The Duke of Spoleto was the ruler of Spoleto and most of central Italy outside the Papal States during the Early and High Middle Ages (c. 500 – 1300). The first dukes were appointed by the Lombard king, but they were independent in practice. The Carolingian conquerors of the Lombards continued to appoint dukes, as did their successors the Holy Roman Emperors. In the 12th century, the dukes of Spoleto were the most important imperial vassals in Italy. From 1198, the Duchy became under the sovereignty of the States of the Church.
They usually bore the title dux et marchio, "duke and margrave" as rulers of both Spoleto and Camerino.
Guy III ofSpoleto (German: Wido, Italian: Guido; died 12 December 894) was the Margrave of Camerino from 880 and then DukeofSpoleto and Camerino from...
of Gothelo I, Dukeof Upper and Lower Lorraine. By inheritance, Godfrey was Count of Verdun and he became Margrave of Antwerp as a vassal of the Duke...
Italy, where the DukeofSpoleto and the Dukeof Benevento were de facto sovereigns. In 575, when Cleph died, a period known as the Rule of the Dukes, in...
15 October 898) was the King of Italy from 891, Holy Roman Emperor, co-ruling with his father from 892, and DukeofSpoleto and Camerino (as Lambert II)...
margrave of Tuscany (1152–1162) and dukeofSpoleto (1152–1162), the third son of Henry IX, Dukeof Bavaria, and a member of the illustrious family of the...
brief period when the Imperial crown was awarded to the Widonid Dukes ofSpoleto. There is some contention as to whether the Holy Roman Empire dates as...
calendar) of the Julian calendar. Spring – King Lambert II travels to Rome with his mother, Queen Ageltrude and brother Guy IV, Lombard dukeofSpoleto, to...
Lambert I, dukeofSpoleto, dies while besieging the city of Capua. He is succeeded by his son Guy II. The oldest known mention is made of the city of Dortmund...
became kings of Italy and emperors. Guy IV ofSpoleto also became Dukeof Benevento. One member, Fulk the Venerable, was even archbishop of Rheims, assisting...
the Lombard DukeofSpoleto from between 896 and 900 until 920, 922, or thereabouts. He was also Margrave of Camerino, and the son-in-law of Theophylact...
Faroaldo II, DukeofSpoleto, in the places where the hermits Lazzaro and Giovanni are said to have lived. According to a legend, the DukeofSpoleto saw in...
given by his father the title of Count of the Lateran Palace. Later Pope Julius II award him with the title DukeofSpoleto. His son Lorenzo Cybo, married...
Duke ofSpoleto and Marchese of Tuscany, nephew of Welf II of Bavaria Welf VII, died 1167, DukeofSpoleto, son of Welf VI Welf was also the name of two...
890–891 Orso 891–895 To the Byzantines. 895–897 Guy (also DukeofSpoleto d.898) 897 Peter, Bishop of Benevento, as regent 897–900 Radelchis II (restored)...
789) was the DukeofSpoleto from 774 to 789. He married Regarde, daughter of Gotfrid. When Theodicius ofSpoleto died fighting at the Siege of Pavia in 774...
ruler of Burgundy. He is buried at Saint Marcellus of Chalons Church, in Chalon-sur-Saône (Eastern France). Ariulf becomes the second DukeofSpoleto (Central...
II il vescovo (also Bishop of Capua, uncle of prec., usurper, deposed) 866–871 Lambert I di Spoleto (also DukeofSpoleto, unrelated, imposed by Emperor...
Theodelap or Theudelapius was one of the sons of Faroald, the first DukeofSpoleto.[self-published source?] After the death of Ariulf in 601 or 602, Theodelap...
Petroia in Gubbio. Guidantonio da Montefeltro, lord of Urbino, Gubbio and Casteldurante, and DukeofSpoleto acknowledged Federico as his illegitimate son....
860) was the DukeofSpoleto from 842. He was the son of Lambert I of Nantes and Adelaide of Lombardy, the eldest daughter of Pepin of Italy. He travelled...
communication between Rome, the city of the Popes, and Ravenna, the capital of the Exarchate. Since it cut off the DukeofSpoleto from his nominal overlord, the...
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