Vitelmo (bishop of Turin)

Vitelmo may have been the son of Vitelmo-Bruno of the Baratonia, a powerful viscount in Turin.^[1] Vitelmo was appointed bishop of Turin by Henry IV. According to the contemporary chronicler, William of Chiusa, Vitelmo paid a large sum of money in return for his office.^[2]

Like many of his predecessors, Vitelmo made donations to the monastery of Santa Maria in Cavour, which had been founded by Bishop Landulf of Turin.^[3]

Vitelmo also continued the conflict with Abbot Benedict II (r.c.1066-1091) of the monastery of San Michele della Chiusa, which had begun under Bishop Cunibert of Turin.^[4]

• William of Chiusa, Vita Benedicti abbatis Clusensis, ed. L. Bethmann, MGH SS 12 (Hannover, 1856).
• F. Savio, Gli antichi vescovi d’Italia. Il Piemonte (Turin, 1899), pp. 335–339.
• A. Tarpino, ‘Tradizione pubblica e radicamento signorile nello sviluppo signorile dei Visconti di Baratonia (secoli XI-XIII),’ Bollettino storico-bibliografico subalpino 79 (1981), 5-65.
• C.W. Previté-Orton, The Early History of the House of Savoy (1000-1233) (Cambridge, 1912).