Lothar II of Arles, King of Italy

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2. LOTHAR ([926/28]-Turin 22 Nov 950). Lothar is named son of King Ugo and "Aldam…ex Francorum genere Teutonicorum" by Liutprand[711]. "Lautharius" is named as son of "Ugo rex"[712]. "Hugo et Lotharius…reges" name "patris et matris nostræ Teubaldi…et Berte" in their donation to Cluny dated 8 Mar 934[713], which incorrectly implies that Ugo and Lothar were brothers. Joint King of Italy 931. He succeeded his father in 947 as LOTHAR King of Italy. He may have been poisoned by Berengario d´Ivrea, who proclaimed himself King of Italy after Lothar died.

m (947 before 27 Jun) as her first husband, ADELAIS of Burgundy, daughter of RUDOLF II King of Burgundy [Welf] & his wife Berta of Swabia (-Kloster Selz, Alsace 16 Dec 999, bur Kloster Selz). Luitprand names "Adelegidam" daughter of Rudolf & Berta, when recording her marriage to "regi Lothario"[714]. She claimed the kingdom of Italy on the death of her husband, as the daughter of one of the rival claimants for the throne earlier in the century. Willa, wife of Berengario d´Ivrea who had been proclaimed king at Pavia 15 Dec 950, ordered Adelais's imprisonment at Como 20 Apr 951 and "afflicted her with imprisonment and hunger" according to Thietmar[715]. Otto I King of Germany used her ill-treatment as an excuse to invade Italy in Sep 951, although Adelais had succeeded in escaping 20 Aug 951 to Reggio[716]. She married secondly (Pavia [Oct/Nov] 951) as his second wife, Otto I King of Germany. King Otto entered Pavia 23 Sep 951, proclaimed himself King of Italy, and married Adelais as her second husband. The Annalista Saxo records "Adelheidam reginam" as "coniuge rege Lothario" when she married Otto[717]. Flodoard refers to "uxorem quoque Lotharii regis defuncti, filii Hugonis, sororem Chonradi regis" when recording her second marriage[718]. She was crowned Empress at Rome with her husband 2 Feb 962[719]. "Aleidis sororis" is named in the charter of "Chuonradus rex" dated 8 Apr 962[720]. "Adelheidis imperatrix cum filia Athelheidhe abbatissa in Italiam profecta est propter quasdam discordias inter se et filium factas", although it is unclear to whom "filia Athelheidhe" refers unless this is an error for Mathilde[721]. She replaced her daughter-in-law as regent for her grandson King Otto III in 991[722]. The necrology of Fulda records the death "999 17 Kal Ian" of "Adalheid imperatrix"[723]. King Lothar & his wife had one child: