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Guy of Spoleto (died 12 December 894), sometimes known by the Italian version of his name, ''Guido'', or by the German version, ''Wido'', was the Margrave of Camerino from 880 (as Guy I or Guy II) and then Duke of Spoleto and Camerino (as Guy III) from 883. He was crowned King of Italy in 889 and Holy Roman Emperor in 891. He died in 894 while fighting for control of the Italian peninsula. Guy was married to Ageltrude, daughter of Adelchis of Benevento, who bore him a son named Lambert. ==Early life== Guy was the second son of Guy I of Spoleto〔Mann III, pg. 303〕 and Itta, daughter of Sico of Benevento. Guy I was the son of Lambert I of Nantes and his second wife, Adelaide of Lombardy, who was a daughter of Charlemagne's second eldest son, Pepin of Italy. In 842, the former Duchy of Spoleto, which had been donated to the Papacy by Charlemagne, was resurrected by the Franks to be held against Byzantine catapans to the south, as a Frankish border territory by a dependent margrave. Consequently, Guy’s family had been important players in Italian politics since the early ninth century.〔Mann III, pg. 303〕 Although in 876 Guy and his elder brother, Lambert, Duke of Spoleto, had been commissioned by Charles the Bald to accompany Pope John VIII to Naples to break up the alliances that many of the southern Lombard states had made with the Saracens,〔Mann III, pg. 281〕 the family’s interests were generally hostile to the papacy, a policy that Guy initially followed.〔Mann III, pg. 318〕 With Lambert’s death in 880, he bequeathed to Guy the march of Camerino, and in 882 Guy supported his nephew’s (Guy II of Spoleto) invasion of the Papal States.〔Mann III, pg. 318〕 This brought him into conflict with the Emperor Charles the Fat, and in 882, at an assembly at Verona, the emperor dispossessed him of his fiefs, together with a significant number of other important, but minor, Italian nobles.〔Mann III, pg. 355〕 Rising up in rebellion, Guy allied himself with the neighbouring Saracens and began acquiring further territory. At this point, at a diet at Ravenna, the emperor declared him guilty of high treason, and Berengar of Friuli was commanded to strip him of his fief by force.〔Mann III, pg. 356〕 In 883, Guy inherited his nephew's title of Spoleto and reunited the dukedom, henceforth as the "Duchy of Spoleto and Camerino" bearing the title of ''dux et marchio'', and by the end of 884, Emperor Charles III was forced to make peace with Guy, where he formally recovered his titles.〔Mann III, pg. 356〕 Then in 885, he fought his occasional allies, the Saracens of the Garigliano. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy III of Spoleto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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