Margraviate of Tuscany
| March of Tuscany | ||||||||||
| Marca di Tuscia | ||||||||||
| State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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 The March of Tuscany in the political context of Italy around AD 1000
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| Capital |
Lucca (to 1057) Florence (1057–1116) San Miniato |
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| Government | Feudal monarchy | |||||||||
| Margrave of Tuscany | ||||||||||
| • | 812–813 | Boniface I (first) | ||||||||
| • | 847–884 | Adalbert I | ||||||||
| • | 931–936 | Boso of Arles | ||||||||
| • | 1076–1115 | Matilda | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Adalbert I granted margraviate | 846 | ||||||||
| • | Granted to Boso | 931 | ||||||||
| • | Rainier deposed in favour of House of Canossa | 1027 | ||||||||
| • | Formation of Tuscan League | 1197 | ||||||||
| • | Claimed by Papacy | 1198 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Italy
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The March of Tuscany was a frontier march of the Kingdom of Italy and the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages.
Located in northwestern central Italy, it bordered the Papal States to the south, the Ligurian Sea to the west and Lombardy to the north. It comprised a collection of counties, largely in the valley of the Arno River, originally centered on Lucca.
The march was a Carolingian creation, a successor of the Lombard duchy of Tuscia. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Tuscia from 568 had been part of the Italian Kingdom of the Lombards (Langobardia Major) until, in 754, the Frankish kings intervened in the conflict with Pope Stephen II. By the Donation of Pepin, the southern part of Tuscia around Viterbo became part of the newly established Papal States, while the northern part (or Lormbard Tuscany) developed into the Imperial March of Tuscany after Charlemagne had finally conquered the Lombard kingdom in 773/74. Lombardy proper became the nucleus of the Imperial kingdom of Italy, together with the marches of Tuscany and Verona.
The first Tuscan margrave was Adalbert I, who was granted that title in 846. Before him, his father and grandfather, Count Boniface I of Lucca and Boniface II, probably of Bavarian origin, had controlled most of the counties of the region and had held higher titles as well, such as Prefect of Corsica or Duke of Lucca. The Bonifacii held the march until 931. During the late ninth and early tenth century, the support of the margraves of Tuscany was instrumental for any candidate intent on becoming King of Italy.
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