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unusual facts about Duke of Spoleto


Via Cassia

When the incursions of Faroald, the Lombard Duke of Spoleto, cut the Via Flaminia, the lifeline between Rome and Ravenna, the Via Amerina was improved and fortified at intervals, works that represented some of the last road-building carried out in Italy in Late Antiquity.


Mauring, Duke of Spoleto

He succeeded his father in Brescia as count (Brixiae comes) in 822 and, following the brief reign of Adelard, in Spoleto as duke in August 824.

Steingaden

Until the 1803 secularisation of Bavaria, Steingaden belonged to the Steingaden Abbey, established in 1147 by Welf VI, Margrave of Tuscany and Duke of Spoleto, and third son of Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria.


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