Adelperga

Adelperga (b. c. 740, d. after 787) was an Lombard noblewoman, daughter of Desiderius, King of the Lombards, and his wife Ansa. She was the third of four daughters of king Desiderius. Her elder sister Desiderata was a wife of Charlemagne.

Adelperga was tutored by Paul the Deacon. In c. 757, she was married to Arechis II, Duke of Benevento. She remained in contact with Paulus, who at her request wrote his continuation of Eutropius in c. 775. Paul also dedicated to Adelperga his Versus de Annis, an acrostic spelling Adelperga pia.

Adelperga and Arechis had five children,

After the fall of the Kingdom of the Lombards to Charlemagne, Adelperga's parents and sister were exiled to Francia, where they were imprisoned in religious houses. Adelperga and her other sister Liutperga then embarked upon a struggle to regain their patrimony and take revenge upon Charlemagne. Liutperga ultimately brought ruin upon herself and her family by encouraging her husband Tassilo to rebel against Charlemagne, his cousin: Charlemagne discovered Tassilo's plots and confiscated all his goods. Tassilo, Liutperga and their children were then banished to monasteries.

Adelperga cordubensiella

Adelperga is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Phycitinae. It was described by Heinrich, in 1956. It contains the species Adelperga cordubensiella, which was originally described as Heterographis cordubensiella by Ragonot, in 1888. It is known from Argentina.

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