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Rudolph II (c. 880 /885 – 12 or 13 July 937) [1] was King of Burgundy from 912 until his death in 937 and King of Italy from 922 to 926. He initially succeeded in Upper Burgundy . In 933, Rudolph acquired the Kingdom of Lower Burgundy ( Provence ) from King Hugh of Italy in exchange for the waiver of his claims to the Italian crown, thereby ...
The Kingdom of Burgundy, known from the 12th century [1]: 140 as the Kingdom of Arles, [a] [2] was a realm established in 933 by the merger of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy under King Rudolf II.
Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy (French, Raoul; also referred to as Ralph), Duke of Burgundy from 921 and King of West Francia from 923 to 936; Rudolph I, King of Burgundy, elected in 888 after the death of Charles the Fat. He died in 912; Rudolph II, King of Burgundy, son of Rudolph I, and ruled (Upper) Burgundy from 912 to 937; also king of ...
His son, Rudolph II succeeded to this new-formed state, which included the French or western part of Switzerland, Franche-Comté, Savoy, Dauphiné, Provence, and the country between the Rhine and the Alps, and was known as the kingdom of Burgundy. He twice attempted the conquest of Italy, and for a period of three years governed that kingdom.
Conrad III, king 1138–1152; Frederick I Barbarossa, king 1152, emperor 1155–1190; Henry VI, king 1190, emperor 1191–1197; Philip of Swabia, king 1198–1208; Otto IV of Brunswick (House of Welf), king 1208–1215, emperor 1209–1215; Frederick II, king 1212, emperor 1220–1250; Conrad IV, king 1237–1254 (until 1250 under his father)
Nevertheless he returned with his new ally King Rudolph II, King of Upper Burgundy, They finally defeated Berengar at the Battle of Firenzuola (923). Even after Rudolph had to cede Italy to Hugh of Provence in 926, the Anscarid fortunes rose in the middle of the century and some margraves became kings of Italy.
Bertha was the daughter of Duke Burchard II of Swabia and his wife Regelinda.In 922, she was married to the Burgundian king Rudolph II. [1] The Welf rulers of Upper Burgundy had campaigned the adjacent Swabian Thurgau region several times, and the marriage was meant as a gesture of reconciliation.
Spring – The Italian nobles turn against King Rudolph II of Burgundy and request that Hugh of Provence, the effective ruler of Lower Burgundy, be elected as king of Italy. Rudolph's father-in-law Duke Burchard II of Swabia is ambushed and killed near Novara, by the henchmen of Archbishop Lambert of Milan. Rudolph, disillusioned by the news ...