ANGELBERGA (ENGELBERGA, INGELBERGA). -
Empress, d. in 890. Of Lombard stock and of a
family long established in Italy, a woman of
extraordinary energy and ambition, she exercised notable influence over Louis II, whom she married in October 851. She accompanied her husband on the campaign against the
Saracens in southern Italy, and, like him, was
held prisoner for forty days by Adelchis, prince
of Benevento. She founded in Piacenza the monastery of
St. Sixtus, where she withdrew after the death of her husband,
which occurred in 875. Later she became abbess of the monastery
of St. Julia in Brescia. Highly cultured and intelligent,
she also wrote some letters to Pope John VIII.

Bibliography5 works

BIBL.: L. A. Muratori, Antiquitates Italicus Medii Acci, I, Milano 1738, p. 50; Hincmar, Annal. Berthian., in MGH, Scriptores, I, pp. 455-515, passim; S. Sismondi, Histoire des Français, III, Parigi 1821, pp. 183-84; A. Kleinclausz, L'Empire Carolingien. Ses origines et ses transformations, Parigi 1902, pp. 382-83; L. Salvatorelli, L'Italia medioevale. Dalle invasioni barbariche agli inizi del sec. XI, Milano s. d., passim.

Emma Santovino

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Angelberga (Engelberga, Ingelberga)

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