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The Unruochings ( Italian : Unrochingi  ; French : Unrochides ; German : Unruochinger ) were a Frankish noble family who established themselves in Italy . The family is named for the first member to come to prominence, Unruoch II of Friuli ( floruit early 9th century).

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2-599: The family members held various titles in northern Italy, including Margrave and Duke of Friuli , one of the lordships established on the eastern Marches of the Frankish Empire . The March of Friuli was considerably larger than modern Friuli , covering much of the modern Veneto and as far west as the Province of Brescia in Lombardy . The family's main landholdings, however, were in modern France , north of

4-483: The River Seine , and southern Belgium . The family monastery , the centre of their power, was at Cysoing , near Tournai . King Berengar I of Italy belonged to this family. Berengar left no male heirs, but the descendants of his daughter Gisela and Adalbert I of Ivrea including their son Berengar II of Italy , Berengar II's son Adalbert , and Adalbert's son Otto-William, Duke of Burgundy , are counted among

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