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Sigifred of Lucca (also Sigefred, Siegfried) (died after 940) was a Lombard nobleman and the progenitor of the House of Canossa.

Donizo, the 12th-century biographer of the Canossa dynasty, refers to Sigifred as coming from ‘the county of Lucca’ (de comitatu Lucensis).[1] Little is known about Sigifred. Although he was from Lucca, he was probably not count of Lucca. He moved from Tuscany to Emilia-Romagna c.924-930 when Hugh of Italy endowed him with lands around Parma.[2] Sigifred also gained control of lands around Brescia.

With his wife, whose identity is not known, Sigifred had at least three sons:[3]

  • Adalbert Atto of Canossa
  • Sigifred, progenitor of the Baratti dynasty
  • Gerard, progenitor of the Guiberti dynasty
  1. ^ Donzio, Vita Mathildis, I.1, vv. 97-98
  2. ^ Bertolini, ‘Adalberto Azzo,’ p. 165
  3. ^ On Sigifred’s sons, see Donizo, Vita Mathildis, I.1, vv. 114-119; Bertolini, ‘Note di genealogia,’ esp. pp. 110ff.

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