Guy (or Guido) (940 – 25 June 965) was the
margrave of Ivrea
The March of Ivrea was a large frontier county (march) in the northwest of the medieval Italian kingdom from the late 9th to the early 11th century. Its capital was Ivrea in present-day Piedmont, and it was held by a Burgundian family of margra ...
from 950 to his death. In 950, his father, King
Berengar II of Italy
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, appointed him to rule in the familial margraviate. His mother was
Willa of Tuscany, his elder brother was
Adalbert II, co-king with their father, and their younger brother was
Conrad
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.
In 959, Guy sheltered the exiled
doge of Venice
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,
Pietro III Candiano
Pietro III Candiano was the Doge of Venice from 942 until 959. He was the son of Pietro II Candiano.
Life
In 948 he led a fleet of 33 galleys to punish the Dalmatian pirates, the Narentines, for repeatedly raiding against Venetian shipping in t ...
. Guy brought Pietro to his father the king and then the two of them led an expedition against
Theobald II, Duke of Spoleto. He captured both
Spoleto
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History
Sp ...
and
Camerino
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.
In 962, when Adalbert returned from exile in
Corsica to try to reclaim his throne. Guy and Conrad joined with him in besieging
Pavia
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, the Italian capital. The brothers then retreated into the fortresses around Lakes
Como
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Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps has m ...
and
Garda. His lands were confiscated by the
Emperor Otto I
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and given to
Guy, Bishop of Modena. In 965, fighting an army of
Swabians under
Duke Burchard III, Guy was killed, in a battle on the
Po coming to his brother's rescue. Adalbert escaped to
France
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.
Margraves of Ivrea
Anscarids
10th-century Italian nobility
940 births
965 deaths
Sons of kings
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