Auriate

The Italian county Auriate lay on the eastern slopes of the Western Alps to Cuneo and Saluzzo and existed until the mid-10th century. Beginning of the century is witnessed by Count Rodulf Auriate who died after 902 and the county the Frankish knights Roger left, he had until then used as a proxy to succeed. Rogers son Arduin Glaber Sales 940/945 the Saracens from the Susa Valley, and was then to those closest to the Margrave Berengar of Ivrea, who set out to acquire 945 the Italian crown, which he then succeeded in the year 950.

At the beginning of the following year joined Berengar the reorganization of the military structures south of the Po from which his predecessor Hugo had I started with the aim to be better prepared against Saracen raids from the sea. He made ​​three new territories: the Margraviate East Ligurian Riviera, the Margraviate of Western Liguria and the Margraviate of Turin, which he filled with the faithful of the first hour as the Marquis, which also Arduin Glaber belonged.

The Margraviate of Turin covered the area between Turin in the north, the Western Alps and Albenga and Ventimiglia in the south, and thus in particular also the county Auriate that disappears by this step from history.

The extensive land that the family Arduin, the Arduine had in Auriate was three generations later, the heritage of the Countess Berta, who married the Marquis Teto, a begütertes also in the area member of the ruling family of Montferrat in Aleramiden. The combined ownership of the couple then became the nucleus of the Margraviate of Saluzzo.