Bertha of Turin

Overview

Title social-status

Countess

Date of Birth

early 11th century

Date of Death

late 11th century

Biography

(See also Genealogical Table(s): 4.)
Bertha was a daughter of Ulric-Manfred, marquis of Turin, and Bertha, daughter of the Otbertine marquis Otbert II. Ulric-Manfred and Bertha had three known daughters, Adelaide of Turin and Susa, Immilla (or Irmingarde or Immula), duchess of Swabia, countess of Meissen, and Bertha.  Bertha was married to Teo, an Aleramid marquis of western Liguria, ancestor of the house of Vasto. They had five sons, Manfred, Anselm, Boniface, Odo, Henry (so named in one of her charters, though it was signed not by Henry but by a William). Teto was dead by 1064. Previté- Orton asumes from the two known documents that Bertha’s inheritance was largely between the lower Belbo and Tanaro; it included Calosso, Castagnole, Loreto and Montaldo (The Early History of the House of Savoy [Cambridge, 1912], 188), from which most of the information in this biography comes.

Letters from Bertha of Turin

A letter to Public (1064, September 30)
A letter to Public (1065, April 22)