Fresco by Giacomo Jaquerio in the Castello della Manta (1420), meant to represent both Manfred I and Godfrey of Bouillon as one of the Nine Worthies[1]
Manfred I (died 1175) was the founder and first ruler of the marquisate of Saluzzo from 1142 until his death.[2]
Manfred was the eldest of seven sons of Bonifacio del Vasto, the ruler of scattered holdings between Savona and the Tanaro,[a] and Agnes of Vermandois.[3] He is first recorded in a document of 1123. After Bonifacio's death in 1125, his lands were ruled jointly by the brothers, but in 1142 they divided them up. Manfred took most of the lands between the Alps, the Po and the Stura. His new lordship was larger than his brother's and better positioned to become a true principality.[2] It only came to be known as the marquisate of Saluzzo after his death. In his own life he used the title of marquis without a territorial designation, or else "marquis of Vasto" (Latin marchio de Vasto).[2][4] He made his the strategically important castle of Saluzzo in the centre of his domain his seat.[2][5]
In 1127, Manfred founded the monastery of Staffarda. He was an ally of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, recognizing him as his suzerain and trying to maintain peace between him and the Lombard cities.[2] Four diploma attest to his periodic attendance at Barbarossa's court at Milan (1161), Turin (1162) and Rimini (1167).[6][4]
Manfred married Eleonora, the daughter of Judge Gonario II of Arborea.[7] He was succeeded by his son Manfred II.[2]
^Florence Bouchet, "Héroïnes et mémoire familiale dans le Chevalier errant de Thomas de Saluces", Clio. Femmes, genre, histoire30 (2009).
^ abcdefMaddalena Moglia (2017). "Saluzzo, marchesi di". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 89: Rovereto–Salvemini (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
^Previté-Orton 1912, p. 210.
^ abArmando Tallone, Regesto dei marchesi di Saluzzo (1091–1340) (Pinerolo, 1906), nos. 37, 40, 44, 51.
^Manfrédo I marchese di Saluzzo, Enciclopedia on line, Treccani. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
^Charles William Previté-Orton, The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000–1233) (Cambridge University Press, 1912), p. 332.
^Riccardo Rao, "Fra comune e marchese. Dinamiche aristocratiche a Vercelli (XII-XIII secolo)", Studi Storici4, 1 (2003), pp. 43–93. JSTOR 20567183
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