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When he was returning to his own domain, that is to Pavia, he arrived at the fortress of Piacenza, which is thirty miles from Pavia. And there he died, but he had begotten a son, named Adelbert, who married a woman, the great Bertha, and from her he begot the aforementioned king, Hugh. And after the great Lothair died, Louis, the son of Louis, coming from great Francia, took Pavia. And he was uncrowned. But later he came to Verona, to the fortress, which is 120 miles from Pavia, and when he arrived there, the men of that fortress rose up against him, and seizing him, they blinded him. And then Berengar, the grandfather of the present Berengar, took power, and entering into Rome he was crowned. And after this many people sent a message to Rudolf, who was in Burgundy, saying: "Come here, and we will give you the kingdom and we will kill Berengar." And he came from Burgundy towards the region of Pavia, and half the people were with Berengar, and the rest with Rudolf. And having fought, Berengar won the first battle, and fighting again, Rudolf won. And the people of Berengar fled, and Berengar, left alone, made himself out to be dead, and fell among the dead, covering himself with his shield, but he had his foot outside. And one of Rudolf's soldiers, coming, struck him on the foot with a spear, but he did not move at all; and since he did not move, he left him as supposedly being dead. But Rudolf's people did not know that he was Berengar. And when the war stopped, Berengar arose and came to his palace alone, and again took hold of the kingdom, and he fought Rudolf and defeated him. And after this they came to an agreement with each other, and they divided the country in two; and the one took one part of the country, and the other the other. And Rudolf was under the counsel and authority of Berengar. And after this, three marquises came from Burgundy to Pavia to drive out those in power and to take power themselves; and these were: Hugh of Taillefer and Boso and Hugh, Boso's brother, the aforementioned most noble king. And he came with a sufficient number of people. And Berengar, having learned of this, prepared himself, and went out to meet him for war, and besieging them, he distressed them with famine, and he ordered his people not to kill anyone, but wherever they captured one of them, they should cut off his nose and both his ears and release him, which indeed they did. When, therefore, the aforementioned three leaders saw this, taking up the holy gospels in their hands unshod, they came to Berengar, asking for pardon and swearing never again to come here until the end of his life, and then he allowed them to go away to their own country. But later, when Berengar went