Sigifred of Lucca

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

Donizo, the 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

References

• Donizo of Canossa, Vita Mathildis in Donizonis Vita Mathildis, ed. L. Bethmann, MGH SS 12 (Hannover, 1856), pp. 348-409, accessible online at: Monumenta Germaniae Historica (in Latin)
• M. G. Bertolini, 'Note di genealogia e storia Canossiana,' in: I ceti dirigenti in Toscana nell'età precomunale, Atti del 1º Convegno di studi sulla storia dei ceti dirigenti in Toscana - Firenze - 2 dicembre 1978, (Pisa, 1981), pp. 110-149.
• M.G. Bertolini, 'Adalberto Azzo di Canossa,' in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 1 (1960)

External links

• Siegfried I, Herr von Canossa

Notes

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.