Lanfranc I of Bergamo

Lanfranc I of Bergamo (c.895/900950/954) was the son of Giselbert I of Bergamo and Rotruda of Pavia.[1] He was a member of the dynasty known to historians as the Giselbertiners (or Giselbertini).

Lanfranc I is first documented as a royal vassal (vassus regis) in 935.

By 945 he was entitled count (probably of Bergamo) in a diploma issued by Hugh of Italy. Later that year Lanfranc became count palatine of Bergamo through the intervention of Berengar II of Italy.[2]

He died sometime between 950 and 954.[3]

With his wife, whose name is not known, Lanfranc I had several children, including:

Notes

  1. Hlawitschka, Franken, p. 216
  2. Jarnut, Bergamo, p. 32
  3. Jarnut, Bergamo, p. 33.

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