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The short letter addressed "to margrave Hugh" reads: "Not without reason do we hold you in the highest esteem, exalting you and your followers with vows and praises, for you, though so busy, deem it worth while to have remembered me. This we value especially, therefore and hence with the utmost
237:(died 915). The march was defined less by geography than by the public institutions controlled by the margrave. Hugh had his own tribunals, mints and army, and the lands he distributed to the church in his march was mostly public land. The basis of Hugh's power was the wealthy cities of the
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that "we are leaving the foremost men of Italy as aid and comfort to you—Hugh of
Tuscany, faithful to us in everything, and Conrad...", and goes on to assure him he would receive "the works and services due" him in the disputed territory.
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from 989 to 996 (as "Hugh II"). He was known for his restoration of the state apparatus in
Tuscany after decades of neglect from various Margraves, whose main interests lay elsewhere. Hugh was also noted for his support of the new
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confidence in you, we pray the more earnestly that your memory of us may not be destroyed. We are pouring forth such prayers as we, absent, are able that you may relieve the present exhausted circumstances of Saint
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to come to Italy to set matters straight at Bobbio. When
Gerbert later became pope as Sylvester II, he summoned a synod at Rome on 13 January 1001, at which Hugh was present along with
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Towards the end of his life he increasingly dissipated marchesal (public) lands on the foundation of monasteries. The increase in gift-giving to monasteries by Hugh and his vassals (
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in the resolution of territorial disputes and his generosity in gifting marchesal (public) lands for the foundation of monasteries of the
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since her husband's death, died. A revolt broke out at Capua, which under
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to the Guidi clan, a family he patronised. He also gave some to the churches of the city, acts confirmed later by the emperors
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in the 17th century as a moral and pious prince. His tomb was said to be the site of celestial visions. The Tuscan poet
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to oversee the courts and finances. In a letter dated 5 August 996 Otto tells
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Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Appennines in the Early Middle Ages
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The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 3: Germany and the Western Empire
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Kurze, W. (1973). "Monasteri e nobiltĂ nella Tuscia altomedioevale".
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Atti del 5. Congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo
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Atti del 5. Congresso internazionale di studi sull'alto medioevo
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Keller, Hagen (1973). "La Marca di Tuscia fino all'anno Mille".
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and the empire, intervened to place Pandulf's youngest son,
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Nobili, M. (1981). "Le famiglie marchionali della Tuscia".
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