Editing Liutprand of Cremona (section)

==Bishop of Cremona==
On his return, however, he fell out with Berengar, for which Liutprand avenged himself in his ''Antapodosis'' ("retribution"), and attached himself to Berengar's rival, the emperor [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto I]], who became King of Italy upon the death of Lothair in 950. With Otto I he returned to Italy in 961 and was invested as Bishop of Cremona the following year. At Otto's court, he met [[Recemund]], a [[Umayyad state of Córdoba|Córdoban]] ambassador, who convinced him to write a history of his days (the later ''Antapodosis'', which was dedicated to Recemund). Liutprand was often entrusted with important diplomacy, and, in 963, he was sent to [[Pope John XII]] at the beginning of the quarrel between the Pope and the Emperor over papal allegiance to Berengar's son, [[Adalbert of Ivrea|Adelbert]]. Liutprand attended the [[Synod of Rome (963)]] that deposed John XII in 963, and wrote the only connected narrative of the events.