Arnulf II, Archbishop of Milan
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Arnulf II was Archbishop of Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 from 998 to 1018.

He descended from the noble family of Arsago
Arsago Seprio
Arsago Seprio is a town and comune located in the province of Varese, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.Famous for relevant archaeological remains of a Longobard necropolis as well a Romanic church and baptistery from the 9th and 10th Century AD...

, being the son of Dagibert of Arsago . Among his brothers, Landulf of Arsago was bishop of Brescia
Brescia
Brescia is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 197,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...

 and Lanfrank of Arsago was the grandfather on the mother side of Anselm of Besate.

In 1001 Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, at the time living in Rome
Rome
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, sent him to Byzantium
Byzantium
Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas . The name Byzantium is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion...

 to take a Byzantine princess as his future wife and empress. However Arnulf II, on his journey back to Rome, was reached by the news of the emperor’s death.

When Arduin of Ivrea, in lieau of Henry of Saxony (the future Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II , also referred to as Saint Henry, Obl.S.B., was the fifth and last Holy Roman Emperor of the Ottonian dynasty, from his coronation in Rome in 1014 until his death a decade later. He was crowned King of the Germans in 1002 and King of Italy in 1004...

), dinastic successor of Otto III, was elected King of Italy and crowned in Pavia
Pavia
Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000...

, the traditional site of crowning of the Lombard and Italian kings, Arnulf II stands on the side of Henry. After the defeat of Arduin of Ivrea, Arnulf II went to Pavia to crown Henry of Saxony, on 15 May 1004, new King of Italy.

Sources

  • Arnulfi Liber gestorum recentium, Hg. Claudia Zey, Monumenta Germaniae historica Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim edit 67, Hannover 1994.
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