Guy I (died 860) was the
Duke of Spoleto from 842. He was the son of
Lambert I of Nantes
Lambert I (died 836) was the Count of Nantes and Prefect of the Breton March between 818 and 831 and Duke of Spoleto between 834 and 836. Lambert succeeded his father Guy.
Lambert participated in an expedition undertaken by Louis the Pious in 81 ...
and Adelaide of Lombardy, the eldest daughter of
Pepin of Italy. He travelled with his father in 834 in the entourage of
Lothair I. He was given the abbey of
Mettlach
Mettlach (Saarlandic dialect:Mettlich) is a municipality in the district Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany, situated on the river Saar, approximately northwest of Merzig, and south of Trier. The headquarters of Villeroy & Boch are in Mettlach ...
in
Lotharingia
Lotharingia ( la, regnum Lotharii regnum Lothariense Lotharingia; french: Lotharingie; german: Reich des Lothar Lotharingien Mittelreich; nl, Lotharingen) was a short-lived medieval successor kingdom of the Carolingian Empire. As a more durable ...
in 840, when the Emperor
Louis the Pious
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died.
Guy married Ida (Itta, Ita or Itana), daughter of
. Their sons were
Lambert I and
Guy III. In 843, he interfered in the Beneventan civil war on the side of his brother-in-law
Siconulf
Siconulf (also ''Siconolf'', ''Sikenolf'', ''Siconolfo'', or ''Siconulfus'') was the first prince of Salerno, the brother of Sicard, prince of Benevento (832–839), who was assassinated by Radelchis. In response to Sicard's murder, the people o ...
. He acted as arbiter several times for high fees, but only Lothair's successor, the Emperor
Louis II, could end the strife. In 846, he alone succeeded in driving the
Saracens out of
Latium
Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
Definition
Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil ( Old Latium) on w ...
after their
sack of Saint Peter's Basilica in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
.
In 858, he supported
Adhemar of Salerno Adhemar (or Ademar) ( la, Ademarius) was the son of Prince Peter of Salerno. He succeeded his father, an usurper, in 853.
Adhemar's rule was unpopular. The counts of Capua whittled away at his princely authority and territory. In 858, he had to c ...
against the pretended
Count of Capua
This is a list of the rulers of the Principality of Capua.
Lombard rulers of Capua Gastalds and counts
The gastalds (or counts) of Capua were vassals of the princes of Benevento until the early 840s, when Gastald Landulf began to clamour for the ...
,
Lando I. By his intervention he secured the
Liri Valley
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The Valle del Liri (''Liri valley'') is a valley and a geographical region of southern Lazio and part of the larger Latin Valley, located in the province of Frosinone, crossed by the Liri river (as well as the Va ...
, with
Sora and
Arpino
Arpino (Southern Latian dialect: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Frosinone, in the Latin Valley, region of Lazio in central Italy, about 100 km SE of Rome. Its Roman name was Arpinum. The town produced two consuls of the R ...
taken from the count's brother Landenulf of
Teano.
Notes
References
Sources
*
*
*Llewellyn, Peter. ''Rome in the Dark Ages''. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. .
*di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso. ''Guido'', in ''Dizionario biografico degli italiani'', 61, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana, 2003, p. 352-354.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guy 01 Of Spoleto
860 deaths
9th-century dukes of Spoleto
Guideschi dynasty
Year of birth unknown