Obertenghi

The Obertenghi (also called Otbertiner ) were a family of northern Italian nobility. Your eponymous ancestor is Oberto I, Count of Milan and Luni, the first Margrave of East Ligurian Riviera, the " marca Januensis " or Mark of Genoa.

Oberto I was already 945 to the allies of the Margrave Berengar II of Ivrea, than this (13 March 945 in Pavia) set out to take over power in northern Italy. With the success of Berengar then the rise of the family was linked. When at the beginning of the year 951 Berengar II, the reorganization of the Italian feudal south of the Po graduated, his predecessor, King Hugo had begun I., and thereby appointed three Margrave for the newly formed territories, received Oberto East Ligurian Riviera ( " Marca Obertenga " ), the also Genoa, Luni, Tortona, Bobbio, Parma and Piacenza, Modena and Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Ascoli Piceno included. Indirectly also included the rule over Corsica and Sardinia to do so. Obertos change to the side of the Emperor Otto I also secured the family's position on the fall of Berengar. Oberto was 961 or 962, confirmed in the office or received them back.

The support of the Obertenghi, especially Hugo ( Ugo ) and Alberto Azzos I.. , After the death of Emperor Otto III for Arduin of Ivrea led after the defeat against Emperor Henry II to a setback: they were dispossessed and banished, but already pardoned four years later. Although she did not win its dominant position in northern Italy again but they managed through alliances and marriages with other large families in the country to secure their status.

The main line died out in the 11th century, however, result in, among other families Este, Pallavicini, Fieschi, Malaspina and Della Torre, Visconti of Gallura, Parodi, Pinelli, Lupi, Massa, Della Berardenga, Cavalcabò, Adalbertina, etc., their pedigrees Oberto back to I..

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Origin Obertos I.

In the scientific discussion was carried forward ( Muratori ), Otbert I came from the Margrave of Tuscany from the house Boniface and thus of a Bavarian nobleman who had come with Charlemagne to Italy. The opposite occurs Hlawitschka, who pointed out that Oberto yourself someone named, after the Lombard law live according to its origin: " About the descendants Otberts I, with a donation of goods in Volpedo to the monastery of Cluny itself Otbertus marchio et comes Palatio, " qui professo sum ​​ex natione mea legem vivere langobardum ", denoted, is mainly to compare the above-mentioned study Gabottos in which to Muratori and others is also proved that, between the house Otberts I and the Margrave of Tuscany Bavarian parentage were no direct relationships. "