Boniface III, Margrave of Tuscany

Miniature of Boniface from the early twelfth-century manuscript of Donizo's Vita Mathildis (Codex Vat. Lat. 4922, fol. 28v.). The script down the side reads: Te redimat Sothér Bonifaci marchio duxque (May the Saviour redeem you Boniface, duke and margrave).

Boniface III (also Boniface IV or Boniface of Canossa) (c. 985 – 6 May 1052), son of Tedald of Canossa and the father of Matilda of Tuscany, was the most powerful north Italian prince of his age. By inheritance he was count (or lord) of Brescia, Canossa, Ferrara, Florence, Lucca, Mantua, Modena, Pisa, Pistoia, Parma, Reggio, and Verona from 1007 and, by appointment, margrave of Tuscany[1] from 1027 until his assassination in 1052.

  1. ^ Boniface's title (dux et marchio) has been given as duke of Lucca, or marquis of Mantua and Ferrara.