Alberic II of Spoleto, Ruler of Rome

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Most famously perhaps, Alberic was one of the three great leaders of the Christian League which defeated the Saracens at the Battle of the Garigliano in June 915.

Alberic married Marozia Senatrix of Rome in 909 in Italy. Marozia (daughter of Theophylact Count of Tusculum Count of Tusculum and Theodora) was born in CA 890; died in CA 937 in Rome, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The alleged mistriss of Pope Sergius III. The bastard son, two grandsons, two great grandsons, and one great great grandson of Marozia—a rare genealogy—were seated in the Chair of St. Peter." Pope John XIII was her nephew, the offspring of her younger sister Theodora. From this description, the term "pornocracy" has become associated with the effective rule in Rome of Theodora and her daughter Marozia through male surrogates.

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The Tusculum popes were either descendants of or aligned with Theophylact and his family from Latium, near Rome. His descendants were so powerful in tenth-century Italy that the were known as the "pope makers." Through the sexual exploits of his daughters, Theodora and Marozia, the family controlled the papacy for much of the tenth century and the first half of the eleventh century.

Because of these women, this era has been called the "Pornocracy."

Theophylact married Theodora. Theodora and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]