Moyen Âge - 31:(2017), pp. 6-31.

Tra Ravenna e regno : collaborazione e conflitti fra aristocrazie diverse

tiziana lazzari
2017

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After the death of King Ludwig II, two of the most eminent personalities of the italic kingdom, Wicbod, bishop of Parma, and Ubaldus, fidelis of Charles the Fat, engaged in similar strategies in attempting to join the exarchal high aristocracy, represented by members of the genus ducum. This occurred in the period of relative political stability that the political activity of Charles the Fat introduced into the kingdom of Italy in the early eighties of the ninth century. They both gave their female relatives in marriage to a member of the ducal aristocracy of Ravenna. These two marriages involved massive movements of capital resources and therefore destabilized the socially uniform context of the Ravenna aristocracy. The children of these couples did not have an easy time in Romagna, and in the early decades of the tenth century they were ousted from the urban context. The fates of the two bloodlines, which had had similar origins, followed radically different paths at the beginning of the tenth century. These divergent paths were determined by the choices made by the two female protagonists of those marriages, Vulgunda and Engelrada, regarding their own assets.
2017
Coopétition. Rivaliser, coopérer dans les sociétés du haut Moyen Âge (500-1100)
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Tra Ravenna e regno : collaborazione e conflitti fra aristocrazie diverse / Lazzari, Tiziana. - STAMPA. - Collection Haut Moyen Âge - 31:(2017), pp. 6-31.
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