10 Most Evil People of the 9th Century CE

Key Facts

Other names	Berengar of Friuli
Born	845
Location	Pavia
Bloodline	Eberard
Married	Yes
Children
Position	Margave of Friuli (874-896), King of Italy (887-891)
Died	924

Source of Facts and Important Announcement

Status	Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification	Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts	Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.

Background

Born to Unroch into the lesser Lombard family of Eberard, who successfully sought claim to the region of Fruili upon the invasion and conquest of Italy by the massive army of Aghlabid dynasty Emir Muhammad I Abul-Abbas (841-856).

Friuli remains a recognized region today of northeastern Italy bounded on the west by the Livenza river, on the north by the Carnic Alps, on the east by the Julian Alps and the Timavo river and on the south by the Adriatic Sea.

Under Charlemagne, the former pagan Lombard Dukes were stripped of their titles and their castles and fiefs disbanded by 810. Similar to his father (Pepin), who had executed the treacherous royal Lombard family, Charlemagne also had most of the main Lombard dukes and male heirs executed.

However, upon the successful and complete invasion of Italy by the Muslim forces of Muhammad I Abul-Abbas (841-856) in 847, some of the survivors from lower branches of these families sought to gain power, petitioning the representatives of the Emir. The Eberard is one example of these pagan and satanic families that rose to prominence thanks to their Islamic overlords from 847-872.

Given that the Eberard were granted status as vassals, they must have converted to Islam as no vassals of the Aghlabid dynasty Emir would have been permitted to be a pagan.

In most history accounts they are falsely claimed as Frankish -- an absurdity on account the Franks dissolving the Lombard noble titles and the Muslim conquest of Italy that happens to "magically" occur at the same time as the family rise to power.

Thus the complete geneology of the Eberard's (also known as Unrochings) must be viewed with complete skepticism as they almost certainly descend from nothing more than the surviving lower warrior classes of Lombards. Considering they were almost certainly Muslim converts, this deliberate re-writing of history is understandable, consider less than 150 years later they openly rejected their Islamic faith (as Apostates) and claimed to be Catholic.

Under the Muslims, Unroch and the family prospered. However, in 871 Frankish Emperor Louis II invaded Italy with his army and deposed the Muslims and their loyal Lombard vassals. In a feeble attempt to remain in power, a number of Lombard vassals "switched sides" and even went to the extent of claiming conversion to Catholicism, but with little effect.

Unroch was captured by 872 and finally executed by 874. However, Berendar and some of his family managed to escape from being captured and upon the death of Louis II, the various Lombard militia rose up in revolt across Italy, seizing back their castles, cities and lands.

Once the Frankish occupation forces and their Pope Adrian II was captured and killed (by 876), the most powerful of the pagan Lombard militia leaders began to fight amongst themselves for the title of "King of the Lombards". The most powerful enemies of Berengar were the pagan warlords of Capua and Benevento, the Tuscan warlords and the warlords of Spoleto.

The Civil War between the tribes lasted for ten years until 887 when Berengar defeated Guy of Spoleto and claimed the crown of the Lombards, making his capital Pavia the capital once more of the Lombard kingdom.

However, his control and claim of the iron crown was not to last long. In 891, Guy of Spoleton convinced the count of Tusculum to crown him not only King of the Lombards, King of Italy but Emperor.

To make matters worse, the Magyars began their invasions into Italy from the north and East starting around 898/899. As a result Berengar was forced to defend his own lands for the remainder of his life. He died around 924.


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