Struggles for Power in the Kingdom of Italy: The Hucpoldings, c. 850-c. 1100

Cover
Table of Contents
Prefatory Note
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
	Documentary Evidence: Dispersal of Properties, Archival Geography
	Narrative Sources
	Bibliography
Part I: Kinship and Political Relations
	1. The Hucpoldings’ Involvement in the Political Struggles of the Kingdom of Italy (847–945)
		Hucpold, Count Palatine of Louis II
		Faction and Endeavour: Hubald I
		The Aristocratic Career of Boniface dux et marchio between Rudolf II and Hugh of Arles
		Bibliography
	2.	Family Patterns and Political Affirmation (945–1012)
		The Duchy of Spoleto and Tuscany
		Eastern Emilia and the Exarchate of Ravenna
		The March of Tuscany
		Bibliography
	3.	The Local Basis of Power in a Wide Political Network (1012–1116)
		Hugh II and His Lineage in Bologna and Ferrara
		The Ties that Bind: Boniface of Canossa and Kinship Networks across the Apennines
		The Counts of Romena-Panico
		Bibliography
Part II: Properties and Patronage
	4.	The Exarchate
		Land Possession and Relations in the Ninth Century
		The Troubled Years, c.960–c.1000
		Persistence in the comitatus Faentinus and the 1034 Pact
		Bibliography
	5.	The March of Tuscany
		The Family Group Estates in the Ninth Century
		Marchisal Fisc and Monastic Foundations
		Centres of Power, Patronage Networks
		Bibliography
	6. Ruling on the Border: Landed Possessions from the Po Valley to the Apennines in Bononia’s Diocese
		Acquisitions, Exchanges, Organization of Lands in the Tenth Century
		Landed Wealth and Hegemony
		Lands, People and Castles (Tenth–Twelfth Centuries)
		Estate Management: Between Territorial Consolidation and Dispersal
		Bibliography
Part III: Power, Relationships, Memory
	7.	Kinship, Self-awareness and Memory
		Onomastic Choices
		The lex Ribuaria profession
		The Role of Monastic Foundations: Family Memory, Politics and Identity
		Kinship Representations between Perceptions and Self-awareness
		Evolution and Hierarchy of Kinship Cohesion
		Bibliography
	8.	Features and Practices of Power: From Officials to Lords
		Firsts Steps at Court: Offices and Responsibilities in the Kingdom of Italy
		The Marchisal Achievement and the Gaining of Ecclesiastical Offices
		Dinastizzazione of the Title of comes and the Development of Seigneurial Rule in a Border Region
		Bibliography
	9.	Discontinuity between Public Powers and Private Seigneurial Rule
		Bibliography
Genealogical Tables
	Bibliography
Bibliography
	Archival Primary Sources
	Printed Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index
Maps and Tables
	Maps
		Map 1. Monasteries cited
		Map 2. Places related to the iudiciaria Mutinensis (c.890–c.950)
		Map 3. Places mentioned in Romagna and in the Apennines south of Faenza
		Map 4. Places mentioned in the march of Tuscia
		Map 5. Places mentioned in the plain north of Bologna and in the mountains to the south
	Tables
		Table 1. The Hucpoldings’ charters: a general overview (847–1130)
		Table 2. The Hucpoldings’ charters in the territory of Bologna: lay people and religious houses (c.900–1130)
	Genealogical Tables
		Table G1. The Hucpoldings and the elites of the kingdom of Italy (c.850–c.930)
		Table G2. Boniface I’s descendants (c.900–c.1050)
		Table G3. Kinship ties among the marquises of Tuscia (c.950–c.1050): Hucpolding women and the legitimation of the Adalbertings
		Table G4. Marquis Almericus II’s ancestry (c.850–c.950)
		Table G5. Kinship ties in Romagna (c.900–c.1050)
		Table G6. Hucpolding lineages in the Bolognese (c.1030–c.1130)
		Table G7. The descendants of Count Adimarus (c.990–c.1130)