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____ Boniface II
Birth: ABT 785
Death: ABT 838
Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boniface_II,_Margrave_of_Tuscany
Boniface II (died circa 838) was the count and duke of Lucca (from 5 October 823)
and first margrave of Tuscany from about 828. He succeeded his father Boniface I,
Margrave of Tuscany in Lucca — in what was an early example of hereditary
succession — and extended his power over the region. During his tenure, the bishops
of Lucca gradually lost control of the municipal government, which fell to the counts.
Since 770, the counts of Lucca had been charged with the coastal defence of
Tuscany and Corsica. In February 825, at Marengo, the Emperor Lothair I emanated a
Capitula de expeditione corsicana for the defence of the island. In 828, Boniface
received the titles of prefectus and tutela over the island from Lothair and the
legateship of the island from the bishop of Luni. In July and August 828, he led a small
fleet in search of Saracen pirates. Finding none at sea, the fleet landed at Sardinia
and there decided to attack Africa. They assaulted the Saracen coast between Utica
and Carthage with success. The fleet then returned to Corsica.
In 833, Boniface backed Louis the Pious against his son Lothair, who promptly
dispossessed him and put Aganus in his place. In 834, he joined with Ratald, Bishop
of Verona, and Pepin, Count of Vermandois, to free the Empress Judith of Bavaria from
her convent-prison. They escorted her back to Louis at Aachen. Boniface spent 836–
838 in Germany at court.
Eventually he retired to hereditary lands in southern France. He was invited to
participate in the trial of Bernard of Septimania, but died before he could. His son
Adalbert regained the Tuscan march later.
Parents
----- Boniface I (ABT 750 - 823)
----- ----- ()
Siblings
____ Boniface II (ABT 785 - ABT 838)
Marriage To ----- ----- ()
m.
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Children by ----- -----
____ Adalbert I (ABT 820 - 886)
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