away to Verona, Flambert, his god-relative, killed him, and then Rudolf took the entire kingdom. And after this the people of the whole country sent a message to Burgundy to Hugh, the aforementioned king, saying: "Come, and we will give you the country." And when he came, the people acclaimed him, and led him to the palace, and established him as king. And to Rudolf they said: "Go away with your wealth, if you wish, to your country, or, if you wish, elsewhere." And he went away to Burgundy, to his country, and held a sufficient number of people there. And when he died, Hugh, the aforementioned king, went away to Burgundy, and the wife of Rudolf, who was also named Bertha, he took as his wife. And her daughter, named Adelaide, he gave to Lothair, his son, who is now king of Italy. And she who came up to Constantinople and was joined to Romanos the Porphyrogennetos, son of Constantine, the Christ-loving master, that is, the daughter of the same renowned king Hugh, who was named

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ἡνίκα ὑπέστρεφεν εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἐξουσίαν, ἤγουν εἰς Πάπιαν, κατήντησεν εἰς τὸ κάστρον Πλαζέντα, τὸ ὂν ἀπὸ τριάκοντα μιλίων τῆς Παπίας. Κἀκεῖσε μὲν οὗτος τελευτᾷ, ἔτεκεν δὲ υἱόν, ὀνόματι Ἀδέλβερτον, ὃς ἔγημεν γυναῖκα τὴν μεγάλην Βέρταν, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῆς τὸν προρρηθέντα ῥῆγα, τὸν Οὔγωνα ἔτεκεν. Μετὰ δὲ τὸ τελευτῆσαι τὸν μέγαν Λωθάριον Λοδόϊκος, ὁ ἴδιος τοῦ Λοδοΐκου, ἀπὸ τῆς μεγάλης Φραγγίας ἐλθών, ἐκράτησεν τὴν Πάπιαν. Καὶ ἦν μὲν ἄστεπτος. Ὕστερον δὲ ἦλθεν εἰς Βερῶναν, εἰς τὸ κάστρον, τὸ ὂν ἀπὸ ρκʹ μιλίων τῆς Παπίας, καὶ ἐλθόντος αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖσε, ἐπανέστησαν αὐτῷ οἱ τοῦ αὐτοῦ κάστρου, καὶ κρατήσαντες ἐτύφλωσαν. Καὶ τότε ἐκράτησεν Βεριγγέριος, ὁ πάππος τοῦ νυνὶ Βεριγγέρη, καὶ εἰσελθὼν ἐν Ῥώμῃ ἐστέφθη. Καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἐδηλοποίησεν λαὸς πολὺς τῷ Ῥοδούλφῳ εἰς Βεργώνιαν ὄντι, λέγοντες, ὅτι· "Ἐλθὲ ἐνταῦθα, καὶ παραδίδομέν σοι τὸ ῥηγᾶτον καὶ ἀποκτενοῦμεν τὸν Βεριγγέριον." Ὁ δὲ ἦλθεν ἀπὸ Βεργώνιαν πρὸς τὰ μέρη τῆς Παπίας, καὶ ὁ μὲν ἥμισυς λαὸς ἦν μετὰ τοῦ Βεριγγέρη, ὁ δὲ λοιπὸς μετὰ τοῦ Ῥοδούλφου. Καὶ πολεμήσαντες, ἐνίκησεν ὁ Βεριγγέρης τὸν πρῶτον πόλεμον, καὶ πάλιν πολεμήσαντες, ἐνίκησεν ὁ Ῥοδοῦλφος. Καὶ ἔφυγεν ὁ λαὸς τοῦ Βεριγγέρη, καὶ μόνος καταλειφθεὶς ὁ Βεριγγέρης ἐποίησεν ἑαυτὸν ὡς τεθνεῶτα, καὶ ἔπεσεν μέσον τῶν τεθνεώτων, σκεπάσας αὑτὸν μετὰ τῆς δόρκας αὐτοῦ, τὸν δὲ πόδα αὐτοῦ εἶχεν ἔξω. Ἐλθὼν δὲ εἷς ἐκ τῶν στρατιωτῶν τοῦ Ῥοδούλφου, δέδωκεν αὐτῷ μετὰ μεναύλου εἰς τὸν πόδα, αὐτὸς δὲ τὸ σύνολον οὐκ ἐσαλεύθη· τοῦ δὲ μὴ σαλευθέντος, ἀφίησεν αὐτὸν ὡς δῆθεν νεκρὸν ὄντα. Ἠγνόει δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ῥοδούλφου λαός, ὅτι