- Anscar of Ivrea
Anscar I (died March 902) was the
margrave of Ivrea from 888 [Wickham, 178. The [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORTHERN%20ITALY%20900-1100.htm#_Toc145061938 Foundation for Medieval Genealogy website] gives the date of his institution as margrave as1 December 898 , which would have marked it as one of Berengar's first acts as king. This is flatly contradicted by Wickham.] to his death. From 877 or 879, he was the count ofOscheret inBurgundy . He supportedGuy III of Spoleto for the throne of France after the deposition ofCharles the Fat in 887, but after Guy's failed attempt and the coronation ofOdo, Count of Paris , he returned with Guy across theAlps , where the duke was electedKing of Italy . In gratitude, he created theMarch of Ivrea in the northeast and invested his Burgundian supporter.Anscar was a counsellor of
Boso of Provence and brother ofFulk, Archbishop of Rheims , who strongly supported theCarolingian dynasty in France. With Fulk, he probably invited Guy to France. Anscar fought on behalf of Guy's kingship in Italy. He battledArnulf of Carinthia during the latter's invasion of 894 and he supported Guy's son Lambert after Guy's death that year. In 896, he was one of the few in the north to oppose Arnulf second invasion. After Lambert's death, he supported Berengar of Friuli as king and became his chief counsellor.Anscar's wife was unknown, but he had only one son, Adalbert, through whom he was the progenitor of a dynasty, the
Anscarids .Notes
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*Wickham, Chris. "Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society 400-1000". MacMillan Press: 1981.
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