Hugh of Arles was born sometime before 887, the son of Theobald of Arles and of Bertha, illegitimate daughter of Lothar II of Lotharingia. Elected King of Italy in 924, he relinquished his interests in Provence in 933 and died in 947. Events Emperor Uda ascends to the throne of Japan Births Deaths September 18 - Pietro I Candiano, Doge of Venice (killed in battle) Emperor Koko of Japan Categories: 887 ... Lothair (825 - August 8, 869), was the second son of the emperor Lothair I. On his fathers death in 855, he received for his kingdom a district lying west of the Rhine, between the North Sea and the Jura mountains, which was called Regnum Lotharii and early in the... Lotharingia was a kingdom in western Europe, named after Lothair, King of Lotharingia (reigned 855-869), who received it in 855 from his father, Lothair I (795-855), Holy Roman Emperor. ... King of Italy is a title adopted by many rulers after the fall of the Roman Empire. ... Events King Athelstan of England succeeds to the throne. ... Events Births Deaths Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, Toltec ruler Categories: 947 ...

At some date after his father's death, his mother remarried, to Adalbert II of Tuscany. However, Hugh first came to prominence in his native Provence as effective regent at Arles for king Louis the Blind, in the years after Louis's ultimately disastrously unsuccessful attempt between 900 and 905 to add the throne of Italy to that of Provence and subsequent blinding by Berengar of Friuli. Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ... Provence is a former Roman province and is now a region of southeastern France, located on the Mediterranean Sea adjacent to Frances border with Italy. ... Map of western Mediterranean, showing location of Arles Arles (Arle in Provençal) is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, of which it is a sous-préfecture, in the former province of Provence. ... Louis the Blind (c. ... Events Persian scientist, Rhazes, distinguished smallpox from measles in the course of his writings. ... Alternate meaning: Area code 905 Events Births Deaths Categories: 905 ... Berengar of Friuli - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

About 922, a sizable faction of Italian nobles revolted against the by-now emperor Berengar and elected Rudolf II, king of Burgundy as king of Italy. This started a civil war, which resulted in Berengar's assassination in 924. Rather than accept Rudolf, Berengar's partisans now elected Hugh as King of Italy. Events Births Deaths March 26 - Al-Hallaj, Sufi writer and teacher Categories: 922 ... Rudolf II (died July 11, 937) King of Upper Burgundy (912–937), King of Lower Burgundy (Provence) (933–937), King of Italy (effective, 922–926 – claim abandoned 933). ... King of Italy is a title adopted by many rulers after the fall of the Roman Empire. ...

Hugh's reign started successfully enough. By 926, Rudolf had been ejected from Italy, although he would not abandon his claims for several years yet. He somewhat improved the central administration of the kingdom, achieving rather more (though not total) success against the Magyar raids that had been plaguing Italy for several decade. He induced the Italian nobility to recognise his son Lothar as their next king. A young page educated at Hugh's court at the traditional Lombard capital, Pavia, grew up to be Liutprand, bishop of Cremona, the liveliest chronicler of the 10th century; his loyalty to the memory of Hugh may have helped fuel some of his partisan bitterness in chronicling Hugh's heirs. Events Bohai is conquered by the Khitan Births Emperor Murakami of Japan Deaths Categories: 926 ... Árpád Feszty and assistants vast (over 8000 m2) canvas, painted to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of the Magyar conquest of Hungary, now displayed at Ópusztaszer National Memorial Site in Hungary Magyars are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. ... Church San Michele in Pavia Pavia (the ancient Ticinum) (population 71,000) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. ... Liutprand (Liudprand, Luitprand) (c. ...

However, Hugh's attempt to strengthen his power further by a second marriage failed disastrously. His bride was Marozia, senatrix and effective ruler of Rome and widow first of Alberic I of Spoleto and then of Hugh's own half-brother Guido of Tuscany. This last fact, though, meant that the marriage was illegal under canon law, on grounds of consanguinity— a matter that Hugh tried to circumvent by disowning and eliminating the descendants of his mother's second marriage and giving Tuscany to a relative on his father's side of the family. This in turn, however, alarmed Alberic, Marozia's teenage son or step-son by her first marriage, who, appealing to Roman distrust of the foreign troops Hugh had brought with him, launched a coup d'état during the wedding festivities. Hugh managed to flee, but Marozia was imprisoned until her death a few years later. Marozia also known as Mariuccia, given the unprecedented titles senatrix (senatoress) and patricia of Rome by Pope John X, was born about 890, and died, imprisoned by her son Alberic II, duke of Spoleto, between 932 and 937. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... In Western culture, canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. ... Consanguinity, literally meaning common blood, describes a family relationship between two individuals. ... Alberic II was ruler of Rome from 932 to 954, after deposing his mother Marozia and stepfather, King Hugh of Italy. ... A coup détat (pronounced /ku de ta/), or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ...

Hugh's power in Italy was damaged but not destroyed by these events. He continued to organise the fight against the Magyars and the Andalusian pirates based at Fraxinet in Provence. Active, if sometimes dubious, diplomacy paid off. He concluded a treaty with Rudolf in 933 by which Rudolf abandoned his claims to Italy in return for being handed Provence over the heads of Louis the Blind's heirs and the marriage of Rudolf's daughter Adelaide to Hugh's son Lothar. Friendly relations were maintained with the Byzantine Empire and, in 942, Hugh even came to terms with Alberic, who married one of Hugh's daughters. Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given the Iberian Peninsula by its Muslim conquerors; it refers to both the Caliphate proper and the general period of Muslim rule (711–1492). ... In about 889 a ship carrying twenty Andalusian adventurers anchored in the Gulf of St. ... Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931- 999) was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy, King of Italy. ... The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. ... Events Kaminarimon, the eight-pillared gate to Japans Kinryuzan Sensouji Temple is erected. ...

Within the kingdom, Hugh intensified his existing habit of giving any available offices or lands to relations, including his numerous legitimate and illegitimate progeny, and a small circle of old and trusted friends. The effect this had on Italian nobles who saw this as threatening themselves eventually resulted, in 945, in a rebellion led by Berengar of Ivrea. Hugh managed to come to terms, by which he nominally kept the crown but returned to Provence, leaving Lothar as king in Italy but with all real power now in Berengar's hands. Events Saint Dunstan abbot at Glastonbury Edmund I of England conquers Strathclyde Howell the Good convenes a conference at Whitland, which reforms the laws of Wales Births Abbo of Fleury, French monk Deaths Igor of Kiev Categories: 945 ... Berengar of Ivrea (?-966), sometimes also referred to as Berengar II of Italy was marquess of Ivrea, and later King of Italy. ...

Rudolf II (died July 11, 937) King of Upper Burgundy ( 912–937), King of Lower Burgundy (Provence) ( 933–937), King of Italy (effective, 922– 926 – claim abandoned 933). ... King of Italy is a title adopted by many rulers after the fall of the Roman Empire. ... Lothar II of Arles was King of Italy from 947 to 950. ...

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• Pierre Riché, The Carolingians: a family who forged Europe (trans. Michael Idomir Allen, 1993, University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1342-4)
• Peter Llewellyn, Rome in the dark ages 1971, reprinted 1993, Constable. ISBN 0-09-472150-5)