LOTHAIR II

died , 950, Turin, Lombardy king of Italy in the chaotic post-Carolingian period who ruled as co-king with his father, Hugh of Provence, from 931 until Hugh's exile and death in 947. Lothair remained in Italy when his father, harassed by the powerful Lombard Berengar II of Ivrea, fled to Provence. Marrying 16-year-old Adelaide, daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy (later wife of Emperor Otto I), in the hope of strengthening his position, Lothair found himself playing the role of a figurehead, while Berengar exercised the real power in Italy. Lothair died in 950, possibly poisoned by Berengar.