ὁ Βεριγγέρης ἐστίν. Καὶ παύσαντος τοῦ πολέμου, ἠγέρθη ὁ Βεριγγέρης καὶ ἦλθεν εἰς τὸ παλάτιον αὐτοῦ μόνος, καὶ πάλιν ἐκράτησεν τῆς βασιλείας, καὶ ἐπολέμησεν τὸν Ῥοδοῦλφον καὶ ἐνίκησεν αὐτόν. Μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο συνεβιβάσθησαν εἰς ἀλλήλους, καὶ ἐμερίσθησαν τὴν χώραν εἰς δύο· καὶ ὁ μὲν εἷς ἀνελάβετο τὸ ἓν μέρος τῆς χώρας, ὁ δὲ ἕτερος τὸ ἕτερον. Ἦν δὲ ὁ Ῥοδοῦλφος ὑπὸ τὴν βουλὴν καὶ ἐξουσίαν τοῦ Βεριγγέρη. Καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἦλθον ἀπὸ Βεργώνιαν τρεῖς μαρκήσιοι πρὸς Πάπιαν τοῦ ἐκδιῶξαι τοὺς κρατοῦντας καὶ κρατῆσαι αὐτοί· ἦσαν δὲ οὗτοι· Οὔγων ὁ Ταλιαφέρνου καὶ Βόζος καὶ Οὔγων, ὁ ἀδελφὸς τοῦ Βόζου, ὁ προρρηθεὶς εὐγενέστατος ῥήξ. Ἦλθεν δὲ μετὰ λαοῦ ἱκανοῦ. Καὶ μαθὼν ὁ Βεριγγέρης ἡτοιμάσθη, καὶ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς συνάντησιν αὐτοῦ πρὸς πόλεμον, καὶ παρακαθίσας ἐστενοχώρησεν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ λιμοῦ, καὶ ὥρισεν τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ τοῦ μὴ φονεύειν τινά, ἀλλ' ὅπου ἂν κρατήσωσί τινα ἐξ αὐτῶν, κόπτωσιν τὴν ῥῖνα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ δύο ὠτία καὶ ἀπολύωσιν, ὃ δὴ καὶ ἐποίουν. Θεασάμενοι οὖν τοῦτο αἱ προρρηθεῖσαι τρεῖς κεφαλαί, ἄραντες ἀνυπόδετοι τὰ θεῖα εὐαγγέλια εἰς τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, ἦλθον πρὸς τὸν Βεριγγέρην, αἰτούμενοι συγχώρησιν καὶ ὀμνύοντες τοῦ μηκέτι ἐλθεῖν ἐνθάδε μέχρι τέλους ζωῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τότε εἴασεν αὐτοὺς ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν χώραν. Ὕστερον δὲ τοῦ Βεριγγέρη ἀπελθόντος εἰς Βερῶναν, ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτὸν Φαλεμβέρτος, ὁ σύντεκνος αὐτοῦ, καὶ τότε ἐκράτησεν ὅλον τὸ ῥηγᾶτον ὁ Ῥοδοῦλφος. Καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο ἐμήνυσεν ὁ λαὸς τῆς χώρας ὅλης εἰς Βεργώνιαν τῷ Οὔγωνι, τῷ προρρηθέντι ῥηγί, λέγοντες, ὅτι· "Ἐλθέ, καὶ παραδίδομέν σοι τὴν χώραν." Καὶ ἐλθόντος αὐτοῦ, ἐπῆρεν αὐτὸν ὁ λαός, καὶ ἀπήγαγον εἰς τὸ παλάτιον, καὶ ἀπεκατέστησεν αὐτὸν ῥῆγα. Τὸν δὲ Ῥοδοῦλφον εἶπον, ὅτι· "Ἄπελθε μετὰ τοῦ πλούτου σου, θέλῃς,εἰς τὴν χώραν σου, θέλῃς, ἀλλαχοῦ." Ὁ δὲ ἀπῆλθεν εἰς Βεργώνιαν, εἰς τὴν χώραν αὐτοῦ, καὶ κατεῖχεν ἐκεῖσε λαὸν ἱκανόν. Καὶ τελευτήσαντος αὐτοῦ, ἀπῆλθεν Οὔγων, ὁ προρρηθεὶς ῥήξ, εἰς Βεργώνιαν, καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ Ῥοδούλφου, ἥτις καὶ Βέρτα ὠνομάζετο, ἔλαβεν εἰς γυναῖκα. Τὴν δὲ θυγατέρα αὐτῆς, ὀνόματι Ἀδέλεσαν, δέδωκεν Λωθαρίῳ, τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ, τῷ νυνὶ ὄντι Ἰταλίας ῥηγί. Ἡ δὲ ἀνελθοῦσα ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ συναφθεῖσα Ῥωμανῷ τῷ πορφυρογεννήτῳ, υἱῷ Κωνσταντίνου, τοῦ φιλοχρίστου δεσπότου, ἤτοι ἡ θυγάτηρ τοῦ αὐτοῦ περιβλέπτου ῥηγὸς Οὔγωνος, ἣ ὠνομάζετο