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Personal data Albert II Azzo 

• He was born in the year 997.
• Title: Graaf, van Ligurië
• He died in the year 1096, he was 99 years old.
• He is buried in Badia Polesine, Veneto, Italië.
• A child of Alberto I Azzo and Adela Nn

Household of Albert II Azzo

(1) He is married to Kunigunde der Welfen.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Welf IV der Welfen  1025-1101 

(2) He is married to Gersende van Maine.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Hugo V van Este  ± 1062-± 1097

Notes about Albert II Azzo

ALBERTO AZZO [II], son of ALBERTO Azzo [I] Conte di Luni & his wife --- ([996]-Vangadizza monastery 1097, after 13 Apr). "Oldericus Maginfredus marchio f. quondam…Maginfredi marchionis et Berta comitissa jugales filia q. Obberti marchionis" sold property "in comitatu Parmensi, Placensiensi, Ticinensi, Tortonensi, Vercellensi, Aquensi, Astensi, Eporediensi, Torinensi, Oradiensi, Albensi, Avigenensi, Aberganensi, Vigintimiliensi" to "Sigifredo presbitero filio q. Adelgisi", with "notitia propinquorum parentum suorum, id est Adalberti marchionis germani sui et Alberti infantis nepotis sui", by charter dated 6 Jun 1021[2]. He succeeded his father as Conte di Luni. Marchese. The Annalista Saxo calls him "Azoni marchioni de Langobardia de castris Calun et Estin"[3]. "Albertus qui Azo marchio vocatur…professus…lege Langobardorum" donated property "in comitatu Patavensis" to the monastery of Santa Maria in Vangadizza "in comitato Vicentino adque in comitato Patavino" to "Gaxdia puella…filia et germana nostra" by charter dated 26 Sep 1075[4]. A charter dated 31 May 1079 records an agreement between the church of Verona and "marchionem Azonem et Ugonem et Fulconem germanos filios eiusdem marchionis Azonis"[5]. The Genealogia Welforum calls him "marchio Etius cum curte Elisina"[6]. "Fulco filius Alberti marchionis qui Azo marchio" swore allegiance to "Ugo germano meo" by charter dated 6 Apr 1095, the text of which refers to their father as still living[7]. "Albertus marchio qui Azo marchio…[et] filius…Ugo" donated property to the monastery of Santa Maria in Vangadizza by charter dated 13 Apr 1097[8]. The Chronicon of Bernold records the death in 1097 of "Azzo marchio de Longobardia, pater Welfonis ducis de Baiowaria" commenting that he was "iam maior centenario"[9].

m firstly ([1035]) KUNIGUNDE von Altdorf, daughter of WELF [II] Graf von Altdorf & his wife Irmtrud im Moselgau [Wigeriche] ([1020]-31 Mar before 1055, bur Vangadizza monastery). The Genealogia Welforum names "Cunizam" as daughter of Welf and his wife Imiza, specifying that she married "marchio Etius cum curte Elisina"[10]. The Annalista Saxo names "Cunizam" daughter of Welf, and her husband "Azoni marchioni de Langobardia de castris Calun et Estin"[11].

m secondly ([1049/51]) as her second husband, GERSENDE du Maine, repudiated wife of THIBAUT [III] Comte de Blois, daughter of HERIBERT [I] "Euigilans Canis/Eveille-chien" Comte du Maine & his wife ---([1025/35]-). The Actus pontificum Cenomannis records that "Atho marchisius" left Maine in the hands of "Gaufridi de Meduana", also naming "uxor eiusdem marchisii Garcendis…filia Herberti Cenomannorum…comitis…Evigila Canem" and specifying that she had married firstly "Theobaldo duci Campanie" and that he had repudiated her[12]. Orderic Vitalis records that "Hugo filius Herberti" and his wife “Bertam ipsius relictam, Tedbaldi Blesensium comitis sororem” had “filium...Herbertum et tres filias”, of whom one married “Azsoni marchiso Liguriæ” (which would be difficult to sustain chronologically and confuses the children of Hugues [IV] Comte du Maine with his sisters)[13].

Mistress (1): MATILDA, sister of GUGLIELMO Vescovo, from Padua and Vedova.

Alberto Azzo [II] & his first wife had one child:
WELF [IV] ([1035/40]-Paphos Cyprus 9 Nov 1101

Alberto Azzo [II] & his second wife had two children:
UGO d'Este (-1131).
FOLCO [I] d'Este (-15 Dec 1128)

Bronnen:

[2] Carutti, D. (1889) Regesta comitum Sabaudiæ, marchionum in Italia (Turin) ("Regesta comitum Sabaudiæ"), L, p. 17.

[3] Annalista Saxo 1126.

[4] Gloria, A. (ed.) (1877) Codice Diplomatico Padovano al secolo sesto a tutto l´undecimo (Venice) ("Codice Diplomatico Padovano"), 223, p. 252.

[5] Codice Diplomatico Padovano, 256, p. 280.

[6] Genealogia Welforum 8, MGH SS XIII, p. 734.

[7] Codice Diplomatico Padovano, 314, p. 338.

[8] Codice Diplomatico Padovano, 321, p. 344.

[9] Bernoldi Chronicon 1097, MGH SS V, p. 465.

[10] Genealogia Welforum 8, MGH SS XIII, p. 734.

[11] Annalista Saxo 1126.

[12] Busson, G. and Ledru, A. (eds.) (1902) Actus Pontificum Cenomannis in urbe degentium (Le Mans) ("Actus pontificum Cenomannis"), 377.

[13] Le Prévost, A. (1845) Orderici Vitalis Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ (Paris) ("Orderic Vitalis (Prévost)"), Vol. II, Liber IV, XII, p. 252.

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