Aleramo of Montferrat

Aleramo (died before 991) was the Frankish founder of the Aleramici dynasty and marquis of western Liguria. He appears in 933, when King Hugh enfeoffed him near Vercelli, and in 958 Berengar II, whose daughter Gerberga he married, named him marquis. He then sided with Emperor Otto I, who confirmed his march in 967.

His sons Anselm and Otto founded the Savona and Monferrato lines. Legend makes him elope with Otto’s daughter Adelasia on a white and a red horse, winning the land he could ride without rest and naming it Monferrato.