Editing Adelaide of Italy (section)

===Otto II's era===
In the years following Otto I's death, Adelaide exerted a powerful influence at court. However, Adelaide was in conflict with her daughter-in-law, the Byzantine princess [[Theophanu]], as only one woman could be queen and hold the associated functions and powers at court. Adelaide was able to maintain the title ''imperatrix augusta'' even though Theophanu now also used it. Moreover, Theophanu opposed Adelaide in the use of her dowry lands, which Adelaide wanted to continue to use and donate to ecclesiastical institutions, ensuring her power base. Adelaide had the right to make transactions of her Italian lands as she pleased, but she needed the permission of the emperor to use her Ottonian lands.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Buchinger |first1=Hannah Margarete |title=Adelheid of Burgundy. Representation and memory of an Ottonian Empress and Christian Saint|date=2016|page=11 |url=https://www.academia.edu/35428000 |access-date=6 July 2022}}</ref> Adelaide also sided with her extended kin against Otto II. Wilson compares this action with those of other royal women: "Royal women possessed agency and did not always do the bidding of male relatives. [[Engelberga|Engelberge]] greatly influenced her husband, [[Emperor Louis II]], in his attempts to extend imperial control to southern Italy in the 870s. Matilda’s favouritism for her younger son Heinrich caused Otto I considerable trouble, while Adelaide sided with her extended kin against her own son, Otto II, until he temporarily exiled her to Burgundy in 978. Agency was clearest during regencies, because these lacked formal rules, offering scope for forceful personalities to assert themselves."{{sfn|Wilson|2016|p=315}} After being expelled from court by Otto II in 978, she divided her time between living in [[Italy]] in the royal palace of [[Pavia]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.monasteriimperialipavia.it/pavia-citta-regia/?lang=en|title=Pavia Royal town|work=Monasteri Imperiali Pavia|access-date=29 July 2022}}</ref> and [[Arles]] with her brother [[Conrad I of Burgundy|Conrad I]], King of Burgundy, through whom she was finally reconciled with her son. In 983 (shortly before his death) Otto II appointed her his viceroy in Italy.<ref name="Kleinhenz2004">{{cite book|author=Christopher Kleinhenz|title=Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2CTAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT34|accessdate=29 July 2021|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94880-1|page=4}}</ref>