{"slug": "rudolph-ii-of-burgundy", "label": "Rudolph II of Burgundy", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_II_of_Burgundy", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q442257", "qid": "Q442257", "description": "King of Burgundy from 912 to 937", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [880, 937], "span_label": ["880 CE", "937 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-italy-holy-roman-empire", "label": "Kingdom of Italy (Holy Roman Empire)", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "hugh-of-italy", "label": "Hugh of Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "berengar-i-of-italy", "label": "Berengar I of Italy", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lower-burgundy", "label": "Lower Burgundy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-burgundy", "label": "Kingdom of Burgundy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "verona", "label": "Verona", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "king-of-italy", "label": "King of Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "duchy-of-swabia", "label": "Duchy of Swabia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pavia", "label": "Pavia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alps", "label": "Alps", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 880, "year_label": "880 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Rudolph II, Burgundian king and Holy Roman Emperor (d. 937)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372561483#Births", "title": "880", "revid": 1372561483, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 922, "year_label": "922 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, leads a rebellion with the support of the Italian nobles against King Berengar I. He crosses the Alps into Burgundy and invites Rudolph II of Upper Burgundy to invade Italy. Berengar flees again to Verona and Rudolph is crowned King of Italy at Pavia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509630#Europe", "title": "922", "revid": 1341509630, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 923, "year_label": "923 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 29", "text": "July 29 – Battle of Fiorenzuola: Lombard forces led by King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the deposed Emperor Berengar I at Firenzuola (Tuscany). A pact is reached between Rudolph and Berengar, who abdicates the imperial throne and cedes sovereignty over the rest of Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509659#Europe", "title": "923", "revid": 1341509659, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 924, "year_label": "924 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – After having made a new alliance with the Hungarians, the Holy Roman Emperor Berengar I, King of Italy, is assassinated in Verona by one of his guards. Rudolph II, King of Burgundy and a claimant to the throne, takes full control of the Kingdom of Italy, while the office of the Holy Roman Emperor will not be re-created until 38 years later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360748864#April—June", "title": "924", "revid": 1360748864, "section": "Events › April—June"}}, {"year": 925, "year_label": "925 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Rudolph II of Burgundy (who also rules Italy) and his father-in-law, Burchard II of Swabia, lead a Burgundian expeditionary force over the Great St. Bernard Pass to confront Hugh of Provence. They head to the city of Ivrea where Rudolph's forces begin a civil war against Lombard partisans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367671300#Europe", "title": "925", "revid": 1367671300, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 926, "year_label": "926 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "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, returns to Burgundy to protect himself. Hugh has himself crowned King of Italy. and appoints Giselbert I as count palatine of Bergamo (Northern Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509745#Europe", "title": "926", "revid": 1341509745, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 931, "year_label": "931 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Hugh of Provence, king of Italy, cedes Lower Burgundy to Rudolph II, in return for Rudolf's renunciation of all claims to the Italian crown. He receives the imperial crown, and induces the Italian nobility to recognize his son Lothair II as the co-ruler of Lombardia (Regnum Italiae).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364917472#Europe", "title": "931", "revid": 1364917472, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 937, "year_label": "937 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – King Rudolph II of Burgundy dies after a 25-year reign, and is succeeded by his 12-year-old son Conrad I (\"the Peaceful\"). His wife, Queen Bertha, takes effective control of unified Burgundy, transferring its capital to Arles (that Burgundian kingdom was later known from the 12th century as the Kingdom of Arles).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367668437#Europe", "title": "937", "revid": 1367668437, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 937, "year_label": "937 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 11", "text": "July 11 – Rudolph II, king of Burgundy", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367668437#Deaths", "title": "937", "revid": 1367668437, "section": "Deaths"}}]}