Burgundian Annexion of Italy
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The King of Burgundy invaded the Kingdom of Italy.
Chronology
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March 922: The period of peace ended in 922, when there was a conspiracy of the greats of the kingdom, including the Marquis of Ivrea, aimed at bringing the King of Burgundy Rudolph to the Italian throne. He went down to Italy, had himself elected King in Pavia and faced Berengario's army at Fiorenzuola d'Arda (or at Fidenza). Berengario was defeated (he miraculously escaped death, hidden under a shield covered with corpses) and had to acknowledge his adversary's royal title. He returned to Verona, brooding his revenge. The opportunity was offered to him when Rodolfo had to return to Burgundy to stop the designs of Duke Burcardo of Swabia on his possessions. He launched a mercenary army of 5,000 Hungarians towards Pavia, who besieged the city. Just during the siege, the launch of flaming projectiles unleashed a fire that completely destroyed the eastern part of the city (the Faramannia), including the Palazzo Regio, and part of the western one; caught between the fire and the pagans, the Pavesi paid an immense price in human lives. The fire of Pavia represented a horrible chapter in the history of those years, and from the outset the responsibility for the events was attributed to Berengario, who had unleashed the Hungarians against the population of the kingdom: for this reason some Veronesi, led by the sculdascio Flamberto, planned a plot against Berengario, who was killed in Verona in 924, pierced from behind while praying during mass.
