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March of Ivrea

888 CE – 1015 CE (approx.) · capital Ivrea

March in north-western Italy whose Anscarid rulers, Berengar II and Arduin, both seized the Italian crown.

Origins

Around 888–891 Guy of Spoleto, contending for the Italian crown, created a march around Ivrea for his Burgundian ally Anscar, guarding the Alpine passes of the Aosta valley and the western Po plain. Anscar's descendants, the Anscarids, held it for more than a century.

Rule and society

The margraves of Ivrea controlled a large area of Piedmont and Lombardy. Anscar's grandson Berengar II, after exile in Germany, made himself King of Italy in 950 with his son Adalbert, until Otto I forced him to submit in 952 and deposed him in 961. A later margrave, Arduin, was elected king in 1002 in opposition to the German emperor Henry II.

Decline and legacy

Henry II defeated Arduin, who retired to the monastery of Fruttuaria and died in 1015. The march was then broken up, its lands divided among bishops and other families, notably the Arduinici of Turin.

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). March of Ivrea. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/march-of-ivrea
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