Sigifred of Lucca (also Sigefred, Siegfried) (died after 940) was a Lombard nobleman and the progenitor of the House of Canossa.
Donizo, the 12th-century biographer of the Canossa dynasty, refers to Sigifred as coming from ‘the county of Lucca’ (de comitatu Lucensis).[1] Little is known about Sigifred. Although he was from Lucca, he was probably not count of Lucca. He moved from Tuscany to Emilia-Romagna c.924-930 when Hugh of Italy endowed him with lands around Parma.[2] Sigifred also gained control of lands around Brescia.
With his wife, whose identity is not known, Sigifred had at least three sons:[3]
- Adalbert Atto of Canossa
- Sigifred, progenitor of the Baratti dynasty
- Gerard, progenitor of the Guiberti dynasty
References
- Donizo of Canossa, Vita Mathildis in Donizonis Vita Mathildis, ed. L. Bethmann, MGH SS 12 (Hannover, 1856), pp. 348-409, accessible online at: Monumenta Germaniae Historica (in Latin)
- M. G. Bertolini, 'Note di genealogia e storia Canossiana,' in: I ceti dirigenti in Toscana nell'età precomunale, Atti del 1º Convegno di studi sulla storia dei ceti dirigenti in Toscana - Firenze - 2 dicembre 1978, (Pisa, 1981), pp. 110-149.
- M.G. Bertolini, 'Adalberto Azzo di Canossa,' in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 1 (1960)
See also
- Republic of Venice, were ended the Silk Road
- Charlemagne, who banned usury to the Christian.
- Florence, finance center of Europe Medieval Bankers with Venetian gold until 1440 Black Death.
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