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Rh of her enemies, or whether such an order appeared suspicious to her, she only made the more haste to join him, and thus disconcerted their projects. Count Campelli, in his history of Spoleto, has taken occasion, from this fact, to suppose, that Angelberga was repudiated by Lewis II. in order to marry this mistress, daughter of the duke of that principality; and, that she became a nun. But the marriage of Lewis and Angelberga was never cancelled; and the daughter of the duke of Spoleto could not have been the person, as she must have been more than fifty years old at the time.

After staying more than a year at Capua, the emperor quitted it, in 879, and passed into Lombardy, where his presence was necessary, leaving the empress and her daughter in that city. The bishop, count Landulph, who, by his flatteries had obtained much influence over the minds of both, persuaded her to put the prince of Salerno, to whom he did homage for Capua, which he had usurped, in prison; from whence he did not effect his deliverance, till he had paid the empress a large sum of money.

She soon after rejoined her husband; and, in 874, built, at Plaisance, a monastery, which afterwards became one of the most famous in all Italy. In 875, Lewis died at Brescia, and Charles the Bald, king of France, succeeded him, instead of his elder brother, Lewis, of Germany. The nobles of Italy held a council at Pavia, at which Angelberga assisted, and took the strange resolution of offering the crown secretly to both kings at once. It is to be supposed, that she had no share in forming this resolution, as she certainly had no reason to be friendly to Charles the Bald.

Angelberga had obtained of her husband the command of the monastery of St. Julia, in Brescia, in which, being