AGELTRUDE. - Queen and empress, daughter of Adelchis, prince of Benevento, she married Guy, duke of Spoleto and Camerino. An ambitious and unscrupulous woman, she seconded and incited her husband in his designs of grandeur and dominion. Having become queen and empress after the proclamation of Guy first as king of Italy and then as emperor in 891, left a widow three years later, she continued her work as an energetic counsellor with her son Lambert. Following the arrival of Arnulf, she withdrew with all the Lombard forces to Spoleto, determined to face the siege and the fighting. After the emperor's sudden departure, she consented, though without taking part in it, to the horrible trial of Pope Formosus, held in Rome. When Lambert died in 898, she retired to Spoleto, accepting the gifts and favors granted by Berengar I.
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Ageltrude
Also known as: Italian: Ageltruda
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), coll. 443–444.
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Matthiae, Guglielmo. “Ageltrude.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 443–444. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/ageltrude.
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Matthiae, Guglielmo. “Ageltrude.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 443–444. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ageltrude.
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@incollection{ec1_ageltrude,
author = {Matthiae, Guglielmo},
title = {Ageltrude},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {443--444},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ageltrude}
}
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