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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 939.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden op 13 februari 988, hij was toen 49 jaar oud.Bron 2
• Een kind van Sigifred
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Kind(eren):

1. Prangarda van Canossa   

Notities over Adalbert Atto I I van Canossa

Adalbert Atto or Adalberto Azzo (died 13 February 988) was the first Count of Canossa and founder of that noble house which eventually was to play a determinant rôle in the political settling of Italy and the Investiture Controversy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Adalbert first appears in sources as a son of Sigifred, who is called de comitatu Lucensi, signifying that he hailed from Lucca. He was originally a vassal of King Lothair II and a miles of Adelard, Bishop of Reggio. He rose to prominence rapidly by sheltering Queen Adelaide in his castle at Canossa after she fled from the castle of Garda (951), where Berengar II had imprisoned her.
In 958, he was made a count sine re, by Adelaide. He did not appear again as a count in documents until December 961, during Berengar's ascendancy. On 20 April 962, he appeared as count of Reggio and Modena (comes Regensis sive Mutinensis). These appointments were probably a further product of his support for Adelaide and her new husband, Otto I of Germany. With the queen, he negotiated a division of power with the bishop of Reggio whereby the bishop was confirmed as comes civitatis, count of the city, and Adalbert as comes comitatus, count of the county, where the county was said to begin three or four miles outside the city walls. He appears with a similar title, comes comitatus Mantuanensis, in Mantua in a letter of the abbess of Santa Giulia dated 10 June 977.
In 984, Adalbert appears as a margrave. When Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, was acclaimed as king that year, he united Parma, Piacenza, Bergamo, Cremona, and Brescia to Adalbert's territories. However, Henry's usurpation of the throne was brief.
Adalbert Atto built a monastery at Canossa in 961, dedicated to S. Apollonio in 971. He also built a monastery at Brescello. He and his family were all buried in S. Apollonio.
Adalbert married the Supponid Hildegard (Ildegarda) and had three sons: Geoffrey and Tedald, who became respectively bishop (970) and count (1001) of Brescia, and Rudolph, who predeceased him. He had a daughter Prangarda who married Manfred I of Susa.
(bron: en.wikipedia.org

Adalbert Atto II bouwde Castello Canossa (in Noord-Italië). De ruïnes van dit kasteel zijn nog te bezichtigen.
(bron: it.wikipedia.org)
Aan dit kasteel ontleent het gezegde "een gang naar Canossa maken" zijn betekenis. In 1077 deed de Duitse keizer Hendrik IV drie dagen achtereen boete op zijn blote voeten in de sneeuw voor het Kasteel van Canossa om paus Gregorius VII ertoe te bewegen zijn excommunicatie op te heffen. Deze was het voorgaande jaar over de keizer uitgesproken naar aanleiding van de Investituurstrijd. Daaraan wordt gerefereerd in de uitdrukking "een gang naar Canossa maken", wat betekent "diep door het stof gaan om vergeving te vragen", "men moet op zijn stappen terugkeren".
(bron: nl.wikipedia.org)

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